Education, Research & Community Programs

The Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine

of Yeshiva University

 

• Self-Advocacy Services
• Professional Training
• The Early Intervention Training Institute
• Research Activities
• Technical Assistance and Public Policy

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Self-Advocacy Services

CERC is committed to enhancing and ensuring the personal development, self determination and rights of individuals with developmental disabilities.  This commitment is reflected in its ongoing support of the Bronx Community Self Advocacy Group.  This group of adults with developmental disabilities meets regularly to address issues related to their quality of life.  Established in 1978, this group was one of the first of its kind in New York State.  

The Rose F. Kennedy UCEDD and CERC are widely recognized for their exemplary leadership and interdisciplinary training for medical and allied health professionals in the early identification, diagnosis, and treatment of developmental disabilities.  Medical and health care professional trainees include physicians, dentists, medical students, residents, post-residency fellows, nurses and nurse practitioners.  Allied health trainees include students and professionals in social work, psychology, special education, occupational and physical therapy, nutrition, audiology, speech and language pathology and administration.  Training takes place at CERC’s three primary locations, the Rose F. Kennedy Center, the Fisher Landau Center located in the Rousso Building, and the Early Childhood Center, as well as numerous sites in the community.

CERC and UCEDD faculty and trainees conduct research in developmental disabilities and mental retardation.  A variety of clinical and scientific studies are ongoing at CERC.  Included among these are clinical investigations in the early diagnosis of developmental disabilities and hearing problems, genetic and electrophysiologic studies, and the therapeutic effects of various intervention modalities.  Other studies are being carried out in the areas of physical rehabilitation, speech, hearing and language development, learning disabilities, developmental dental defects, high risk infant follow-up, social and behavioral adjustment and treatment of hyperactive children, or adolescents, and their families.

The staffs of the Rose F. Kennedy UCEDD and CERC provide technical expertise in the formation of public policy to improve services for the developmentally disabled, including early intervention programs in New York State, programs and policies to benefit children with a variety of special needs, children with HIV infections, and health services for developmentally disabled adults.  In addition, they have helped create standards for children with special needs in day care, clinical guidelines for early intervention, and improved services for developmentally disabled adolescents. They conducted a major study of financing health care for children with severe disabilities and research in other health-care policy areas. Several of these efforts have led to important changes in the availability of services to children with developmental disabilities.

The Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is supported, in part, by grants and contracts from the: U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau; U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities; U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (Ryan White Funding); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and, the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.  These, at times, are supplemented by grants and contracts from other governmental agencies and private foundations.  The Fisher-Landau Center for the Treatment of Learning Disabilities was established through a major gift from Emily Fisher Landau.  An endowment created through the generosity of The Gottesman Fund provides permanent support for the leadership of the Center.