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Manhattan family sues after autistic child rejected by preschool
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Fnew_york&id=9530528"A 3-year old was denied entry into a private school after the child was diagnosed with autism, and now the family is fighting back.
The boy was diagnosed after he was accepted to the Washington Market preschool in Tribeca.
This may be the first case of its kind in the country, a federal discrimination lawsuit claiming that a private pre-school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The family was stunned that the school rejected their son Owen, without ever even meeting him.
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