A group of kids in Port Chester got a jump on Sunday’s big fund-raising walk for autism research by holding a school dance-a-thon and raising more than $1,000 for the cause.
Dana Teller, a special ed teacher aide at the Park Avenue School, sent us some photos of the action from May 26. About 190 children in the OASIS after school program took part.
Check out Brandon Molano and Jennifer Segura, in the photos, showing their best moves.
Sunday’s walk and community-resource fair, organized by the group Autism Speaks, will be at New York Presbyterian Hospital in White Plains. The campus will be home to a new Institute for Brain Development, focusing on autism treatment and research, sometime in late 2012.
Teller will be taking part in the walk with Emil’s Extreme Team, inspired by 18-year-old Rye Brook resident Emil Jensen. He and his mother, Doris Perez, have been working hard to support autism research. A few years back, they pressed for the Empire State Building to be lit up in blue every Aug. 1 and 2, symbolizing World Autism Awareness Day. Read more about them in this Journal News story.
