"Gillen Brewer School is a place where all children should love it here. We have the best teachers and the coolest kids of all. Gillen Brewer rocks! Stick together... We make it good together!"
– A Gillen Brewer Student
Founded in 1992, The Gillen Brewer School
(GBS) is one of the few schools in New York City dedicated
to transforming the lives of young children with a wide variety
of language, emotional, developmental, learning and health-related
disabilities. The school specializes in educating children with
challenging, and often multiple disabilities including language-based
and non-verbal learning disabilities.
Gillen Brewer is one of the only schools
that works with children beginning at the pre-school level who have
multiple disabilities. Gillen Brewer embodies a comprehensive and thoughtful approach that sets the school
apart and which includes a particular set of distinguishing factors.
Gillen Brewer prides itself on its
mission to provide services for a diverse group of children from
all socio-economic backgrounds. » Read More.
"...there is no school other than Gillen
Brewer that addresses the needs of children with severe learning
disabilities and concomitant behavioral and emotional issues."
– Davida Sherwood, Ph.D.,
Educational Consultant and
Former Director, The Gateway School
Gillen Brewer employs a rigorous, 12 month curriculum that follows the New York State learning standards, while adhering to an individual learning program that meets the educational needs of each student. The Pre-School Program serves children from just under 3 to 5 years old and the School-Age Program serves children 5-10 who are classified as either learning disabled, emotionally disturbed or speech impaired.
