About
Us
|
Introduction
| Mission Statement | Board
of Trustees | Directors |
Introduction
The Lexington
School for the Deaf/Center for the Deaf has served the broader
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community of the New York metropolitan
area since 1864. Since its founding as a school, Lexington has
evolved to offer vital services in a range of important areas.
Lexington
strives to be a leading educational, advocacy, and social service
agency on behalf of deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Lexington
operates the following comprehensive programs in order to carry
out this mission:
- The Lexington
School, for deaf children ages 0-21.
- The Lexington
Center for Mental Health Services, including an outpatient clinic
and specialized infant, child, adult, and family services.
- The Lexington
Vocational Services Center, supported employment and independent
living skills training for adults.
- The Lexington
Hearing and Speech Center, community-based speech and audiology
services.
- The Ralph
and Ricky Lauren Center for the Performing Arts.
Lexington
is a nonprofit 501(C)3 charitable organization which survives
through contracts, charitable organizations, and your tax-deductible
donations.
The needs
of Lexington's students and clients increasingly reflect the challenges
posed by society, with many living in poverty and facing profound
obstacles to accessing healthcare and to obtaining decent employment.
Many are recent immigrants for whom the complex adjustment to
life in the United States is made more difficult because of deafness.
- Lexington
operates three Early Intervention programs which provide referrals
to services for families with young children who are deaf or
hard of hearing.
- Lexington
also operates a licensed child care and universal pre-k center
which provides full-day care for children in the community aged
12 months through pre-kindergarten.
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Mission
Statement
The Lexington
School for the Deaf/Center for the Deaf seeks to be an exemplary
education, service and research institution for the deaf and hard
of hearing in Metropolitan New York City and the country. Its
special emphases are:
- Collaborating
with the deaf and hard of hearing to realize their full potential
in both the deaf and hard of hearing worlds
- Working
with individuals - and their families - of all ages, races,
creeds, colors, ethnicities, languages, genders, sexual preferences
and socio-economic situations and with a wide range of capacities,
interests, and needs
- Ensuring
mastery of expressive and receptive communication skills by
individuals at every point along the spectrum of deaf to hard
of hearing
- Designing,
constructing and using the evolving information technologies
to best advantage
- Taking
a leading position - in concert with the deaf and hard of hearing
communities - in articulating the multifaceted challenges, opportunities
and needs for services of the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Board
of Trustees
| Gregory J. Hlibok, Esq. |
President |
| Ricky
E. Thomas |
Vice
President |
| Claudia
Gordon, Esq. |
Secretary |
| Albert
J. Hlibok |
Treasurer |
Philip
W. Bravin
Patrice
L.A. Joyner
Aaron Kubey
Alan
Mansfield, Esq.
Frank
E. Moriya, D.B.A.
Carole
Moskowitz
I. David
Paley
Arvin Pasricha
Russell Rosen
Linda
Schlesinger
Robert
B. Steinberg, Esq.
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Directors
Superintendent/CEO
Regina
Carroll , Ph.D.
Executive
Director, Lexington Vocational Services Center
Adele I. Agin, C.S.W.
Executive Director, Lexington Mental Health Center
Adele I. Agin, C.S.W.
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