Gina DeCrescenzo, P.C.

I would like to thank the office of Gina DeCrescenzo PC. Gina has been an outstanding representative for our son and Charlie has been our point of contact. Both Gina and Charlie have been invaluable in ensuring that our son has been able to get the services and be placed in the environment that he needs over the past 5 years. Our son is an environment where he is now thriving thanks to this firm. I have recommended this firm over and over again to friends and acquaintances. I can not thank them enough.

We are incredibly grateful for Gina and her team and the work they did to help our family navigate a tutition reimbursement case against our local school district. From our 1st consultation, it was clear that Gina was not only highly knowledgable about special education law, but also compassionate and committed to advocating for our child. Throughout the process, Gina was honest, strategic, and responsive - helping to prepare for important steps along the way. Thanks to her guidance, we were able to settle with the district. We are so relieved because our child will receive the quality education she needs and deserves. We would highly recommend Gina to any family facing challenges with their school district. Her expertise and support helped to make an overwhelming process seem manageable.

We cannot recommend Gina and her staff enough!! From the initial call with Charlie, to beyond completion of out of district placement for our daughter, we felt guided every step of the way. We appreciate the efficiency and organization of the office, the clear and responsive communication, and most of all Gina’s purposeful and determined approach. We never second guessed entrusting her to advocate for our daughter’s life track. And we’re deeply grateful for all she did!

Gina is the BEST Special Education Attorney! Update: After working with Gina for the past 5 years to ensure that my child received the best education at Windward for his dyslexia diagnosis he has been accepted into Fordham Prep and Iona Prep. It’s only with Gina’s expertise that he was able to attend Windward and have an amazing and life changing educational experience! Gina and her team are very responsive and caring. Gina is extremely knowledgeable and will fight passionately for your child’s rights. She has amazing reviews because she is a STRONG advocate for children. Gina will guide you and inform you about the process and make sure your child receives the proper services. Her tremendous success in my case has changed my child’s life forever! I am so grateful for everything Gina has done for my child!

Thank you Gina for all your support this year for my son in the process of changing schools from a public to a private one. Thanks to your work, my son is receiving the appropriate education. We will always be grateful to you and we hope to always count on you.

Gina is tenacious yet compassionate. She and her staff were truly vested in my son’s struggles and then academic success. I’m grateful for her help and would recommend her firm to any family in a similar situation.

Gina and her team have represented my family in three impartial hearings winning every time. Families need Gina by your side when advocating for your children.

Gina has specialized knowledge of the inner workings of special education and she is extremely savvy about skipping unnecessary delay tactics and moving right to the core of necessary actions. Collecting the documents was a lot of work, but her guidance and support made it manageable. Notably, she was considerate about using her time efficiently to keep costs as low as possible. We simultaneously prepared for a lawsuit and a settlement, and I was very pleased that we were able to reach a settlement with the district that was appropriate for my son. I give her the highest recommendation possible.

Gina provided excellent counsel and was easy to work with.

Gina Decrescenzo is extremely knowledgeable about children who have special needs. She helped me get my child the proper evaluations and placement need. Highly recommend. Thank you!

Gina DeCrescenzo is an excellent Child Advocate for Special Needs! She assisted me with my child education needs for the past 4 years. Gina has an incredible staff. Her secretary Charlie is very friendly and reliable. Gina is extremely helpful, Knowledgeable about the law, and professional. Gina always made time to communicate and kept me in the loops of things. She found time to answer emails, even late at night. Happy with the outcome of my case. She handled my case with excellent care. If you’re looking for an excellent attorney to get the job done….look no further. Gina is the best!!

Gina DeCrescenzo and Charlie have been wonderful to work with. We have been struggling with the BOE for quite some time and knew something wasn't right. Gina is very knowledgeable in her field and has provided us with information in regard to services that we didn't even know our son was entitled to get. Gina understood our needs and had our son's best interest at heart. Thanks to Gina and her Team, our son is finally able to receive the education and services he is entitled to. Our family is forever grateful! Thank you, Gina and Charlie :)

If I could give 10 stars or more I would! Gina is by far the absolute best! She is tough and so confident. She works hard and is on point every step of the way. From the beginning consultation you feel a "winner" already. Charlie is so helpful and responsive. Such a great team and I'm so pleased I chose them. I recommend them to anyone who is willing to put in the time to fight the fight for their child.

