About Us of working with the developmentally disabled, she is of Monmouth Community Playersin Monmouth, maine, and acts play ing, she works with special needs children. http://openbookplayers.org/aboutus.htm
Extractions: Open Book Players was founded early in 1996 by a small group of community theatre actors living in Maine. Each member of this core group, which constitutes the board of directors, has made a commitment to the special demands and techniques of Readers Theatre presentation. To see a list of other actors and technicians who have worked with Open Book Players, take a few minutes to visit our Scrapbook Mitzi Daggett joined OBP in 1996 as an original member of the Board of Directors and has appeared in most OBP productions since then. She's employed full time at the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office.Mitzi previously worked for Union 44 as an Education Technician with the Title One Program. Mitzi relaxes at her lakeside home in Litchfield with Steve her husband of 31 years. They have 3 wonderful sons and one neat grandson Daggett (Secretary) Bob cut his theatre teeth in the early forties with the Augusta Players. After a stint at WRDO, he joined the Navy and was 'temporarily' assigned as an actor and director with the USN Broadcast Recruiting arm in New York. A hundred radio dramas later he was assigned to Weather School (?). After discharge Bob worked at WTVL, WCSH and WLAM. He's been married to Kay since 1947 and lives in Gardiner, Maine.
Alphabetized Book List With Author Gail Jacob Children with special needs A Navy for ..maine's SecondaryStudents by maine's Commission on A Guide for Recently disabled Adults and http://www.pal-ri.org/booklistpage.htm
Post-Crescent - Learnings Costly Curve Part of the solution may be labeling fewer students as disabled. maine. specialeducationresearch is not rigorous or coordinated enough to support needs of 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.
People With Special Needs Down Syndrome Report February 1999 that try (or actually hire) disabled people who Based on special Education enrollmentsand SSA for adults In all, except Minnesota, Colorado, maine and Wisconsin http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/pwsnmar96.html
Extractions: VOL. 16 #1 March 1996 EDUCATING RAFAEL. The 1-17-96 EDUCATION WEEK contains this article on DS/INCLUSION, plus OBERTI AND THE LAW (the case is one of 1/2 dozen on inclusion). The case indicates schools have the burden to prove why a student should not be included in a regular classroom. The Oberti's first took the school to court five years earlier, but lost. The Appeals judge in '92 said: "Inclusion is a right, not a privilege for a select few." The author (Lynn Schnaiberg) says the two sides to the case are speaking in different languages: the school saw Rafael as half-empty, but his parents saw him as half-full. In concluding OBERTI AND THE LAW Schnaiberg says: "Regardless of where educators stand philosophically on inclusion, many disability-rights advocates have made the link between inclusion and racial desegregation. And they warn that if schools don't move fast enough to better integrate their disabled children, the courts may step in to do the job for them." See Page 776 of the 21/28 December '95 NATURE for this report by the Harvard Department of Neurology (Bruce Yanker, Enders 260, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115). In the final paragraph the authors state that "increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) may contribute to abnormal brain developmental and mental retardation in DS." Their final sentence says, "if there is in vivo confirmation then the neuro protective effects of antioxidants may provide an important therapeutic approach to mental retardation and the prevention of Alzheimer's disease in DS individuals."
Helping Children And Families 813 children, including many with special needs and from low of Hospice Volunteersin Mid Coast maine) 45 Baribeau Her disabled father, unable to work regularly http://www.uwmcm.org/prod01.htm
Extractions: Our mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities. Top Click Above For a Success Story United Way helps babies and their parents off to the best possible start in life, provides quality care and nurturing activities as they grow older, and offers at-risk youth mentors and other support to help them reach their full potential. Some examples of results last year: 460 visits were made to mothers of newborn babies that increase parenting skills and infants' healthy development. 813 children, including many with special needs and from low-income families, received high-quality child care, to help them develop to their fullest potential. 424 children were matched one-on-one in Big Brothers or Big Sisters traditional or site-based programs, making them less likely to skip school or start using drugs or alcohol, and more likely to do well in school and have positive relationships with parents and friends. Over 7,000 young people had a chance for healthy activities in a supportive environment such as the YMCA and Girl Scouts, and decreased their chances of risky behaviors.
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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.
Special Needs Family Friendly Fun - Recreational Recreation fun of family life for special needs families. and sporting activities, in both disabledand able Web Site contains information about maine Handicapped Skiing http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/links/recreationalrecreation.html
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 Recreational Recreation links:
MaineToday.com | Portland Press Herald News Archive put together a gift package for a disabled 11year Letters sent by parents from acrossMaine demonstrate the need. two boys, one of whom is a special needs child http://www.portland.com/news/toyfund/021215bruce.shtml
Extractions: The page you are looking for has either been moved, taken down or a technical problem is preventing it from appearing. Try the MaineToday.com index of sites , or visit our page of frequently asked questions for tips on searching our site. (Unfortunately, we do not have a search engine on our site.) If you are looking for a story that has appeared in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, please try the Portland Press Herald archive system . You may search the archives for free but there is a $2.00 charge to download a complete story. For information about advertising on the Web, please visit our Web advertising section, or call our offices at (207) 822-4060. You can also send e-mail to info@mainetoday.com , but due to the volume of e-mail we receive we cannot guarantee an immediate response. News from the past seven days is available online for free. If you're trying to get to an older story, try these links: News: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Special Services of Bremen, Bristol, Damariscotta, Newcastle, Nobleboro, and South Bristol, maine. withchildren who are not disabled, and that special education, separate http://www.schoolunion74.org/services.htm
Extractions: (Great Salt Bay is the default school department name.) INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS PHYSICAL RESTRAINT PROGRAMMING IN THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT DISCIPLINARY REMOVAL OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ... CHILD FIND POLICY for more information contact Karen Ropes , Assistant Superintendent INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS It shall be the policy of Great Salt Bay School Department to maintain a complete individualized education program ("IEP") for each student who has been identified with a disability and in need of special education services under state and federal special education laws, and who is in attendance at Great Salt Bay School Departments public schools. Great Salt Bay School Department shall develop these IEPs in a manner consistent with the procedural requirements of state and federal special education laws.
