East River Child Development Center

east river child development center (ercdc) is a not-for-profit educational corporation founded in 1976 to provide a family centered, community based school experience for children and families. as ercdc grew and matured, it’s mission was refined to focus on servicing children with special needs. ercdc provides a comprehensive special education program delivering educational and therapeutic services in a centerbased multicultural, multilingual environment. additional services include comprehensive evaluations as well as special education itinerant services. ercdc believes that the provision of comprehensive, coordinated services to children with special needs should be provided in the least restrictive environment and must be responsive to the individual child and their family. ercdc has created a therapeutic and challenging learning environment that encourages high expectations for success through developmentally-appropriate instruction that allows for individual differences and learn