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Schools for disabled fear effects of state cuts

Albertson, NY. Thursday December 17, 2009.

Photo credit: Newsday/photo by Pablo Corradi | Albertson, NY. Thursday December 17, 2009.

Six-year-old Dylan Cuevas needs a portable ventilator to breathe and a motorized wheelchair to move about his classroom at the Henry Viscardi School in Albertson.

Even so, the first-grader looks forward to the day he is old enough to play a modified form of basketball with the school's team - provided recent state budget cuts don't result in the team's elimination.

"I just can't imagine...

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