Searchalot Directory For Support louisiana Families Helping Families of louisiana centers are a board for parentsof special education students and Referral Source for K-12 disabled Children. http://www.searchalot.com/Top/Reference/Education/SpecialEducation/Support/
Extractions: Home Search News Email Greetings Weather ... Global All the Internet About AltaVista AOL Search Ask Jeeves BBC Search BBC News Business Dictionary Discovery Health Dogpile CheckDomain CNN Corbis eBay Education World Employment Encyclopedia Encarta Excite Fast Search FindLaw FirstGov Google Google Groups Infomine iWon Librarians Index Looksmart Lycos Metacrawler Microsoft Northern Light Open Directory SearchEdu SearchGov Shareware Teoma Thesaurus Thunderstone WayBackMachine Webshots WiseNut Yahoo! Yahoo! Auctions Yahoo! News Yahooligans Zeal Sponsored Links Top Reference Education Special Education : Support Related Web Sites Federation for Children with Special Needs - A center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. (Massachusetts) The Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers - Their mission is: "To provide training and information to meet the needs of parents of children with disabilities living in the area served by the center." Parent Training and Information (PTI) programs are funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Dept of Ed. To locate a PTI program near you, click on the Parent Center Directory circle. It is a listing of parent centers serving families of children and youth with disabilities around the country. Included in the directory are links to other parent centers' web sites.
Parenting Made Easier: Parenting Links Agricultural Center at louisiana State University; Albuquerque Character WrightslawThe special Ed Advocate. Assistance Animals for the disabled, Blind and http://fcs.okstate.edu/parenting/links/
Extractions: PARENTING LINKS Building Character Children and Family Advocacy Children with Special Needs Diabetes National and Local Sites ... Service Animals Building Character LSU AgCenter Character Critters Program Center for Character Development Agricultural Center at Louisiana State University Albuquerque Character Counts! ... CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition, a project of the Josephson Institute of Ethics Children and Family Advocacy Children with Special Needs Diabetes National and Local Sites Education American Academy of Pediatrics Association on Higher Education and Disability Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Council for Exceptional Children ... U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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Extractions: Maywood, NJ 07607 Personal: Wife: Georgette Dickman, M.A., LDT/C, Dyslexia Specialist Children: Emerson IV, Jennifer, Jessica, David Grandchild: Isabella Education: C.W. Post College of Long Island University, B.S. in Industrial Engineering, 1965; Rutgers Law School, Newark, J.D., 1972; New Jersey Bar, 1972; U.S. District Court for District of New Jersey, 1972; New York Bar, 1985; U.S. Court of Appeals 3 rd Circuit, 1986. Area of Specialization: Representation of individuals with disabilities and their families. Current Affiliations and Activities: International Dyslexia Association , Executive board member (Vice President). National Center for Learning Disabilities , Professional Advisory Board. New Jersey Branch of the IDA, board member. International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council , Ethics Committee. 32° The Masonic Learning Centers for Children, Inc. Tenafly location, Board of Governors.
Post-Crescent - Learnings Costly Curve Part of the solution may be labeling fewer students as disabled. louisiana. specialeducationresearch is not rigorous or coordinated enough to support http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_4981028.shtml
Extractions: Post-Crescent staff writer Freedom made the commitment to ensure all children equal access to a public education well before state and federal governments made it law in the early 1970s, he said. Yet, in times of tight budgets there is no denying the mounting cost of educating everyone from the blind, deaf and medically fragile to children with cognitive and emotional disabilities and speech delays. While Congress considers reauthorizing the 28-year-old law now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), area school systems are picking up the bulk of the bill for an ever-growing number of special-education children. Two dozen Fox Valley school districts spent more than $62 million in district, state and federal dollars in the 2000-01 school year to educate 7,597 students with disabilities, according to the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. In the coming school year, Freedom, with a total enrollment of 1,590, will spend $1.9 million of its $12.2 million operational budget educating 215 children with disabilities.
