The School for Language and Communication Development (SLCD) just opened its high school in Richmond Hill following the settlement of an eight year lawsuit with the New York State Education Department (SED).
SLCD, which was founded 25 years ago in Glen Cove, serves students with language and autism spectrum disorders. In 2006 SLCD opened a middle school building in Woodside. As the children continued moving up, the school began looking for a building for a high school and found space in Richmond Hill. But limits on programs serving students with disabilities got in the way.
The new high school in Richmond Hill, at 87-25 136th Street, will have 168 students. Some of the services that it has been approved for are speech counseling, psychological services, assistive technology, rehabilitative counseling services, parent training, school nursing services, and school health services. It will also offer vocational training.
For more information about the School for Language and Communication Development, visit www.slcd.org.
