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
Special Ed Resources Links at the University of virginia. a longterm (free) loan to handicapped/disabledpersons Disabilities Access Knowledge Industries, Leeds, west Yorkshire, UK http://www.nhgs.tec.va.us/SpecialEd/sped_resources.html
Extractions: T/TAC-Eastern Virginia statewide network designed to improve services to students with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. TRI-SPED TRI-SPED: Educational training products for teachers, paraeducators and related services staff in special education. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Math Web by Rick Schauer worksheets and more... Special Education Mailing lists Special Ed. Links at the University of Virginia Ability BBS -VERY GOOD indexed pages on ability and disabilities Online Projects -How you/your students can get involved on the Internet Excellent collection of Children's Software (PC and Mac) Yahoo's Special Eduation Links General Elementary and Middle School Resources (not necessarily geared towards Special Ed.) Internet Resources including Search Engines for keywords Free Software geared towards the disabled at the Virtual Assistive Technology Center Convomania -a website designed for kids who are seriously sick or disabled. Convomania empowers kids with the opportunity to use the Internet to share their feelings and ideas in a cyber-community setting. Provides kids with a place where they can share their thoughts and emotions candidly with other kids who are in similar situations. Internet Resources for Special Children
NEWS, CONFERENCES AND REPORTS On Education & Equity the state, has to pay the cost of sending a disabled student to in Delaware, the Districtof Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, virginia and west virginia. http://www.maec.org/newsarchives/news10082000.html
Extractions: Week of October 8, 2000 NATIONAL Report on Hispanics and Education The President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans recently released Creating the Will: Hispanics Achieving Educational Excellence (requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader ). The report focuses on strategies for closing the achievement gap between Hispanic students and their non-Hispanic peers, whom they lag behind on most traditional indicators of educational achievement. Improving academic achievement among Hispanic students is crucial, the Commission says, because of the sheer size of the population group: one-third of the nation's Hispanics are under 18, and in 25 years, Hispanic children are expected to make up a quarter of the school- age population.
Edens Library -- Special Education Resources JAN Job Accommodation Network (west virginia Univ.) An DPI) The purpose of DisabledPeoples' International (DPI Resource Center for special Education Learning http://www.colacoll.edu/edenslibrary/special.htm
Extractions: Return to the Education Resources page Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education Ref LC 4007 E53 2002 Dictionary of Syndromes and Inherited Disorders Ref RC 69 G55 2000 Encyclopedia of Special Education Ref LC 4007 .E53 1987 (v.1-3) Handbook of Research on Teacher Education Ref LB 1715 .H274 1996 Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning Ref P 51 R66 2000 Special Education Law Ref KF 4210 R68 2000
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.
Allan L Forsythe Ventricosus A publication of the west Indies Laboratory to WETV, Channel 53, NorthernVirginia Educational Television setting for a learning disabled child May http://schoolmatch.com/ppsi/alf.htm
