Serving Children with Special Needs
For young children, discovery and exploration are enhanced in a nurturing and stimulating environment that promotes growth and development. Volunteers of America’s Staten Island Early Learning Center is a model program providing comprehensive educational experiences for children with cognitive or language impairments, social and emotional difficulties, or sensory and motor problems.
Support for families
Volunteers of America’s Staten Island Early Learning Center understands that parents who have a child with special needs are concerned about their child’s development. Our teachers welcome parents/caregivers at our school and offer help to families by providing support groups, individual counseling and other social work services. Parents are offered educational workshops on behavior management, health and hygiene issues, language development, fine-motor development, parental rights and advocacy.
The Staten Island Early Learning Center also provides assistance in obtaining appropriate public school placement when a child is about to transition out of pre-kindergarten.
SEIT Program
Committed to maximizing the learning potential of every child in our care, the Staten Island Early Learning Center also offers Special Education Itinerant Teachers (SEIT) with expertise in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Preschool Opportunities
The Staten Island Early Learning Center is here to meet the needs of the children in our community. We offer:
- Full-day 10- and 12-month classes for children ages 3 to 5 years old
- Related services, including counseling and speech, occupational, and physical therapy
- Music therapy program
- New and innovative therapeutic horseback riding program
- High teacher to student ratio
- Applied Behavior Analysis
State-Approved Evaluations
State-approved evaluations are provided free of charge to every child and are offered at home or in our center. Evaluations can include:
- Psychological assessment
- Educational assessment
- Speech and language assessment
- Occupational or physical therapy assessment
- Social history
Staten Island Early Learning Center is Here to Help
Our certified and experienced staff provides instructional and therapeutic services. We have on-site social workers and special educators, as well as speech, physical, and occupational therapists. Our staff also includes a psychologist and fulltime nurse.
For more information, contact:
Staten Island Early Learning Center
10 Joline Lane
Staten Island, NY 10307
Tel: 718-984-7900
Fax: 718-984-4290
The Staten Island Early Learning Center is funded by the New York State Education Department and the New York State Department of Health, and licensed by the New York City Department of Health.
The Staten Island Early Learning Center is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
