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Cover Story - College Choices For Students With Special Needs students, but for those with special needs, this shift University (www.gallaudet.edu)in washington DC has which has enabled thousands of disabled students to http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/aug02/htmls/coverg_colleges.html
Extractions: By Zaher Karp College is the anticipated fork in the road for many students, but for those with special needs, this shift is far more uncertain. For students who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), dyslexia, or another learning disability, what are their postsecondary education options? Several programs and schools have been established to cater specifically to students with disabilities, including Gallaudet University, Landmark College, and the SALT program at the University of Arizona. Founded in 1864 by an act of Congress, Gallaudet University (www.gallaudet.edu) in Washington D.C. has been dedicated to the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The bill was signed by Abraham Lincoln, and Gallaudet College was born. It remained Gallaudet College until 1986, where another act of Congress approved university status. Gallaudet University remains the only liberal arts University for the deaf in the entire world, said Mercy Coogan, a university spokesperson. This institution teaches approximately 2000 undergraduate and graduate students; numbers that were previously unimaginable from its initial enrollment of eight students. This upcoming semester, for the second time in the history of Gallaudet, hearing students will be admitted. These students have expressed a good deal of interest and are, of course, fluent in sign language. They are often the children of deaf adults.
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Extractions: Cover Story Spotlight On Schools Featured Columnists Letters ... Travel Select Issue March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002 January 2002 December 2001 November 2001 October 2001 September 2001 August 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April 2001 The Childrens Center School, a division of Queens Centers for Progress, in Jamaica Queens, offers comprehensive educational and clinical services to children with special needs, from birth through twenty-one years of age. Students at the school present with a variety of disabilities, ranging from mild to profound. While many students are multiply-handicapped, the school also services typically developing youngsters who are often participants in inclusionary programs where children with and without disabilities share the same classrooms. (more) Rhodes Scholar Sees The World By M.C. Cohen
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Minority Students In Special And Gifted Education Education, both located in washington, DC The extensive than those for special education,the requiring schools to serve disabled students, disproportionately http://www4.nas.edu/news.nsf/isbn/0309074398?OpenDocument
Kennedy Takes On Special-ed Report The Washington Times specialed report By Amy Fagan THE washington TIMES. ensure that parents of childrenwith special needs have as has a voucher system for disabled students that http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020709-75784347.htm
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Extractions: Public Education Issues Effects of Class Size Education and Technology School Violence and Discipline Special Education Education and Disabled Students Student and School Performance Little Correlation Between Achievement And School Honors Children From Poor Backgrounds Lose Reading Skills in Summer Peer Pressure Affects Academic Performance Taking A Second Look At School Attendance ... Some Bright Spots In U.S. Education
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Extractions: OF TEXAS [Page: E634] IDEA may also force local schools to deny children access to the education that best suits their unique needs in order to fulfill the federal command that disabled children be educated `in the least restrictive setting,' which in practice means mainstreaming. Many children may thrive in a mainstream classroom environment, however, some children may be mainstreamed solely because school officials believe it is required by federal law, even though the mainstream environment is not the most appropriate for that child. On May 10, 1994, Dr. Mary Wagner testified before the Education Committee that disabled children who are not placed in a mainstream classroom graduate from high school at a much higher rate than disabled children who are mainstreamed. Dr. Wagner quite properly accused Congress of sacrificing children to ideology. Increasing IDEA spending also provides incentives to over-identify children as learning disabled, thus unfairly stigmatizing many children and, in a vicious cycle, leading to more demands for increased federal spending on IDEA. Instead of increasing spending on a federal program that may actually damage the children it claims to help, Congress should return control over education to those who best know the child's needs: parents. In order to restore parental control to education, I have introduced the Family Education Freedom Act (H.R. 935), which provides parents with a $3,000 per child tax credit to pay for K-12 education expenses. My tax credit would be of greatest benefit to parents of children with learning disabilities because it would allow them to devote more of their resources to ensure their children get an education that meets the child's unique needs.
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT Thus, the best means of helping disabled children is to an education suited to thatchild's special needs, instead of on the altar of the `washingtonknows-best http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr092500.htm
Extractions: OF TEXAS [Page: H8004] Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to explain why I must oppose H. Con. Res. 399, which celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). My opposition to H. Con. Res. 399 is based on the simple fact that there is a better way to achieve the laudable goal of educating children with disabilities than through an unconstitutional program and thrusts children, parents, and schools into an administrative quagmire. Under the IDEA law celebrated by this resolution, parents and schools often become advisories and important decisions regarding a child's future are made via litigation. I have received complaints from a special education administrator in my district that unscrupulous trial lawyers are manipulating the IDEA process to line their pockets at the expenses of local school districts. Of course, every dollar a local school district has to spend on litigation is a dollar the district cannot spend educating children. IDEA may also force local schools to deny children access to the education that best suits their unique needs in order to fulfill the federal command that disabled children be educated `in the least restrictive setting,' which in practice means mainstreaming. Many children may thrive in a mainstream classroom environment, however, some children may be mainstreamed solely because school officials believe it is required by federal law, even though the mainstream environment is not the most appropriate for that child.
