We Provide High-Quality Special Education Services
Optimal Care Services is a NYSED-approved SEIT service provider and CTLE sponsor. Our agency provides:
- Special education itinerant services for children ages 2.9 to 5.9
- Special education teacher support services (SETSS)
- Pendency
- Bilingual SEIT services
- CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education)
Optimal Care Services has been operating in New York City's five boroughs since 2013, providing much needed education, training, and support to families and early childhood centers. As a result, our program has become very familiar with the challenges that schools and families are faced with in navigating the process of acquiring special education services for students who are in dire need of support. Our program has also been a provider of professional development to early childhood centers and universities.
Our team is comprised of multi-lingual former SEIT teachers, BCBAs (Board Certified Behavior Analysts), LCSWs (Licensed Clinical Social Workers), experienced SEIT program supervisors/directors, and SEIT agency administrators and personnel with decades of experience working with CPSE and CSE district administrators throughout the 5 boroughs, early childhood programs, low income families, and families with limited English proficiency.
+ Students
+ Expert Teachers
NYC Boroughs
+ Years Of Experience
What Drives Us
Explore the core principles that steer our mission to provide exceptional special education services for preschool children:
Inclusive Democracy
Fostering a belief in civic and democratic values and promoting respect, equality, diversity, and a participatory approach to decision-making for all
Ethical Advocacy for Children
A steadfast commitment to ethical behavior on behalf of children, recognizing and respecting their individuality and supporting them as individuals
Collaborative Empowerment
Embracing partnerships and communication with schools and families to nurture a supportive and enriching environment for children's growth and development
Connecting high-quality SEITs to early childhood programs
We are committed to providing the highest quality of SEIT services and we aim to do this by:
Ensuring timely acquisition and initiation of high-quality SEIT services, as well as a high level of coordination with all stakeholders
Providing services that are aligned with pre-kindergarten Common Core standards and using the most recent evidence-based best practices in early childhood education
Maintaining a team of well-trained, highly-motivated, and highly-effective special education teachers to facilitate the provision of the highest quality SEIT services
Wisely using our resources to recruit, orient, and train highly efficient teachers and facilitate acquisition of teachers' bilingual extension
Fostering a culture of professionalism, accountability, and efficiency in our partnership with all CPSE administrators
Working collaboratively with parents and early childhood centers by providing them with resources and information to ensure continued appropriate, efficient, and beneficial interactions with their children with disability
What Our Teachers and Parents Say About Us
Optimal Care Services is an excellent agency to work for. The agency provides support to the teachers in all aspects, including paperwork, reports and is proactive with the education and development of their teachers. Optimal Care Services has great pay, benefits, and bonuses. I love working for a company that cares about their staff.
Being a special educator allows me to create instruction that enables children to learn at their fullest potential. Meeting their educational needs creates a mutually beneficial foundation of patience, comprehension, and growth. Having the chance to see achievement through their eyes is energizing.
I went back to school because I found my passion in helping younger students with disabilities, I wanted to make a difference, and I found that as a SEIT. I love going to work, and no matter how big or small the difference I feel I'm making, I feel such satisfaction when I come home. Especially when I have a non-verbal student who starts speaking after a few months while I'm teaching him/her. . . . I'm really devoted, and the parents as well as the students see it. I absolutely adore my students and love my job. I'm so grateful I switched . . . . to teaching.
I just wanted to express the amount of joy reading this progress report on my son. Ms. Smith does an amazing job with him and always goes above and beyond to make sure he is reaching all his goals. I am very grateful for her and I thank you for putting her at Watson with us.
I've been a SEIT at Optimal Care Services since 2018. It has been a pleasure working for this agency. Everyone at Optimal has always been very helpful when most needed at any given time and there are many opportunities to learn from countless workshops. . . . As a SEIT, when I see my students making progress and achieving their goals, I take great pride in knowing that I have helped them in many ways from the beginning of the school year to the end. To be a SEIT for Optimal Care Services is a privilege because they are an outstanding SEIT agency.
Our son was 2.5 years old when officially diagnosed with a learning/speech disability. We waited for almost one year for help and was starting to feel defeated. Until Deirdre G. came into our lives. We write this with eyes full because she has been an angel sent. She has helped our son in so many ways. He has reached all his goals so much faster than we all thought was possible.
Expand/CollapseShe is patient, kind, trustworthy, dedicated and passionate in everything she does. Our son absolutely adores her and that is the key to his success. Our son felt her patience and love from day one. She understands him and not many people do. Deirdre has been with our son now for less than one year and the change has been remarkable! She pushes him to be the best he can and now he is social, talkative and confident within himself. As parents of a child with a disability, it is very hard to trust anyone with him but with Deirdre it wasn’t. She made us feel comfortable from the very first day. She is more than a SEIT teacher. She has become like family. Some people are meant to be teachers in this world and Deirdre is just that. She has changed our lives and we are forever grateful for her.