Announcements
Photo via Flickr Creative Commons.MILL BASIN – About 30 people were injured after a school bus collided with a car this morning. At about 9:20 a.m., a school bus, which was carrying adults with special needs, crashed into a car that was going in the opposite direction at
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of Gov. John Kasich’s campaign.Fresh off his town hall at the Bay Ridge Manor [/33572/#.VwwIIRMrIU0] with talk show host Montel WIlliams, Ohio governor and GOP presidential contender John Kasich will return to Brooklyn to meet and greet with members of Borough Park’s Orthodox Jewish
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
Kids & Family
New York City is overflowing with incredible camp options [http://citykidcamp.com/], but when you’re searching for a special needs summer experience, the choices are few and far between. Once again, though, the Borough of Kings does not disappoint. Check out our list of five special needs camps that
Kids & Family
New York City is overflowing with incredible camp options [http://citykidcamp.com/], but when you’re searching for a special needs summer experience, the choices are few and far between. Once again, though, the Borough of Kings does not disappoint. Check out our list of five special needs camps that
Central Brooklyn
New York City is overflowing with incredible camp options [http://citykidcamp.com/], but when you’re searching for a special needs summer experience, the choices are few and far between. Once again, though, the Borough of Kings does not disappoint. Check out our list of five special needs camps that
City Kid Corner
Courtesy Trisha Shears [http://www.freeimages.com/photo/crayons-1426571]“Your son meets the diagnostic criteria [http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html] for autism spectrum disorder.” I often wondered what my reaction would be after hearing those words. Sadness? Anxiety? Anger? All of the above? To some extent, yes,
Education
A classroom at the Warbasse Nursery School. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)For more than 46 years the Warbasse Nursery School [http://www.warbassenurseryschool.com/] in Coney Island has provided early childhood education for children in southern Brooklyn. Now, the program is in danger of disappearing after the lease was
camps
Photo courtesy Park Slope Day Camp [https://www.facebook.com/ParkSlopeDayCamp/photos/a.809360569082575.1073741836.158149477537024/809362079082424/?type=3&theater] Parenting in New York City is a roller coaster, isn’t it? One minute we’re talking blizzards [/kids/5-fun-winter-activities-that-dont-involve-building-a-snowman/], snowmen [/art-music/the-snowman-cometh-15-post-blizzard-snow-sculptures/], and soups [/?s=easy+weekday+meals]
Events
Courtesy Theatre Development Fund [https://www.facebook.com/TheatreDevelopmentFund/photos/a.10153165205267844.1073741863.27723672843/10153165209007844/?type=3&theater] With temperatures freezing outside, parents across the five boroughs are desperately seeking fun activities for the kids that take place inside. Finding just the right spot can be especially tough, though,
Events
BY CHRISTINE BUSH With temperatures freezing outside, parents across the five boroughs are desperately seeking fun activities for the kids that take place inside. Finding just the right spot can be especially tough, though, when your child is on the autism spectrum, has sensory processing disorder, or countless other special
Candido Brown
Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].The latest controversy to enter the discourse over New York City’s charter schools comes courtesy of the New York Times, which ran a story [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/nyregion/at-a-success-academy-charter-school-singling-out-pupils-who-have-got-to-go.html?_r=2&
child's pose
Meirah Korval and student (Photo by Tatiana McCabe)The world can be an overwhelming place for children with diagnoses such as Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) [http://www.spdfoundation.net/about-sensory-processing-disorder/] and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) [http://www.chadd.org/]. While most can appropriately organize the pandemonium of a subway
missing adult
A Bensonhurst family is frantically searching for their adult sister with special needs who wandered away from their home last month. Eva Normand, 35, left her family’s Bay Parkway apartment on April 16, at 1am. When she is not taking medication, Eva may walk without sleeping or eating for
Marco Lagerman
Photo via Teresa LagermanWith his twinkling eyes and impish grin, Marco Lagerman steals the heart of just about everyone he meets, but life hasn’t always been easy for the Windsor Terrace four-year-old, who was born with unilateral hearing loss. “There are different degrees of hearing loss,” Marco’s mother,
protest
Despite the rain and wind chill, over 50 parents, children, and allies of children with special needs came out this morning to protest the State Education Department’s (SED) freeze on funds for special education, which is forcing a Borough Park early childhood center to close in the middle of