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Jeffery Fox, executive director of Abilities First, and Serene Morrero, director of development, describe this Dutchess-County-based program that serves all developmentally disabled children and adults. The organization has thirty different facilities in Dutchess County, which began with its original \u201cLittle Red Schoolhouse\u201d in Poughkeepsie, and now goes from preschool to adult services. Since then, the emphasis in helping the developmentally disabled\u2013who may be on the autism spectrum, have down syndrome , or suffer other forms of intellectual disability\u2013has often been on \u201cmainstreaming\u201d students into regular classrooms, but Abilities First helps handle students not able to be integrated into ordinary schoolrooms. At the adult level, Abilities First provides help with ways to use community resources and currently aids sixty who have regular employment as well as those who are not able to work.\n\n--- \n\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/radiorotary/support