Extractions: COURSE DESCRIPTION This program is offered for .1 CEUs or 1 hour of continuing professional development (Introductory Level: Professional area). Price: $29.00 This course describes and corrects common misunderstandings or "myths" about the impact and sequelae of brain injuries among children and adolescents. These inaccurate beliefs commonly present barriers to recognizing their special educational needs. An overview of changes in learning, behavior and emotions is presented with checklists of warning signs, changes to consider in the classroom and illustrative case examples. Strategies for talking with parents are given to facilitate collaborataive rather than adversarial relationships in the IEP process. This course is intended for speech and language pathologists who are involved with students with brain injuries. It is also for educators who are inexperienced in brain injury. See course outline below.
Section 504 Education John S. Allen University of iowa College of a). A school must ensure thata disabled child participates or are believed to need, special education or http://www.uiowa.edu/infotech/Section504.htm
Extractions: What is Section 504? Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the first significant federal legislation to prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities. It applies to programs and entities that receive federal financial assistance. No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States,..., shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance... 29 U.S.C. § 794(a)) Who is covered by Section 504? Section 504 generally covers "qualified" persons with disabilities. The coverage of Section 504 is broader than the coverage under IDEA. Any child eligible for special education under IDEA should be covered under 504. The converse, however, is not true not all children protected by 504 are in need of or entitled to special education. Any school age child with a "disability", as defined in the law, is covered. What does Section 504 do?
The Interdisciplinary Council On Developmental And Learning of Education University of Northern iowa Cedar Falls The Child with special NeedsEncouraging Intellectual and No Easy Answers The Learning disabled Child at http://icdl.com/forparentsbyparents/law/lawcontent.htm
Therapy/Respite Camps: Kids With Autism And Other Special Needs A page with information about summer camps for kids with special needs focus on therapy for kids with special needs and/or respite for the kids and Atlantic Coast special Educational Services provides full time, summer respite residential services http://www.wmoore.net/therapy.html
Extractions: Therapy/Respite Camps for Kids This page evolves as people tell me about new camps, so if you know of camps that are not listed here, please email me so I can get the information posted here. If you direct a camp that would like a simple WWW page that describes your camp, I'll be pleased to put one up just email a description of the camp to me. Also, please let me know about any other WWW resources to which I should have a link. Thanks! Information about summer camps that focus on therapy for kids with special needs and/or respite for the kids and their families. I have broken it into national categories and regional categories in the USA: Apologies in advance if my sense of these regions differs from yours! I also have some links to other potentially useful pages Connecticut Camp Horizons provides winter weekend get-a-ways, a week long holiday event, and 8 weeks of residential summer camp for children and adults who are mild to moderately mentally handicapped. In South Windham, CT. Camp Hemlocks , in Hebron, is a rustic, barrier-free, year-round camping facility which provides recreational, educational and social programs for children and adults with disabilities and their families.
Accessible Summer Recreation Camp Courageous of iowa. Giving Luxury Auto Donations Through your donations toSpecial Kids Fund's care, camp and research for developmentally disabled and at http://specialchildren.about.com/library/weekly/aa060599.htm
Extractions: Advertisement Accessible Summer Recreation Summer is upon us! Our children are lamenting, "They're borrrrrrrrred, they have nothing to do." The structure that many of our special children need has been replaced with the lazy days of summer. Planning family activities around the special needs of your child can at times; become mind boggling. Have you ever arrived at your destination only to find out that special accommodations are limited? One year, I took my three kids in wheelchairs to an out of state zoo. Much to our dismay, the guard rails were level with their eye gaze. What a disappointment. It doesn't have to be though, we just need to take care in planning and calling ahead
Education And Research About The Disabled concerning the education of the disabled and/or exchange programs (with a specialemphasis on of Developmental Disabilities from the iowa University Affiliated http://www.cio.noaa.gov/hpcc/access/educate.htm
Extractions: The following is a list of sites concerning the education of the disabled and/or research into disabilities. The content of this page was gleaned primarily from a couple of excellent resources elsewhere on the Internet. Barrier-Free Education This site has been designed to contain resources for the inclusion of students with disabilities into math and science education Valdosta State University Special Services Program Parents of blind children in Illinoismany interesting sites Disability Resource Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Window) a recently launched pilot project aimed at supporting teachers of students with special needs through distance education An excellent list of schools for the Blind in the United States Deafblind Online Mobility International U.S.A. is an excellent resource for anything to do with issues relating to adapting and including persons with disabilities into international exchange programs (with a special emphasis on students). Division of Developmental Disabilities from the Iowa University Affiliated Program The Institute on Community Integration A University Affiliate Program at the University of Minnesota dedicated to improving community services and social supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families The University of Kansas, SPED ON-LINE
Community Colleges to twelve counties; all of iowa's 99 counties Community colleges also offer specialprograms for programs; supplementary services to disabled and disadvantaged http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ccwp/cc/
Extractions: Education Community Colleges Overview Iowa has a statewide system of 15 community colleges. These public, postsecondary, two-year institutions are organized as comprehensive community colleges. Each college serves a multi-county merged area which may vary in size from four to twelve counties; all of Iowa's 99 counties are included in one of these merged areas. Community colleges are governed by locally elected boards of directors that consist of from five to nine members who are elected for terms of three years. Each community college offers a comprehensive educational program. All Iowans of postsecondary school age are eligible to attend any of the community colleges. Community colleges also offer special programs for students who attend local secondary schools. Community colleges have an "open-door" admission policy which guarantees Iowans an opportunity for educational assistance and career development regardless of previous educational attainment. To implement this policy, community colleges offer: assistance in developing skills necessary for success in preparatory career and college parallel programs; supplementary services to disabled and disadvantaged students; and a variety of other support services designed to help students succeed.
