On the Web:

• Cooke Center for Learning and Development

In fieldnotes by

• Ekson Khambule
• Linda Lin
• Hervé Varenne
  • June 12, 2007: Talk with Tom Goodridge

In interviews

Documents

"The Cooke Center was founded in 1987 by a small group of parents seeking high quality, inclusive schooling for their children with special needs. Then, as now, the options offered by schools were limited to highly restrictive, self-contained sites with minimal interaction with students from the general school population. Inclusion was then referred to as mainstreaming and it was non-existent in the New York City public or private schools. At the present time, although inclusion programs are more widely available, the children we serve are typically restricted from such programs or offered programs that do not appropriately meet their needs."