Subject Index To The Laws Of Maine - 2nd Reg. & 2nd Spec. Of 118th SEE maine DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION. DIG SAFE LAWS disabled PERSONS ADVOCACY FOR SPECIALNEEDS STUDENTS ..P S 84 DISCIPLINE IN schools ..PUBLIC 594. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ros/lom/LOM118th/LOM97Index2-03.htm
Education Week -- Politics Watch 2000: Special Education with relatively small populations of disabled students and programs that help identifyspecial education students a speech presented in Portland, maine, June 15 http://www.edweek.org/context/politics/pol_specialed.htm
Extractions: Bush Gov. Bush is advancing what he calls his "New Freedom Initiative," a five-year, $880 million plan to provide assistance to Americans with disabilities. Arguing that the federal government is failing to meet the needs of disabled students, Mr. Bush promises that he would work with Congress to increase IDEA funding. His plan would target funding toward preventive efforts to identify children with special needs, with the aim of relieving states of the costs of providing long-term educational assistance. Mr. Bush has pledges to increase the budget of the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitative Research, a federal agency within the Department of Education that investigates assistive technologies and sponsors innovative programs for the disabled. Gore Demonstrating his commitment to the IDEA, Mr. Gore proposes the largest-ever increase in funding available for special education students. At the same time, the vice president expresses concern over how the cost of special education might affect public schools. To help ease the financial burden on states, Mr. Gore pledges to increase funding for class-size reduction and after-school programs. And, to help districts with relatively small populations of disabled students and budgets already stretched thin, the vice president proposes the creation of IDEA "funding pools" that would be managed by the states and allocated according to need.
Doxys - Resources For The Disabled Office of special Education Programs Dept of Ed (US); Rehabilitation ServicesAdministration disabled Outoor Experiences - maine (US); disabled http://www.growing.com/doxys/disabled.html
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Stateline.org: Lobbying Season Opens For Special Education the full cost of educating learning disabled children even billion to educate the5.6 million special-needs kids t really change the cost of special education http://www.stateline.org/story.do?storyId=225070
Maine Marks download and print the complete maine Marks report Children With special EducationNeeds Entering School; Reading Hate Crimes; Employment Rates Of The disabled. http://www.mainemarks.org/indicators/indi_main.htm
Extractions: Indicators You can now download the full text-version of this document: indicators.pdf You can download and print the complete Maine Marks report as a PDF document. You will need Adobe Reader loaded on your computer to view the document. You can obtain a free copy of Adobe Reader at www.adobe.com Download the complete document now: mainemarks.pdf Youth Feeling Important Youth Opportunity For Community Involvement Youth With Caring Neighbors Youth Respecting Others ... Youth With Positive Adults In Their Lives Children With Special Education Needs Entering School Reading To Children Children Showing Appropriate Progress Opportunities For Expanded Day Kindergarten ... Teachers With Early Childhood Certification Outcome: Children succeeding in school and schools succeeding for children.
*Imagine* Links To G/T Organizations Florida Association for the Gifted; maine Educators of the Group for Gifted/LearningDisabled; Uniquely Gifted Resources for Gifted/special needs Children; http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/linkG.htm
1st District Of Maine 31No. 25. Message to maine We know now that even the most disabled child is capableof learning, and that early and sustained special education can http://graynews.maine.com/1999-06-18/message_to_maine.html
Extractions: Message to Maine Congressman Tom Allen Splitting the Tab for Special Education When I was a boy in the Portland public schools, children with severe disabilities were nowhere to be seen. Students with learning or emotional disorders were there, but rarely got the special attention they needed. Today, all that has changed. We know now that even the most disabled child is capable of learning, and that early and sustained special education can make an enormous difference. Those whose educational needs would have been ignored in times past are living productive and independent lives, contributing to their communities and families. Even children with profound limitations are making gains that enable them to reach higher and more satisfying levels of development. Sometimes it has been painful and expensive to include these youngsters in the public schools. But we have made the commitment to provide special education services and we will not return to our previous neglect of these children. This commitment was undertaken in Maine a quarter of a century ago. A year later, Congress enacted the Education for all Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), to assure that all children with disabilities have available to them ... a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs. Along with this mandate, the law set a goal of federal funding to pay 40 percent of the cost of special education.
