SINAI Schools is an organization based in the New York Metropolitan area that provides education for Jewish children and young adults with special needs. SINAI is the only Jewish day school for children with special needs that has received the coveted accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

SINAI's student-to-professional ratio is greater than 1:2. This allows SINAI to create, implement, closely monitor, and, as needed, regularly modify an individualized program for each child. SINAI provides a range of therapies, including speech, language, occupational, psychological and behavioral therapies. SINAI also provides a wide range of mainstreaming opportunities in academic, social, and vocational settings.

Excellence in Special Education

SINAI's students present a range of academic, developmental, cognitive, sensory, social, emotional and behavioral deficits. SINAI offers premier special education for its many high functioning and even gifted students with a wide array of learning disabilities. SINAI also serves students with a wide array of developmental disabilities, including:

• Autism
  Autism
  Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
  
  
• Asperger Syndrome
  Asperger syndrome
  Asperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...
  
  
• Down Syndrome
  Down syndrome
  Down syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...
  
  
• Cerebral Palsy
  Cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
  
  
• Muscular Dystrophy
  Muscular dystrophy
  Muscular dystrophy is a group of muscle diseases that weaken the musculoskeletal system and hamper locomotion. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.In the 1860s, descriptions of boys who...
  
  
• Epilepsy
  Epilepsy
  Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...
  
  
• Cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
   Survival
• Depression and Anxiety disorders

Schools and Programs

SINAI includes elementary divisions housed within Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy

Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy

The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a coeducational Modern Orthodox Yeshiva Day School located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Academy is dedicated towards developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8...

 in Livingston

Livingston, New Jersey

Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 29,366.Livingston was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township and Springfield...

 and Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge

River Edge, New Jersey

River Edge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 11,340.The community was incorporated as the borough of Riverside by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 30, 1894, from portions of Midland Township, at the...

 and high school divisions situated in Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School/Yeshivas Bais Yosef is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Livingston, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2003-04 school year, the school educated 265 students in grades 9-12. The school serves students living in areas ranging from Livingston, Staten Island,...

 in Livingston and both Ma'ayanot High School for Girls and Torah Academy of Bergen County

Torah Academy of Bergen County

Torah Academy of Bergen County is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey. It utilizes a split-schedule day offering both Jewish studies and college preparatory courses...

 in Teaneck

Teaneck, New Jersey

Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....

SINAI also offers an Adult transitional program with the Nathan Miller SHELI (Supported Home Environment for Learning Independence) residence for men. SHELI is designed to meet the social, recreational, and emotional needs of young adults with developmental disabilities in the context of a supervised housing facility. This unique program guides young adults through their transitions to group living while promoting their independence as adults.

External links

• SINAI Schools