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Only In Print: Dance School, Catholic Student Volunteers, Provide Disabled Kids Opportunity to be Ballet Dancers

The dance lessons always bring smiles to the faces of students like Jana Ahamed with volunteer instructor Kayla Vincent. (Photo:Paula Katinas)

BAYSIDE — Joann Ferrara, a pediatric physical therapist, met a little girl with cerebral palsy many years ago who told her something that inspired her to start a dancing school for the disabled.

The child, who was charmingly dressed in a ballet tutu, told Ferrera, “I wish I could be a dancer, but nobody wants to dance with me.”

“She stirred something in me,” Ferrara recalled…


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