Computer Science Details , Mainstreaming disabled Students in Regular , Seminar In special EducationGifted and Talented (Northwestern State University (louisiana, USA)). http://www.ed-x.com/courselistings/educationdetails.asp?SubCatID=154
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Extractions: §1946. Least restrictive environment A. To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, shall be educated with children who are not disabled, and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment shall occur only when the nature or severity of the disability of a child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily. B.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section to the contrary, the Department of Education shall provide for the operation of one or more residential schools for the education of children with hearing or visual impairments who are unable to take advantage of the regular educational facilities provided in the community, and shall provide in connection therewith such academic, vocational, and other related services as may be required. Children shall be eligible for admission to such schools only after proper diagnosis and evaluation in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Department of Education.
Extractions: Tackling over 400 bills, lawmakersworked down to the wire to reach agreement onhow to best spend taxpayer dollars at the 1998Regular Session of the State Legislature. As youmay remember this session was limited by theState Constitution to consideration of statespending and specific tax matters. However, thefiscal session debate involved more than justdollars and cents. Indeed, the dollars and cents news wasgood this session. For the fourth year in a row,the state had a budget surplus to help pay offstate construction debt and free up money forother important needs. Additionally, increasedincome tax and sales tax collections this fiscalyear along with efficiencies in state agencies,freed up more tax dollars to pay off even morestate debt. And with continuing good economictimes and a commitment to preserving ourexisting tax base, the states financial situation islooking fairly stable in the coming fiscal year. The challenge facing lawmakers at thefiscal session was deciding how much money thestate needed to provide services to citizens; howbest to collect those revenues and how best tofocus the available dollars on Louisiana'simmediate and long-term needs.
USF Special Education - Faculty - Harris National Association of Adventist Dentist, New Orleans, louisiana. for Learningdisabled Students for disabled Students A Black Caucus of special Education. http://www.coedu.usf.edu/deptspeced/faculty/harrisvita.html
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.
Extractions: Our mission is to: enable families with special needs to share their experiences by subscribing to our newsletter , joining our eGroup forum, talking in our chat room and posting to our bulletin board ; offer information on a wide variety of family fun and special needs topics ; and facilitate access via rings and links to websites relevant to special needs families. Adoption Arts Crafts Babies Charities ... Work at home Other important Assistive technology links:
ADHDNEWS.COM Lots Of Links of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, louisiana, or Arkansas For the Family with the SpecialChild Information for gifted and learning disabled children. http://www.adhdnews.com/llinfo.html
One Mold Charters Can't Break It's in compliance with the louisiana state charter by the need to accommodate disabledstudents solutions, for instance, by pooling specialeducation resources http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/01/09/p11s1.htm
Extractions: Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK The United Charter School is designed to serve 1,200 children in a low-income neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. It is widely supported by area residents, who are almost entirely African-American. It's in compliance with the Louisiana state charter law. See csmonitor.com's black history project Yet the school's doors remain shut. The reason: United Charter runs afoul of a federal desegregation order requiring a racial balance in the parish's public schools. The US Department of Justice argues that the school will not attract enough white students. The case has created a situation some call absurd. "You won't find 10 people in this parish, black or white, who are in agreement with what's being done," says Jim Geiser, one of United's organizers.
Extractions: Internet: http://ericec.org What are some of the pros and cons of inclusive school programs? (From Handbook for Successful Inclusion. Kochhar and West. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 200 Orchard Ridge Drive, Suite 200, Gaithersburg, MD 20878) Following are links to ERIC digests, minibibliographies, frequently asked questions (FAQs), related Internet resources, and Internet discussion groups, as well as selected citations from the ERIC database and the search terms we used to find the citations. ERIC Digests (http://ericec.org/digests/prodfly.html)
Presidents Commission On Excellence In Special Education a longterm consultant with the louisiana, California and 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.
