{"id":10045,"date":"2024-01-31T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=10045"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:53:57","slug":"10000-nyc-students-are-shut-out-of-programs-for-children-with-autism-adding-160-seats-is-a-start","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/bn\/articles\/10000-nyc-students-are-shut-out-of-programs-for-children-with-autism-adding-160-seats-is-a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 NYC students are shut out of programs for children with autism. 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Those trips can stretch over an hour each way, thanks in part to the city\u2019s notoriously unreliable yellow bus system. Lengthy commutes can make it difficult to attend after-school programs or build friendships with children in their neighborhood who attend local schools.\r\n\r\n\u201cI think it is a really important first step,\u201d said Maggie Moroff, a member of the advisory group that produced recommendations and a policy coordinator at Advocates for Children, a group that helps families navigate the special education system.\r\n\r\nMoroff was glad to hear city officials reiterate their commitment to including students with disabilities alongside general education students when possible and creating more programs in their home neighborhoods. And she also appreciated a new glossary released by the Education Department that aims to help schools use more inclusive language when referring to children with disabilities and the programs that serve them.\r\n\r\nBut questions remained about the city\u2019s plans, including whether it will scale up special education programming beyond the autism-focused initiative reaching just three of 32 local districts. Multiple advocates also noted there was little mention of the city\u2019s vision for District 75, a network of schools that educate more than 26,000 students with more significant disabilities. Those children are largely separated from students without disabilities.\r\n\r\n\u201cLike so many things, the devil is going to be in the details about how it plays out,\u201d Moroff said.\r\n\r\n\u201cMany of our kids, we\u2019ve got to send them way out of the neighborhood at great expense to the system and at great inconvenience to the families and to the kids themselves,\u201d schools Chancellor David Banks said during a press conference at Brooklyn\u2019s P.S. 958, which opened last school year as a model for serving local students with a broad range of abilities.","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[28],"misc_topics":[198]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":10046}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10,000 NYC students are shut out of programs for children with autism. 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