Gina has been instrumental in helping us navigate a very complicated and challenging system for our son who has a very complicated and challenging profile. Through our years of working with her, she has helped us obtain specific services for such as Prompt speech therapy documented in our IEP. In addition to being smart, savvy, responsive and knowledgable she is also empathic and kind which makes this grueling experience more palatable. I can't say enough good things about our experience with Gina.

Our children's education is the bedrock of our society's future. Most parents would never hesitate to send their child to college, but few ever imagine they will need the help of an attorney to keep their local district from ostracizing their child, and killing those dreams before they even get started. Your child's education is worth your investment at every stage. Schools should be making decisions based on the best interests of the child, but all too often prioritize what's cheapest and easiest for the school and staff. If you have been disappointed, shocked by what your child is put through at school, if your child is coming home hurt, defeated, angry, humiliated, you need the protection and guidance of Gina DeCrescenzo. She knows what schools are required to do. She will light the way, and not be cowed by the school's excuses. You can't count on the school to provide you with accurate information. Some don't even realize what their obligations are, and what resources are available. With her experience and qualifications to take the fight all the way to court if need be, she knows what needs to be done to ensure your child will receive the educational support they deserve to overcome their challenges, and achieve scholastic success. Worth every penny, and way cheaper than private school. Your child's future is so worth it. Don't give up. Do everything you can to help them succeed.

The absolute best choice I have ever made was working with Gina to help navigate some issues with my childs right to an education. The school district claimed to not have options for my son. Gina gave him an opportunity to to attend an amazing school through the district correctly. He is doing exceptional! It has changed his whole projection for life. I should have done it sooner!! He is thriving more in life then he ever had. Along with that, it has made our familys life so much less stressful and greatly eased navigating policy and rights for our son education. It's a great relief to have Gina's expertise/support. I can't thank her enough

If you ever find yourself in need of an education attorney, you need Gina DeCrescenzo. She was tremendous and if it wasn't for her...well, I hate to think of how things could have turned out. My husband and I had hit a brick wall...no matter the amount of verbal and written communications the District was able to have with the expert parties that they themselves had requested to hear from, it took having Gina at the table to get the District to do the right, and legal, thing by our child. Gina fights for your child like they're her own. And not only does she fight for your child, she looks after the family as well...a hug in the school hallway for reassurance or a phone call to check-in on us after a contentious CSE meeting went a long way in soothing our frazzled nerves and emotions. Hiring Gina was absolutely the best decision we made in our dealings with our District's CSE. I only wish we had found and hired her sooner. --Dana R., client

Over 10 years ago I met with Gina DeCrescenzo to discuss my son's case that existed with his school district. Prior to meeting with her, things were very frustrating with the district and I really worried about what the future held in store for my son. In the time that I worked with her, she secured an Individualized Educational Evaluation for our son for OT, Speech, Psychological and ABA evaluations from some of the best people in the Hudson Valley. Through this, my son was given the proper classification and the opportunity to thrive. Though no journey is bump-free, my son is now getting ready to graduate from high school and his future is beyond great. All of his teachers see amazing things for him due to his passion and intellect, along with great empathy for the needs of others. As a parent, I know I had a part to play in all of this, but so did Gina. If you are looking for someone to help your child achieve everything they can be, look no further than reaching out to her for all of your legal needs.

Ever since my son was diagnosed with autism at 18 months old my wife and I have been navigating through the process of finding therapists and overcoming obstacles for his education. We’ve had consultations with attorneys along this journey and was met with lackluster prospects and slim hope for my son getting the help he needs. That all changed when we were referred to Gina DeCrescenzo. During our first consultation she demonstrated compassion and the depth of her legal expertise was self evident. She concluded that meeting by stating she is in the business of winning, and she has won for our son in every measurable way. She prepared a top level case for him and did so in a timely manner. Her amazing paralegal Charlene was able to connect us with expert therapists for evaluations and a variety of support resources, along with diligently responding to our numerous emails. And when the time came for our hearing against the department of education, not only did she win our case, she secured us a resolution with so many extraordinary benefits for our son that we never thought possible. This entire experience has been life changing for us and has finally given us hope for our son’s future. For all this we are forever grateful to Gina DeCrescenzo and her dedicated team. We cannot recommend her and her practice enough to any families with special needs children. She is in fact in the business of winning.