Special Education - Project Lev

· Sunday mornings 10:00am – 12:00pm
· Open to all grade levels
· Open to verbal and non-verbal communicators

Project Lev is a unique Religious School program open to the Jewish community for children with special needs and children with cognitive, physical, social and emotional challenges.

The curriculum is rich, varied, and individually designed to meet the needs of each of our students. Each child has an individual education plan with goals and objectives, works with an aide and is monitored by our Special Needs coordinator. All students are included in school-wide events, grade-level events and weekly specialty subjects such as, music, art and Chugim (clubs).

Launched in September 2003 with a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, Project Lev is the only program of its kind and is open to all children in the Jewish Community. Our program has enriched not only the lives of our Project Lev children and their families, but also the lives of all those who are associated with the program, such as our cadre of volunteer student mentors. Our efforts have been nationally recognized by United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism , we have been awarded the coveted Solomon Schechter Gold Award for excellence in the area of Special Needs.

Since Project Lev’s inception, we have celebrated the B’nai Mitzvah of many of our students, including a Bat Mitzvah who communicated via an augmentative communication device to sing the prayers and songs.