SEPTA
How Can You Support SEPTA?
- Become an Active Member
- Attend Monthly Meetings
- Volunteer Your Time
- Support Our Fundraisers
- Keep Informed, Spread the News!
What Are Its Goals?
- To ensure each special needs children receives the best possible free appropriate public education, resulting in the children reaching his or her full potential.
- To encourage children with special needs to participate in regular education programs as much as possible,
- To bring together parents, teachers, administrators, therapists and friends of children with varying needs in order to share their experiences and expertise.
- To keep parents informed of issues and changes in the laws affecting their children.
- To familiarize parents with the Committee on Special Education (CSE) and its process of programs for children with special needs.
- To educate the community at large for the need of Special Education Programs.
Obtaining Information:
The NYS Education Department publishes A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York State for Children Ages 3-21.
You may obtain a copy by contacting:
Long Island Regional Office
NYS Education Department
P-12: Office of Special Education
Special Education Quality Assurance (SEQA)
Perry B. Duryea, Jr. State Office Building
Room 2A-5
250 Veterans Memorial Highway
Hauppauge, NY 11788
- Telephone: (631) 952-3352
- Fax (631) 952-3834