Extractions: President Bush has named a 42 member Commission on Excellence in Education which is to study and recommend changes in eligibility and funding formulae governing Special Education. This Commission is to help the Adminstration prepare for the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) which must occur next year, 2002. People with disabilities and their representatives should communicate their positions to Commission members, particularly those members from their home state. For addition information, please see the October 18, 2001 issue of Washington Watch In addition to his efforts in restoring Iowas economic stature, he emphasized the need for all children in the state to receive the highest quality education, no matter what their ability and circumstances of birth. He led the effort that built a statewide fiber optics network to provide distance learning opportunities to every school district, college and university in the state of Iowa.
Louisiana Tech University: Office Of Disability Services of their disability to the louisiana Tech Traffic regarded as giving the student specialprivileges, but disabled students must adhere to the same codes http://www.latech.edu/ods/student-rights2.html
Extractions: In 1973, Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Included in the Act is Section 504, a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of physical or mental disability. Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is regarded as the first national level civil rights legislation for people with disabilities. It states: 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... The Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education enforces regulations implementing Section 504 with respect to programs and activities that receive funding from the Department. Section 504 regulation applies to all recipients of this funding, including colleges, universities, and postsecondary vocational education programs. Failure by these higher education schools to provide auxiliary aids to students with disabilities that result in a denial of a program benefit in discriminatory and prohibited by Section 504. Under Section 504, institutions are required to appoint and maintain at least one person to coordinate its efforts to comply with the requirements of regulation. This position has the responsibility of assuring that the institution adheres to the practices of nondiscrimination on the basis of disability and include grievance procedures to address concerns. Louisiana Tech University has established the position of Office of Disability Services (ODS). The ODS office is currently located in 319 Wyly Tower and may be reached at (318) 257-4221 or through the office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs in 1653 Wyly Tower and may be reached at (318) 257-4262.
ECC Brief Template Kentucky, louisiana, and South Carolina made leaps in three high school students asdisabled. resulting deregulation, competition for special student applicants http://www.education-consumers.com/briefs/Sept2001.shtm
Extractions: KASA is proud to announce that after a lengthy and difficult selection process, we have added four new members to our National Advisory Board. They are: Blake Bogartus, 18 years old, from Alabama Mara Buchbinder, 20 years old, from New Hampshire Micah Fialka-Feldman, 17 years old, from Michigan Amanda Putz, 15 years old, from New York These folks join our 5 other Board members in doing long and short term planning for KASA and representing us at national meetings. We have also elected new co-chairs for the 2002 year, Maia Wroblewski and Naomi Ortiz. You can read more about our new Board members and co-chairs on our website in January. We thank all of you who helped to distribute our application and especially to those of you who applied to be on the Board. We receiving an incredible number of applications and the selection process was very competitive. We hope that all of you will continue to make a difference in your communities and to be active members of KASA at every opportunity. DISABILITY PREPAREDNESS WEBSITE The Disability Preparedness Website is up and running. This website features the article, Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities and Other Special Needs, by Dr. Carl T. Cameron, President, Board of Directors for the Inclusion Research Institute. Users will also find resources for training, products, articles and websites. For more information visit their
Extractions: February 18, 2000 Good Morning. Madam Chair and Commissioners, thank you for inviting me to participate in this panel. My name is Lilliam Rangel-Diaz. I am a parent of six boys, two of them with disabilities. I was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the National Council on Disability, the independent federal agency that provides advice to the President and Congress on all issues related to individuals with disabilities of all ages and all backgrounds. I am originally from Cuba and I live in Miami, Florida, where I work as an advocate for students with disabilities and their parents. It seems that school districts have become very good at bypassing the "bureaucratic hurdles posed by IDEA," as Ms. Bond referred to, of disciplining students with disabilities, as students with disabilities are the most affected especially those from poor and diverse cultural backgrounds. The suspension and expulsion rates of students with disabilities is double that of their non-disabled peers. For example, in the State of Florida, in the 1998-1999 school year, 13.2 percent of disabled students received in-school suspensions while only 7.5 percent non-disabled students received in-school suspensions; 14.9 percent of disabled students received out of school suspensions, while only 6.6 percent of non-disabled students received out of school suspensions. These figures were reported to the Office of Special Education Programs.
