Allan L Forsythe A Comparative Study of washington, DC area the apropriate setting for a learningdisabled child May A comparative analysis of special needs services in Danish http://schoolmatch.com/ppsi/alf.htm
Extractions: Home Knowledge Center Nutrition Resources Member Log In Search Find a Dietitian (Enter ZIP) The House Executive Committee has delayed the expiration date for this position to December 31, 2000. The term "children with special health needs" (CSHN) describes those children who have congenital or acquired conditions that affect physical and/or cognitive growth and development and who require more than the usual pediatric health care. The term refers to children who have developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, or health-related problems as well as those who are at risk for these conditions (1). CSHN must have the opportunity to achieve their potential in all areas of development. Appropriate nutrition services are a critical aspect of the support required for this to occur. CSHN are vulnerable to all of the factors that place other children at nutritional risk, and to a myriad of additional biological, environmental, and psychosocial variables that may further jeopardize their nutritional status and pose barriers to their development. In highlighting the population of CSHN, The American Dietetic Association (ADA) reaffirms its position that all children should have access to adequate nutrition services (2). It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that nutrition services are an essential component of comprehensive care for children with special health needs. These nutrition services should be provided within a system of coordinated interdisciplinary services in a manner that is preventive, family centered, community based, and culturally competent.
The Council For Disability Rights Several programs serve special health needs of Centers for Independent Living; DisabledIndividual's Assistance Children (DSCC) 2815 W. washington, Suite 300 http://www.disabilityrights.org/guide3.htm
Extractions: A Parent's Guide to Special Ed / Special Needs Part II - Resources Friends of Special Education does not endorse any of the groups or agencies listed, nor do we make any representations as to how effective or ineffective they are in providing services. The following list of resources includes federal, state and local agencies mandated to provide services to children with special needs; legal assistance agencies and programs that specialize in special education and/or human rights/discrimination/disability issues; and advocacy and support groups. Some listings and descriptions of services provided were obtained from the Directory of Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups (8th Ed.), 1996-97 edition of the Human Care of Metropolitan Chicago Services Directory, Directory of State Services for People with Disabilities, and a resource list compiled by the Family Resource Center on Disabilities. For some listings, there may be several addresses and phone numbers if the agency or group has several offices throughout the state. Other listings that may have more than one office may only list one address and phone number for intake and referral to the office closest to you. Access Living . 614 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago 60607
Extractions: PSRPs play vital role in providing services to the students who need them the most At A ndrew J ohnson E lementary S chool in Oklahoma City, the principal sometimes takes applicants for jobs as special education paraprofessionals on a school tour. They usually stop in Terry Goforth's room, where the veteran paraprofessional works with disabled preschool kids. That's often the last time Goforth sees the job applicants. "Once they get a view of what's involved with the job and the pay," they decide they can't handle it, says Goforth, a member of the Oklahoma City Federation of Classified Employees. Of the six children in her roomstaffed by a teacher and two education assistantsonly one can walk on her own. The job applicants "are just not prepared for special education," Goforth says, adding that starting pay for some positions works out to less than $9,000 a year. Wilma Rose, a Colorado paraprofessional working as an occupational and physical therapist, knows exactly what Goforth is talking about. "It's hard to find someone who will stay with it because of the needs that are required," says Rose, a member of the Colorado Classified School Employees Association who works in Brighton, Colo. Some of the duties are "not fun," as she delicately puts it.
Special Ed 15 years as administrator in Oregon and washington. centerbased component in EarlyChildhood special Education, and Maximum access to non-disabled peers is a http://www.medford.k12.or.us/programs/special.htm
Extractions: The Medford School District has developed a broad continuum of services tailored to the individual characteristics of our disabled student population. Our program is noted for its open and honest communication with parents of disabled children, to enlist them as genuine partners in the special education process. This necessitates a focus on the individual educational needs of the students, and not simply a process of channeling students into existing classrooms. and The Medford School District currently has an enrollment of some 12,400 students. Of this, about 1,350 (just short of 11%) are qualified as disabled. This includes the whole range of student disabilities from communication disorders through severe, multiple handicaps. Ten Site-Based classrooms are distributed across the District to provide a self-contained classroom experience for those students who require it. Two of these classrooms are Transition Kindergarten classrooms that give an assist to moderately disabled students for two years as they enter the school system. Two elementary Site-Based classrooms are dedicated to work primarily with serious behavioral issues. There are two Site-Based classrooms and a Behavior Disability classroom at the middle school level, and a Modified Diploma program at the high school level. The Modified Diploma program concentrates not only on the academic skills that lead to a diploma, but on vocational and independent living skills that address crucial needs for these students and their families.
