Education
At least 200 people turned out for the Shorefront Y’s Sixth Annual Walk for Autism. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)At least 200 people turned out Sunday morning on the Coney Island Boardwalk for the Shorefront Y’s Sixth Annual Walk for Autism. Participants gathered outside the New York
Announcements
Autism affects people of all ethnicities and socio-economic statuses. And in the culturally diverse neighborhoods of Southern Brooklyn, it’s essential for parents to be able to detect symptoms early in a child’s life. At NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island, early diagnosis for autism is a number one priority.
Announcements
Autism affects people of all ethnicities and socio-economic statuses. And in the culturally diverse neighborhoods of Southern Brooklyn, it’s essential for parents to be able to detect symptoms early in a child’s life. At NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island, early diagnosis for autism is a number one priority.
Bensonhurst
(Photo: livemoore [https://instagram.com/p/71H1TEBlS8/] / Instagram)Cops dove into the water in Coney Island Saturday to rescue an autistic teenager who ran out of a Gravesend high school, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nypd-cops-rescue-autistic-boy-water-coney-island-article-1.2612544] . The 14-year-old had ducked out a back door
Central Brooklyn
Danna Jellinek Ozeri. (Courtesy of Nurit Ozeri)“Come up! Come up!,” says Nurit Ozeri, welcoming me into her Ocean Parkway home. She bolts up the stairs to the second floor and swings open the door — which has a small “Shalom Y’all” sign at eye level. This welcoming moment connects
City Kid Corner
Finding the right school for any kid is tough, but toss special needs into the mix, and the task suddenly becomes ten times more difficult. For a select few, their zoned school is a perfect fit. For others, a specialized program that gives children both the academic and developmental supports
City Kid Corner
Fernando MengoniThree weeks ago I sat in the bathroom and cried. It was the only place to find sanctuary in our 800-square-foot Brooklyn apartment. Toys crashed against the wall, and wild screams echoed on the other side of the door, as my husband calmly tried to quell the meltdown raging
1825 bath ave
Photo courtesy of HeartShare ["http://www.heartshare.org/programs/early-childhood-services/photoessay.html] The city’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten expansion is having an unintentional consequence — it’s drawing away special education teachers from preschools run by community-based organizations (CBOs) serving children with special needs. HeartShare Human Services [http://www.heartshare.org/
autism
Family, friends and authorities are searching for Brian Gewirtz, a 20-year-old Marine Park man who went missing from his Coleman Street home on Tuesday. Gewirtz, described as a white man, 5’5″ tall and weighing 130 pounds, is autistic and needs medication to treat his diabetes, according to information distributed
advocacy
John Cosentino and his mother. (Source: Anthony Cosentino via Brooklyn Eagle)A Bensonhurst couple is fighting to save the last-resort home of their severely autistic son, who lives in one of the state’s few remaining housing facilities for the developmentally disabled that is now slated for closure. Anthony and
autism
Previous walk. (Source: Shorefront Y)The following is a press release from the Shorefront Y: This Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., the Brooklyn Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (BASDI) & the Shorefront YM-YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach will host its Fourth Annual Walk for Autism. The annual Walk
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Konstantina and Eleana Vellios (via Facebook)Sheepshead Bay mom Konstantina Vellios, 35, is trying to get to the bottom of why her 14-year-old autistic daughter got off the school bus shirtless and scratched up, but the bus operator and the school she came from have been short on answers. The
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French and English speaking students learn side-by-side in the city’s French dual-language programs. P.S. 20 will be the eighth school to implement this program. (Photo by Jonas Cuenin [http://www.jonascuenin.com])Native French and English-speaking kindergarteners will learn together in one classroom at P.S. 20 [http:
autism
Participants in this year’s Autism Walk.When the Southern Brooklyn community wants to raise awareness for a good cause, they know how to do it – even in stormy weather. On Sunday, May 19, approximately 170 Southern Brooklyn locals gathered at the New York Aquarium to walk 1.2 miles
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Source: YAI.orgSeveral autistic and developmentally disabled people who previously lived in group homes in Sheepshead Bay are among the hundreds left displaced after Superstorm Sandy took a heavy toll on their facilities. YAI Network, an organization which manages several such homes in the area, announced today that two of
autism
A New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services Missing Adult Alert has been issued for the disappearance of Khalik Phillip, male, age 19, from Brooklyn. He was last seen near Coyle Street and Avenue V in Brooklyn wearing an orange sleeveless sweatshirt and blue jeans. Khalik suffers from Autism.