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Best Kept Secret- Movie

At JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey s largest city, administrators answer the phone by saying, You ve reached John F. Kennedy High School, Newark s Best Kept Secret. And indeed, it is. JFK is a school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of six young autistic men for 4 years. They must graduate from JFK in the spring of 2012. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world a job or rare placement in a recreational center – so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.

BEST KEPT SECRET
Opening in NYC from September 5th – 12th
HARLEM: At the New MIST Harlem Theater
46 W 116th St New York, NY 10026
Premiere 9/5 7pm and Q&A with filmmakers
Screenings 9/7 4pm & 6pm with panel discussions

DOWNTOWN: At the IFC Center
323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014
(Playing 9/6-9/12)

Stay connected:
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Trailer
Directed by Samantha Buck

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Best Kept Secret, a new award-winning documentary about special education students, is opening in NYC September 5-12. The film follows a spirited and dedicated teacher in Newark, NJ as she struggles to prepare her autistic students to transition from safe and protective environment of school to the daunting and sometimes harsh realities of independent adulthood.
Watch the trailer: http://youtu.be/V502yDDm4uA
Thursday 9/5 premiere & Saturday 9/7 shows with Q&As & discussion panels at MIST Harlem: http://bit.ly/16lpVHR
Playing 9/6-9/12 at the IFC Center: http://bit.ly/15bGFdS

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Award-winning dramatic special-ed documentary @BKSFilm playing NYC 9/5-9/12 @myimagestudios & @IFCCenter. Trailer: http://youtu.be/V502yDDm4uA

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Turning 5: How to Work with the Department of Education (DOE) to Obtain Appropriate Services, Accommodations, and Placements

The Learning and Development Center at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine cordially invites you to:

Turning 5: How to Work with the Department of Education to Obtain Appropriate Services, Accommodations, and Placements

In this workshop, educational advocates, Eileen Libutti and Jennifer Frankola of the law firm Lewis Johs, will walk parents, learning specialists, and other interested professionals, through the process of obtaining free and appropriate services for students. Dr. Juan Pedraza will discuss medication management for school age children. Dr. Ami Norris-Brilliant will discuss the testing process both within the Department of Education and obtaining outside evaluations.

Date: September 10th, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Place: Stern Auditorium
First Floor
The Annenburg Building at Mt. Sinai Hospital Center
1468 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

Please feel free to pass along the invitation to any families whom you feel would benefit from attending!

We will take questions during the workshop, but welcome any questions in advance. To send a question, please email ami.norris…@mssm.edu

RSVPs welcome, please email [email protected] or call (212) 241-4423 with any questions.

Sincerely,
Ami Norris-Brilliant, PsyD

Craig Selinger
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Speech Therapy for Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Children

Our speech therapy staff travels to your home throughout Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Navy Yard, Vinegar Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Prospect Heights, Park Slope and more! Our traveling speech language therapists provide evaluation and treatment services to infants through adults, in the convenience of your New York City home or your child’s school. We collaborate with a team of professionals specializing in neuropsychology, psychology, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, nutrition and hearing. We pride ourselves on developing strong relationships with the families we service. – See more at: https://brooklynletters.com/#sthash.xihBT0q5.dpuf

Read more about our staff.

Contact: craig@brooklynletters and/or 347-394-3485

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Lower East Side, Manhattan Speech Therapy

Meet Heather, the newest addition to the Brooklyn Letters group of speech therapists. Currently, she is a clinical supervisor at NYU s biofeedback and speech perception laboratories, working with children who struggle producing the “r” sound, and who have not responded to traditional therapies. She also provides therapy at the Lang School, a private school for children who are considered twice-exceptional, meaning they are gifted and talented and have some form of learning disability. Bilingual in Spanish and English, she has worked with bilingual and bicultural populations in Bolivia and Ghana, and with school-age children in East Harlem. She is on a team to compile resource manuals for other speech therapists working with bilingual populations as part of the Leaders Project, which makes quality services available to low-income populations. Heather believes that evidence-based practice and collaboration with parents, family members, and other professionals are key to maximizing communicative growth. With children, Heather is passionate about working with children who have sensory integration difficulties, auditory processing disorders, and those on the autism spectrum. With adults, she provides individual and group support to improve daily life activities following brain injury and/or language loss (aphasia). Heather holds a master's degree in speech and language pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Reed College. She is licensed in New York state as a speech and language pathologist, has a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is a certified Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities, and has a Bilingual Extension Certificate in Spanish.

Contact Heather at [email protected] or leave a message at 347-394-3485.

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Brooklyn Letters Reading Tutoring Services

Brooklyn Letters provides reading tutoring services in the convenience of your Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Queens home. Our reading specialists teach decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) using the Orton-Gillingham mulit-sensory approach, including the Wilson Reading System, as well as aid in the mastery of reading fluency and reading comprehension.

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Social Skills Assessment for 18 to 47 month old children

Social skills assessment for toddlers and preschoolers: testing social language use (pragmatic language). This assessment helps identify children with delays in pragmatic language development. We mail you the questionnaire, you fill it out, mail it back to us & we score it, provide you with the results, and schedule a 30 minute phone consultation.

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Intensive Transgender Voice Class

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This Intensive Transgender Voice class includes individual screenings (meet alone with the trainer during the first and last
classes to determine your current level, goals, and progress); discussions on topics such as vocal hygiene, breathing, loudness, pitch, intonation, resonance and articulation; and speech drills, sensory tasks, individualized practice and real-life exercises.

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NYU Speech Study: Does Practice Make Perfect?

We are studying the way practice can affect the way children with delayed speech development move their lips and jaws to speak. We are looking for 5 to 6 year old children with impaired speech production skills for a total commitment of 5 hours over 3 sessions. They will receive a free speech, language, and hearing screening, and a gift card upon completion of the study.

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Speech Research Study: Young Adults with Dyslexia

We are looking for young adults with a diagnosis of dyslexia or a history of significant reading and spelling difficulties to participate in a speech research study. This is a CUNY-wide IRB-approved study. In this short study you?ll be shown some pictures, listen to stories and then answer questions about what you saw. There are additional computer activities. We are very interested in how people learn and what makes it easier and harder for people to remember things. You will actually be teaching us about how you learn best.

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Social Skills Groups Coming to Brooklyn

We plan to start two social skills groups on Saturday mornings, located at a new office in Windsor Terrace (19th Street and 8th Ave, Brooklyn). 1st session will be on December 1st, 2012.

We are recruiting children between the ages of 3 to 8; we work with children with and without diagnoses, such e.g. autism spectrum (PDD, Aspergers), language processing, speech language delay, social language delay, auditory processing disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, language based learning disabilities, etc.

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Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens Reading Tutor Specialists

Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens professional reading tutoring services by reading specialists who specialize in reading difficulties, e.g dyslexia, working in the convenience of your home. We are trained in Orton Gillingham and Wilson, and we travel to:
Manhattan– Upper East Side, Midtown East, Murray Hill, Gramercy, Union Square, East Village, Soho, Upper West Side, Midtown, Chelsea, West Village, Chinatown, Lower East Side.
Brooklyn– Kensington, Midwood, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Ditmas Park, Boro Park, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Ditmas Park, Kensington, Prospect Park South, Midwood, Canarsie, Flatbush, Crown Heights, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Prospect Heights, Bay Ridge, and Dyker Heights.
Queens— Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City, Astoria
Long Island– near Baldwin.

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