Extractions: "The teachers are telling me he's lazy and won't try hard enough. They say we have spoiled him in America." "There was no way he could exist in any school in Burma so I had to home-school him." 'My hyperactive twins were kicked out of play group in Tanzania at age three for being 'too immature.'" 'My husband couldn't leave his station in Africa so I alone had to take my two children under three years of age to London for a week of testing." - comments of American parents who have lived abroad with learning-disabled children For parents of children with severe learning disabilities, dyslexia, problems with their own language and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), moving abroad causes great difficulties but can, at times, also bring unexpected gifts. Families have to assess what their child's strengths are as well as areas of weakness - usually well ahead of when they would need to acquire that knowledge in the States. Frequently they unite behind this child and find ways for him or her to succeed in some activities, be it in the arts, physical activities or in some area of the new culture. Diversity can be an attribute, not just a nuisance. Still, the tribulations of parents overseas should not be underestimated.
NEA: Bob Chase's Column 4/14/02 a Commission on Excellence in special Education, and are now educating millions ofdisabled children, and Association 1201 16th Street, NW washington, DC 20036 http://www.nea.org/columns/bc020414.html
Extractions: President, NEA F or public school employees and their unions, the education of children with disabilities has long been a matter of principle. We strongly supported the historic 1975 federal law that directed public schools to provide a free, appropriate education to any child with special needs. And we did so with that happy sense of purpose people get when standing up for a principle. But like the parents of disabled children, public educators have learned a hard lesson in the years since then: it requires more than a big heart to implement a big-hearted law. It requires incredible vigilance, a jeweler's attention to details, and the persistence of a badger. The kids aren't the problem. Every person I've ever known who has taught disabled children has been energized by them. No, it's the adult stuff that will wear you down: mountains of paperwork, oversized classes, exhausting workloads-and above all else, the failure of Congress to fulfill its more than 20-year-old promise to fund 40 percent of the cost of educating children with special needs. Currently, the federal government covers only about 17 percent of the total cost of special education-creating a funding shortfall this year for local public schools of $10.5 billion.
People For The American Way needed support for many learning disabled students. 11 such students by excludingspecial education services M Street, NW, Suite 400 washington, DC 20036 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1482
YCOE Departments - Main Page or severely handicapped/developmentally disabled; and 124 and services to specialneeds students in Joint Unified, Esparto Unified, washington Unified, Winters http://www.yolo.k12.ca.us/depts/
Extractions: YCOE DEPARTMENTS Superintendent's Office - Click for more information. The County Superintendent administers all County Office of Education programs. The County Office's mission is to meet current and future needs of Yolo County by no description Administrative Services Division - Click for more information.
One Mold Charters Can't Break Public Charter High School in washington, DC, as 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.
