GEC’s Carrie Mastronardi Early Childhood Education Center offers a comprehensive clinical and educational program for preschoolers with disabilities to help them develop crucial language, social, and thinking skills. Our school staff provides services for families in a wide array of languages.
Our program mission is to:
GEC’s preschool staff includes NYS-certified teaching assistants, aides, an IEP coordinator, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists. Other school support staff includes a bilingual social worker and a school nurse.
Preschoolers in the program receive a full day of instruction focused on developing the foundational knowledge and skills in the NYS Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core standards. Children have the opportunity to participate in whole group, small group, and independent classroom experiences using a wide variety of learning materials. Classroom staff support and encourage children to learn and try new things, actively explore with peers, adjust to routines, problem solve, and use new vocabulary throughout the school day.
Additional activities made possible through Sections 611 and 619 of the IDEA Grant include art, music lessons and a lending library.
Call us at (718) 435-2554 for more information.
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