Inclusion - Legal Requirements And What They Mean To Educators at UNI and one of five iowa administrative law to make greater efforts to mainstreamdisabled student s or so great that even a halftime special education and http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/legal/
Extractions: Legal Requirements/Court Cases The most current language of the federal mandate concerning inclusive education comes from the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). These federal regulations include rulings that guide the regulation. The IDEA r equires that children with disabilities be educated in regular education classrooms unless "the nature and severity of the disability is such that education in the regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfac torily." This means that schools have a duty to try to include students with disabilities in the regular general education classes. http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/IDEA/q_and_a.html. The IDEA states: "Each State must establish procedures to assure that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities ... are educated with children who are not disabled, and that special education, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disa bilities from the regular educational environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily." 20 U.S.C. 1412(5)(B). Dr. Susan Etscheidt, professor of special education at UNI and one of five Iowa administrative law judges, notes that in one of the first court cases to question the legal interpretation of the 1990 IDEA the Supreme Court said no one is excluded from t his requirements; everyone is entitled to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE).
Extractions: Hearing discussing the recommendations of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education Testimony was heard from the Commission's Chair (Terry Branstad, former Governor of Iowa), Douglas Gill (Chair, Finance Task Force and Washington State Director of Special Education), and Douglas Huntt (Chair, Transition Task Force). The three guiding themes of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education final report are: 1. Focusing on results, not on process 3. Considering children with disabilities as general education children first (The full Report is available at http://www.ed.gov/inits/commissionsboards/whspecialeducation/reports/pcesefinalreport.pdf Senators were critical of the omission of mandatory full funding as a Report recommendation. The Commissioners emphasized that their recommendations were aimed at shifting the perception of special education funding away from "underfunded mandates to reimbursement for results." Commissioner Gill stated that "reimbursement of past expenses will continue past performance," and that past performance was not acceptable (based on overidentification, misidentification and graduation rates). Reform and funding are intimately linked in the Report (just as with No Child Left Behind).
Presidents Commission On Excellence In Special Education He is a native of Leland, iowa, and he and his that most of these children were notdisabled but merely The districts special education rate decreased to 9 http://www.tash.org/govaffairs/spedcommission.htm
Extractions: Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities since 1975. Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa - Chair Governor Branstad served four consecutive four-year terms as the chief executive of the state of Iowa. He completed his term of office in January of 1999. While in office, Governor Branstad made education a top priority of his administration. His leadership capabilities have been recognized through his chairmanship of the National Governors Association (NGA) (1989), and of the Republican Governors Association (1997), and his leadership in education is exemplified by his chairmanship of the Education Commission of the States (1998). As NGA chairman, he led the historic 1989 education summit in Charlottesville, Va. With the support of President Bush, the summit called for the development of performance-based National Education Goals. Those goals were subsequently adopted by the NGA in 1990. Governor Branstad has had careers as a farmer and an attorney and served his country with the U.S. Army from 1969-1971. He is a native of Leland, Iowa, and he and his wife, Chris, have three grown children. Adela Acosta of Maryland Steve Bartlett of Texas Steve Bartlett currently serves as president of the Financial Services Roundtable. He reorganized the membership base to include select member companies from all sectors of the financial services industry. Prior to that he was mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1991-1995 and was a member of the United States Congress. A native Texan, Bartlett learned the value of hard work growing up on a small farm near Lockhart in south central Texas before moving to Dallas.
Iowa State University Courses And Programs 1997-1999 iowa State University Courses and Programs 19971999. (Same as Sp Ed 457.) SeeSpecial Education. strategies for moderately and severely disabled readers. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~catalog/9799/eled.html
Extractions: 97-99 Catalog Home Index of Departments Schedule of Classes General Course Info ... Graduate Courses El Ed 115. First Year Orientation. Cr. R. F.S. Overview of elementary education, curricular opportunities, transitions to college and community life, and university procedures. Required of all freshmen majoring in elementary education. Offered on a satisfactory-fail grading basis only. El Ed 201. Introduction to Instructional Technology. (Same as SecEd 201.) (2-2) Cr. 3. Overview of instructional technology, with an emphasis on uses in education. Instructional applications of computers for computer-based learning including tool software, interactive multimedia, use of digital video and sound, graphics, compact discs, and laser discs. Pedagogical considerations in the use of technology. Preparation of teaching materials. Laboratory work with hardware and software that facilitate teaching and learning. Materials fee. El Ed 204. Social Foundations of American Education. (Same as SecEd 204.) See
Professional Books plan for gifted children from special populations, including minorities, the learningdisabled, preschoolers, the iowa Acceleration Scale Manual; A Guide for http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/professional_books.htm
Extractions: Hoagies WWW Amazon.com, earth's biggest (discount!) bookstore. Most of the books listed are Amazon.com links; click to go to a specific title, and make your purchase immediately from the first Amazon screen to give a small percentage of your purchase proceeds to Hoagies' Gifted Education Page through Amazon's Associates program Thanks! Abebooks, the world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books. Abebooks connects those who buy books with those who sell them, providing abundant selection at affordable prices. Out of print books are often available through Abebooks; Hoagies' Gifted Education Page is also an Abebooks Associate Thanks!