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Extractions: Los Angeles Times , December 26, 2001 For many boys and girls, particularly minorities, special education has become not a road to life but a cul-de-sac where they are stopped before they get the help they need to do as well as they can. Next year, Congress is due for its five-year review of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which governs most "special education" in U.S. schools. Special ed touches the lives of 12% of all U.S. children at a total annual cost nearing $60 billion. The shortcomings and complexities of this troubled program make it ripe for reform. IDEA dates back to 1975, when Washington undertook to ensure that disabled youngsters got a "free, appropriate public education." Until then, many school districts had neglected or refused to educate thousands of children with special needs. Over the past quarter-century, thanks in considerable part to IDEA, much has changed for the better. But IDEA also has plenty of problems. To name a few: over-identification of minority students for special education, double standards for student discipline, red tape for charter schools and interference with state and local education reforms. It exempts millions of children and teachers from academic standards, tests and accountability. IDEA needs a top-to-bottom overhaul.
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Extractions: Site Map April 11, 2000 WASHINGTON The national trend toward greater inclusion of students with disabilities is yielding an encouraging byproduct for both students with special needs and their general ed. peers preparing to leave high school, the U.S. Department of Education says. As part of the increasing opportunities students with special needs have to participate in classes and programs with general ed. students, transition programs are getting more attention from schools and communities. According to the department's Office of Special Education Programs, these transition programs are more frequently being designed with the needs of all students in mind. In its 21st Annual Report to Congress on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, OSEP says the results of three separate studies in the mid- to late 1990s show several positive trends in transition program design. In general, OSEP believes inclusion helps ease the transition process from school to adult life for some students with special needs, Assistant Secretary of Education Judy Heumann said when the report was released. INCLUSION UP SLIGHTLY, STUDENTS RECEIVING SERVICES UP 3%, DEPT. OF EDUCATION SAYS
Computing Services For Physically Disabled Students and seven (19%) provide equipment in special facilities for However, in a survey ofWashington state post addressing the computing needs of disabled students it http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb/discomp.92.html
Extractions: Introduction At one time computer use in higher education was limited to scientific and technical fields of study. The introduction of the microcomputer along with inexpensive, versatile, and easy-to-use applications software has made computer technology increasingly available and useful to students and faculty. Many courses of study now require computer use. Adaptive equipment that allows students with physical disabilities to access computer applications used in post-secondary education is commercially available. This technology has the potential to neutralize handicapping conditions, making it possible for many more people with disabilities to independently and successfully pursue academic studies and careers. Purpose and Goals of the Study A survey was conducted in the state of Washington to determine what computing services are being provided to disabled students on other campuses, what units are involved in selecting, purchasing and managing these services, what locations are used to provide access to computers adapted for disabled students, and what success physically disabled students have experienced in using computers. This study addressed the following questions: What computing services have institutions of higher education provided to physically disabled students? What types of computer adaptive equipment are available? Who is involved in selecting, funding, and managing computing services for disabled students?
Extractions: Telephone: (202) 225-4525 Education Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Benefits of Parental Choice in Special Education Floridas McKay Scholarships Provide Parental Choice for Special Needs Students WASHINGTON, D.C. The Education Reform Subcommittee today heard testimony on several special education-related issues, including innovative programs that enhance parental choice in special education. This is the third in a series of hearings to lay the groundwork for reform and reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which House Republicans hope to pass through Congress this year. Several states have taken the lead in finding innovative approaches to improving special education and giving more options to parents with special needs children. Florida, for example, last year launched a program that provides education choice for parents of disabled students. The McKay Scholarships are available to parents who want to ensure that their special needs children receive a quality education. According to Education Week , Florida education officials received more than 14,000 inquiries from interested parents in the first few months of the McKay programs existence. (Lisa Fine, August 8, 2001)
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Extractions: Resource Books and Videos Special education services are provided for all eligible students. Currently, 900 students are receiving specially designed instruction to meet their unique needs. There is a continuum of service models from consultation services to a full-day program in a self-contained class. Services are determined by a committee, which includes the parent and, if appropriate, the student. Students suspected of having a disability may be referred by the parent, teacher, or other interested party. Written parent permission is required before evaluation. Referral may be made directly to the Director of Special Education or to the Child Study Committee in the school the child attends or will attend. Washington County Public Schools - Working To Provide Virginia's Best Education
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Extractions: Site Index: A B C D ... Z Distance Learning Methods A to Z Home's Cool Correspondence Schools Correspondence schools typically provide a full curriculum based on grade level. You'll get all materials you need, and a teacher will make assignments, which your child will turn in, and the teacher will evaluate. The best are accredited and will perform an assessment to ascertain your child's placement in each subject. Alger Learning Center
