East River Child Development Center (ERCDC) is a not-for-profit educational corporation founded in 1972 to provide a family centered, community based school experience for children and families. As ERCDC grew and matured, its mission was refined to focus on servicing children with special needs. ERCDC provides a comprehensive Special Education program delivering educational and therapeutic services in a centerbased multicultural, multilingual environment. Additional services include comprehensive evaluations as well as Special Education Itinerant Services to children in their homes and those attending regular preschools, headstarts and daycare centers. ERCDC believes that the provision of comprehensive, coordinated services to children with special needs should be provided in the least restrictive environment and must be responsive to the individual child and their family. ERCDC offers educational and therapeutic services to special needs children between the ages of three and five. Th