The Eis Laasois School - 5 Years+
Embracing every child’s journey. Empowering them to succeed.
The Eis Laasois School provides individualized and specialized education and therapy services in a warm and supportive environment. We serve children with multiple disabilities and medical fragility and give them the opportunity to access quality education and receive highly skilled therapeutic services. We provide research-based educational and therapeutic services to target all areas of development and function.
Bilingual
Yiddish School
Located in
Williamsburg
Low Student-to-
Teacher Ratio
On-Site
Nurse
Wheelchair Accessible
An Integrated Team Approach
Clinicians from all disciplines work together as a team to bring out the best in every student. We view the whole child and understand that all areas of development are interrelated.
Bi-Yiddish
Special Ed
Instruction
Physical
Therapy
Occupational
Therapy
Speech
Therapy
Vision
Services
Music
Therapy
Animal Assist
Therapy
Auditory-Verbal
Consults and
Evaluations
AAC
Specialist
Redefining Children’s Potential
Our Educational Model
No child is too challenged that they can’t be
given the opportunity to learn.
Every child deserves to be given the opportunity to learn. We believe that students’ unique challenges should not get in the way of them accessing robust education. Rather, we adapt the environment, materials, and learning to meet the needs of each individual student. We’ll stop at nothing to give every child a chance to taste success!
Floortime Model
We establish and build relationships with students as a foundation for all learning. Students are intrinsically motivated to learn because of the strong teacher-student connection and because the learning is meaningful to them.
Literacy-Based Curriculum
Our curriculum is based on the model of Comprehensive Literacy for All by David Koppenhaver and Karen Erickson. All students are immersed in literacy through Shared Reading, Shared Writing, Alphabet Instruction, and Phonemic Awareness.
AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) in the Classroom
The special education teachers work directly with the SLPs to support students who are non-speaking in using their communication systems in the classroom. Children participate in classroom learning with their individualized AAC devices.
Therapy Goals Integrated in the Classroom
The classroom is an extension of therapy. Skills learned in individual therapy are reinforced by practicing them in the classroom environment.
Assistive Technology
High-tech, mid-tech and low-tech assistive technology is used to provide students with significant physical disabilities and complex needs access to resources that typically developing children use naturally in their environment. Some examples include using accessibility switches to turn on a blender during cooking class, play a game of bowling with their peers, and turn on music for the class.
Classroom Setting
Individualized instruction and group learning encourage social interaction, and student engagement and maximize learning.
Our AAC Model
Since we service students who have complex communication needs, a strong emphasis is placed on providing every child with a means to communicate and the opportunity to learn and communicate throughout their day. AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) opens the doors for students with complex communication needs to express themselves. Every child can communicate. We provide them with the means.
Our speech team is led by AAC specialist Judi Krumbein M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP. We provide individualized AAC evaluations for every student. Students’ communication skills and needs are assessed and matched with customized equipment for each student’s language and access needs. We work with a variety of equipment and device vendors to provide the best fit for each child’s communication needs. Intensive training and modeling for students, staff, and families are provided both in 1:1 speech sessions as well as in the classroom to teach students to communicate using alternative means.
The successes we
celebrate.
A child learned to use a sophisticated eye gaze device to communicate with the people around him. One of the first sentences he put together was “Mommy, you I like”!
Some of our students have learned that they can interact with their peers by pressing an accessibility switch with a pre recorded message on it.
A child who is learning to use a communication application on an iPad was able to express her distress to her therapist during a session by pressing the icons “stop” and “uncomfortable”.
Our Therapy Model
Therapy Team
Our highly skilled therapy team uses a wide array of cutting-edge research-based therapeutic techniques and modalities.
Service Delivery
Our delivery of related services is greater than students’ IEP mandate.
Group Therapy
In addition to students’ individual sessions, we provide weekly OT, Speech and Vision group sessions to support students in using the skills they’ve learned in therapy in other environments.
Therapeutic Equipment
We have a wide variety of adaptive equipment including standers, walkers, and gait trainers that are provided for our students based on their unique needs.