The Early Childhood Services Area provides disabilities services to staff parents and children in LIHS. Our goal is to establish a variety of integrated educational opportunities for children with special needs. We want to ensure that children with disabilities receive a complete range of child development services designed to meet their special needs.        

Our disabilities services, in coordination with the other program services, Bilinguals,Inc., and the ACLD/Head Start collaboration. offers specialized services to children who have special needs. These services are provided in our Head Start program, by outside agencies, or through a combination of both. the special education services include the following areas:
       

Through our work with community-based organizations, such as the Suffolk County BSCD's Inclusion Task Force, we promote the understanding that all children benefit from inclusionary settings. It helps all children, special needs children as well as those without special needs, to learn from an early age to be accepting and respectful of each other...which is why LIHS classrooms are inclusionary. We would like to invite you to join us in our efforts to continue to provide positive experiences for all children, including children with special needs.