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“Creating a world where people with disabilities will live simply as people.”

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In an innovative attempt to increase access to an inaccessible museum in New York, HVS students had the opportunity to visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum via a live, interactive, virtual tour from the Smeal Learning Center here at Abilities!. Click to see a Video Clip.

Special Announcements

REALABILITIES: NY Disabilities Film Festival First Metro Wide Festival Featuring Films Of Persons With Disabilities - September 21st 2008 - September 23rd 2008.

Abilities! will be one of the four locations on Long Island that will be hosting the Festival. For more information, please visit check the Smeal Learning Center Events Page.

Access to Jazz for Children with Physical Disabilities

Friends of the Arts, Abilities! and the Henry Viscardi School invite music educators and teaching artists to view a video teleconference on Disability Awareness and Access to Music Education for Students with Physical Challenges.

Please click here to Access the Jazz Program

Abilities! Facts

In our independent living house on the Abilities! campus, students learn how to become more independent in an authentic home setting. Respondents to the Henry Viscardi School 2007 graduate outcome survey indicated that HVS’ Independent Living House, Technology availability and Career Connections program helped prepare them for college or employment.

Abilities! website now supports online giving. The online donation is a secure, credit card transaction. The “Support Abilities!” link appears in the top right corner of the website.

For more information on Abilities! programs and services, questions about donating online, or to make a donation, please contact our Development Office at (516) 465-1596.

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