Back in December 2008, we covered the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School’s decision to remove the Little Room, a program for special needs 3 and 4-year-olds, from its Bergen Street campus. The decision was made to keep the Little room open until August 2010, until it would be moved to join a different organization, which, according to the Brooklyn Paper, will possibly be the League Treatment Center, a center in DUMBO for children and adults with autism and other disabilities.
Brooklyn Paper: The planned expansion into the historic brick firehouse, as well as the takeover of the Little Room’s space, was a grim reminder for parents that the program will only remain in the Montessori School for this coming school year.
Some worry that future students will lose the developmental benefits that come from being around mainstream classes if they’re housed only in a special-education environment.
“It’s very disheartening,” said Joyce Creidy, the mother of twins graduating this summer from the Little Room. “The Little Room is in a nice space in a real school. The League [Treatment Center] is more of an institutionalized setting.”
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