{"id":585,"date":"2012-01-04T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/story\/josephs-story\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:15:50","slug":"josephs-story","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/story\/josephs-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph’s Story"},"template":"","class_list":["post-585","story","type-story","status-publish","hentry","topic_tax-early-childhood"],"acf":{"component_hero":{"variant":"solid","":null,"subheader":"","button":"","image":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Joseph was born with a significant visual impairment that affected every aspect of his early development \u2013 from crawling to communicating his needs.\u00a0 Having been born premature, he also had delays in his speech and social\/emotional skills.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAt first he was fortunate in his school placement:\u00a0 he attended an integrated preschool program focused on helping children just like him.\u00a0 His teachers and service providers strongly recommended that Joseph remain in this program until kindergarten.<\/span>\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, an administrator at the Department of Education ignored these recommendations and decided to remove Joseph from the preschool program in the middle of the year, explaining that Joseph's visual impairment \u2013 he is blind in one eye and significantly impaired in his other \u2013 was not severe enough to warrant this placement.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nJoseph's mother came to Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) extremely worried about moving Joseph from a full-day, full-year, specialized preschool program to no program at all.\u00a0 AFC quickly intervened to keep Joseph in preschool.\u00a0 Following a school hearing, the Department of Education hearing officer reinstated Joseph in his program and increased his services, noting that this case was \u201can example of the Department of Education working at its worst.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\nA note from Joseph\u2019s teacher at the time sums up the impact AFC\u2019s advocacy has made in Joseph\u2019s life:<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cI just wanted to let you know that Joseph has flourished over the past six months! At his recent turning five meeting, we determined he will be ready for a general education setting next year! Thank you for working so diligently on his case and securing this last year of support services.\u00a0 I'm certain he wouldn't have made this progress if you hadn't worked so hard to provide him the opportunity to work and achieve!\u201d<\/span>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"topic":[8],"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"disable_sticky_helpbar":false,"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":""}},"component_slide":{"":null,"image":7846,"custom_tag":"","kicker":"Joseph's Story","title":"\u201cJozef te fleri pandan sis mwa ki sot pase yo! M\u00e8si paske w te travay av\u00e8k anpil dilijans sou ka li a epi ou te asire d\u00e8nye ane s\u00e8vis sip\u00f2 sa a. 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