The Brooklyn Heights Montessori school in Cobble Hill Brooklyn runs a much admired program called The Little Room for 3- and 4-year-olds with
speech and language delays

The Little Room started out as a small room in the school’s Bergen Street building in 1970. Now it  enrolls 27 kids and occupies a larger space in the school.

This morning an OTBKB reader directed me to an article in Sunday’s Times about a plan by the administration of Brooklyn Height Montessori to terminate The Little Room, a program that was emblematic of the school’s inclusionary atmosphere.

She has a son enrolled in The Little Room. She writes: "A lot of kids all over Brooklyn are enrolled, as well. I thought this might be of interest
to your readers – it’s going to affect a lot of families around the
borough, and in Manhattan and Queens too."

Behind a red door at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, a half-dozen preschoolers who once struggled to talk merrily sang “Jingle Bells” the other morning.

Two parents of Little Room students, Ebony Santos, left, and Matilda
Garrido, with some of the children in the program, which helps 3- and
4-year-olds who have speech and language delays.

They are among 27 special needs children enrolled in the Little Room,
which takes its name from the small room where it started in 1970 and
has become a nationally recognized program for 3- and 4-year-olds with
speech and language delays across Brooklyn and Manhattan. But the fate
of the much-loved program, which one expert said is more difficult to
get into than Harvard,
is unclear, as the school that has long run it, Brooklyn Heights
Montessori, has decided it can no longer keep it in its red-brick
complex at the intersection of Court and Bergen Streets.