SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS (5-21 YRS) - New Jersey
School for Children with Hidden Intelligence
345 Oak Street
Lakewood, New Jersey 08701
732-886-0900
Accepts most disabilities
Boys and girls ages 5-21
Separate classes for older children
Mekor Hachinuch
732-730-1221
Lakewood, New Jersey
Mekor HaChinuch is an institution that services the hundreds of elementary school students whose learning challenges prevent them from thriving in a mainstream classroom setting. Their team of devoted supervisors, therapists, and educators nurtures each child’s growth developing their latent abilities and eventually enabling them to successfully mainstream. Mekor Hachinuch’s self-contained classrooms operate almost invisibly within the framework of Lakewood’s yeshivos and girls schools, ensuring utmost discretion and virtually eliminating stigma.
SEAD—Special Education Academy of Deal
1 Meridian Road
Eatontown, New Jersey 07724
732-460-1700
Accepts mild developmental delays, Autism/PDD, Speech & language impairments, learning disabled, ADD/ADHD
Boys & Girls ages 5-14
Sinai Schools
1485 Teaneck Road (office)
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
201-833-1134, 855-315-7616
A group of special ed schools integrated within mainstream elementary and high schools:
1. Sinai Elementary School at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
Livingston, New Jersey
2. Sinai Elementary School at Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey (including the Riva Blatt Judaic Studies Program)
River Edge, New Jersey
3. Maor High School at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School
Livingston, New Jersey
(For students with average or above average cognitive ability, but who experience academic difficulties)
4. Shalem High School at Torah Academy of Bergen County
Teaneck, New Jersey
(for boys diagnosed with developmental and/or profound learning disabilities)
5. Shalem High School at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School
Teaneck, New Jersey
(for girls diagnosed with developmental and/or profound learning disabilities)
Accepts developmental delays, autism/PDD, speech & language impaired, learning disabled, ADD/ADHD, emotionally disturbed, hearing impaired, visually impaired
Boys & girls ages 6-21
The Forum School
107 Wyckoff Avenue
Waldwick, New Jersey 07463
201-444-5882
Accepts moderate to high functioning Autism and Asperger’s, schizophrenia, speech & language disorders, perceptual difficulties not related to a specific sensory deficit, delayed motor development, inappropriate affect& association disorders.
Boys & girls ages 5-16 (most students are boys, mostly female staff)