{"id":13371,"date":"2025-06-25T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=13371"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:34:37","slug":"more-than-7000-preschoolers-went-without-services-like-speech-therapy-this-year","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ur\/articles\/more-than-7000-preschoolers-went-without-services-like-speech-therapy-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 7,000 preschoolers went without services like speech therapy this year"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13371","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-early-childhood"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"\u0622\u0631\u0679\u06cc\u06a9\u0644 \u067e\u0691\u06be\u06cc\u06ba","url":"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/education\/2025\/06\/25\/more-than-7-000-preschoolers-went-without-services-like-speech-therapy-this-year","target":""},"file":null,"title":""},"image":13372,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>NY1\u00a0<\/strong>| Malique is a 3-K student who is supposed to receive speech therapy three days a week and occupational therapy twice a week while he\u2019s at school. But this year, he did not receive a single session of either service.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s showing what his, with \u2014 as he's talking. And also, as he's not writing, or trying to do the things that he's supposed to be doing, his milestones,\u201d his mother, Monique Franklin, said.\r\n\r\nMalique is one of about 25,000 children in pre-K and 3-K who have an Individualized Education Program, or IEP. Many of those children can attend a general education class \u2014 with a little help in the form of mandated services like speech, occupational or physical therapy, or visits by a special education teacher.\r\n\r\nBut as of late May:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>7,156 preschoolers with disabilities had not received a single session of at least one of their mandated services<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Of those, 3,729 of them received none of their mandated services<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\u201cThese are the supports that are really meant to enable the children to work and and learn alongside their peers in the classroom. And so we're talking about, honestly, a systemic violation of the legal rights of these young children,\u201d Betty Baez-Melo, director of the Early Childhood Project at Advocates for Children, said.\r\n\r\nBaez Melo says those numbers only capture students who have not had even a single session of a service.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt doesn't account for children who maybe waited five or six months in order for one of those services to begin,\u201d she said.","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[8],"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13372}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More than 7,000 preschoolers went without services like speech therapy this year - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ur\/articles\/more-than-7000-preschoolers-went-without-services-like-speech-therapy-this-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More than 7,000 preschoolers went without services like speech therapy this year - 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