DCPL: MLK: Library For The Blind & Physically Handicapped Provides the full range of library and information services to all persons with disabilities living Category Regional North America Health Disability Resources materials which will meet their needs in a blind, visually impaired or learning disableddue to career and educational resources (washington Lifelong Learning http://www.dclibrary.org/lbph/
Extractions: Telephone Our mission: To provide the full range of library and information services to all persons with disabilities living in the District of Columbia in cooperation with the Library of Congress, hospitals, institutions, homes for the aged, schools, and other appropriate agencies. Residents with disabilities should be able to conveniently identify and obtain for their use library materials which will meet their needs in a format which they can use. This would include independent access to catalogs and databases and the support system necessary to obtain materials bibliographical and full text, in accessible format. Top of Page Home Catalog ... M.L. King Library
Washingtonpost.com: The Supreme Court By Joan Biskupic washington Post Staff Writer Thursday of medical care for disabledchildren attending services, said Ray Bryant, special education director of http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/court030
Extractions: Thursday, March 4, 1999; Page A1 The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that public schools must provide a wide array of medical care for disabled children attending classes, over protests that the decision would seriously strain the resources of many school districts. With more and more young accident victims and chronically ill children able to attend school with the help of respirators, feeding tubes and other technological advances, school officials across the country increasingly are being called upon to furnish medical services with the regular curriculum. About 6 million students nationwide have disabilities, including tens of thousands who require "significant assistance," according to federal figures. Yesterday's decision could dramatically ratchet up local school boards' costs for meeting those medical needs. "No one argues that these children need services," said Ray Bryant, special education director of Montgomery County. "But extending services to education like maintaining ventilators and . . . skilled nursing really seems to go beyond what education does." By a 7 to 2 vote, the court expansively interpreted a federal law intended to improve educational prospects for the disabled and ruled that a school district in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, must provide all-day nursing care to a quadriplegic boy.
MY TEACHERS PAGE resources on topics of importance to special educators Discipline Communication LearningDisabled. Teaching Portfolio How washington State University makes use http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/teacher.html
Extractions: Just For Kids ... Themes During the year, I will be adding resources for teachers to this site. These resources will be teaching tools and topics that will cover many facets of education. If you have additional sites that you have found to be useful or any topics that you would like me to research and display the results here, please use the handy e-mail link to send them to me. I would also appreciate you letting me know if any of the listed links are no longer active in order for me to keep these pages as up-to-date as possible. Special Education General Special Education Sites Attention Deficit Disorder Behaviour Exceptionalities Communication Learning Disabled ... Holidays Page Special Education - BC - On-line Documents
Yankee Institute Matthews, education reporter for the washington Post, agrees school wanting to enrollspecial education students and not cherry pick among the disabled. http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/papers/voucher.php
Extractions: The Need for New Options For Children With Disabilities In 2001, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and the Progressive Policy Institute teamed to release a collection of studies titled Rethinking Special Education for a New Century The number of students in special education nationwide has grown 65 percent since the inception of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), to about 6.1 million in the 1999-2000 school year, or 8.2 percent of the overall student body. The largest growth has been in the percentage of children classified as learning disabled which was 21 percent when the law was passed and 46 percent in 1998. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that 38 percent of each new tax dollar raised for public schools has been spent on special education.
Vouchers: Myth Vs. Fact and speech therapy, and those costs associated with educating disabled and specialneeds children of Church and State 518 C Street, NE washington, DC 20002 http://www.au.org/vouch-bk.htm
Extractions: Myth vs. Fact MYTH: All voucher programs are constitutional. FACT: Sectarian schools account for 85 percent of the total private school enrollment in the United States. These schools serve as arms of religious ministries and integrate religious values and doctrine throughout their curriculum, indoctrinating students on controversial subjects such as abortion, creationism and the role of women in society. Despite these facts, however, the Supreme Court, in June 2002, upheld a voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio. The decision was extremely narrow. It is limited to circumstances in which the non-religious options that are available to students such as through charter and magnet schools predominate over religious options. The Court refused to overrule pre-existing decisions striking down voucher systems where private schools are the only options available to students apart from regular public schools.
Extractions: Lead Poisoning Positive Behavior Support Community Schools Where to find help for a child in Michigan - click here Where to find help for a child in the United States - click here Breaking News What's New? Help ... Text Menu Last Updated: Medicaid, Medicare, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Family Support Subsidy (FSS) Locate your local Social Security Office - click here U.S. Beltway Briefs SSA To Update Rules For Evaluating Mental Retardation and OSEP Indicates Respite Services Not Required Under IDEA Part C Social Security for Parents: Benefits for Disabled Children A child who is disabled may depend on your help for the rest of their lives. Social Security has two programs that pay disability benefits to disabled children: Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). MI - At recent System Update meetings several Coordinators had asked for further information about the changes to MSS/ISS program. The revised policy relating to MSS/ISS has been posted at the Michigan Department of Community Health website as of today. If you would like to read/print it for yourself, see below. Go to
