Guild for Exceptional Children
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The Guild for Exceptional Children is a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn which offers schooling and other services for children and adults with a disability. It identifies itself as a "provider of direct and indirect services for developmentally delayed or disabled persons, from infancy through old age, and their families."
[edit] Services
[edit] The Louis Boehm Diagnostic and Counseling Clinic
Provides screenings, evaluations, referrals and therapeutic services.
[edit] The Carrie Mastronardi Early Childhood Education Center
Serves children from birth to age four, and their families.
[edit] Day Habilitation Program
Provides adults with moderate and mild mental retardation with community-based activities.
[edit] Hope C. Morrison Day Center
Provides both Day Treatment and Day Habilitation.
[edit] Pre-Vocational Day-Hab Without Walls
Provides training and work experience for adults with mental retardation.
[edit] Early Intervention
Offers service coordination, evaluation and therapeutic services in the following areas:
- Special instruction
- Speech and language therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Feeding therapy
- Psychology
- Physical therapy
- Audiology
- Social work
[edit] Residential Services
Offers several residential facilities in southwest Brooklyn with services varying according to individual needs.
[edit] Horticulture/Greenhouse
Operates horticultural therapy activities in a greenhouse and other horticultural faclities which serve as part of several other programs. The Guild for Exceptional Children is a member of the American Horticultural Therapy Association.
[edit] Waiver Services
Helps families get access to services that they might not otherwise be able to participate in.
[edit] Other specialized services
- Medicaid Service Coordination
- Social Rehabilitation
- Senior Day Center
- Family Support/In Home Respite
[edit] History
The Guild for Exceptional Children was founded about 50 years ago at a time when many public schools did not provide classes for some children with a disability. The founding president of the Guild for Exceptional Children was Olga DeFelippo (died November 3, 2005)[1]. In 2001, the City of New York renamed part of 68th Street in Brooklyn, between Ridge Boulevard and 3rd Avenue, as "Guild For Exceptional Children Way."[2]
