National Association Of State Boards Of Education 10% of a district's budget, the wisconsin state average accommodation standards forspecial needs students, essentially public education for disabled students http://www.nasbe.org/Membership/Headline_Review/5_31_02.html
Extractions: PLAN TO PLACE MCAS RESULTS ON TRANSCRIPTS WITHDRAWN. In Massachusetts, controversy continues over a proposal to record students' performance on the state graduation exam on high school transcripts. Following stiff opposition to the measure, Education Commissioner David P. Driscoll withdrew the proposal to list students' achievement levels on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Opponents contended that such notations would be particularly unfair to African American and Hispanic students in inner cities, potentially curtailing their opportunities for post-secondary education. Nevertheless, James A. Peyser, Chairman of the State Board of Education, indicated that the board may consider the option of noting a "competency determination" on a student's transcript next fall. The notation would be based on passage of the English and math portions of the MCAS.
Extractions: Prepared by: Colleen Schultz, Communications Specialist, 608- 342-1194, schultco@uwplatt.edu PLATTEVILLE-Special education teachers can now enroll at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville for certification in cross-cultural special education. About 50 teachers are enrolled this semester, according to Rea Kirk, UWP associate professor of education. The new program meets a critical need in southwest Wisconsin, said Kirk. "It means teachers who qualify for the cross-cultural certification can now teach all areas of disability, not just one." The program also saves hundreds of hours and miles for teachers who formerly had to drive to UW-La Crosse or UW-Whitewater to get the necessary training and education, she added. Kirk and adjunct faculty member Julie Phillips spearheaded the effort, getting Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction approval this year. "It's very important for us to have this in southwest Wisconsin," said Phillips. "We have small rural school districts which may have a limited number of students in areas of disabilities."
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.
Post-Crescent - Report: Wisconsin Sees Rising Number Of Special Ed Students Local, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Business headlines, weather, opinion, births and obituaries from the Green Bay PressGazette Online. Featuring national and world news from USA TODAY AP Wire. http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_4053757.shtml
Extractions: The Associated Press Much of the special education growth comes from students defined as learning disabled, a category covering children performing far below grade level contrary to where intelligence tests show they should be. More than 40 percent of all Wisconsin special education students have learning disabilities. School districts and special education advocates say plenty of safeguards exist to prevent mislabeling. A teacher or someone else must make a referral and students must undergo assessments before a child is placed in special education. The National Council on Disability has reported each state is out of compliance with the national special education law, mostly because the states do not make sure local districts are following it. In Wisconsin, the U.S. Department of Education found in 2000 school districts that did not offer psychological counseling, speech pathology services or enough help to special education students in regular classrooms. A federal measure passed in 1975 opened schools to more than a million deaf, blind and otherwise disabled children nationwide. Since then, special education enrollment has increased from nearly 3.7 million to more than 6 million students nationwide.
PRESENTATIONS Assessment Planning for Learning disabled Adults. 2000 Summer Accommodating SpecialNeeds in the Classroom. Staff Development for the wisconsin Rapids Area http://www.uwsp.edu/education/dupham/ProPort/Scholarship/Presentations.htm
Extractions: 2001 - Fall Ten Unique Teacher Qualities Opening Gates to the Future: 43rd Biennial Convocation, Orlando, Florida. (Refereed) 1989 - Fall Innovative Strategies for Teachers and LD Adolescents and Adults. Eleventh International Conference on Learning Disabilities, Denver, Colorado. (Refereed) 1987 - Fall Assessment and Educational/Career Planning for Adults with Learning Disabilities. Presented with Trumbull, V. a nd Gallen, P., at the 9th International Conference on Learning Disabilities, San Diego, California; and at the Third Northeast International Symposium on Exceptional Children and Youth, Bangor, Maine. (Refereed) 1987 - Fall Assessment and Educational/Career Planning for Adults with Learning Disabilities. With Trumbull, V. and Gallen, P., 9th International Conference on Learning Disabilities, San Diego, California. (Refereed) NATIONAL
The Helen Bader Foundation: Jewish Life And Learning: 1999 to include campers with special physical or and educational programming for developmentallydisabled youth (two at Camp Interlaken, near Eagle River, wisconsin. http://www.hbf.org/jewish_life/jewishlist_99.html
Extractions: The Jewish Life and Learning fund continues the Bader family's support of the Milwaukee-area Jewish community through religious, educational and social institutions. Grants Approved Average Grant Size Range of Grants Total 1999 in Brief At a time when even grade schoolers have busy schedules to keep, the fate of Milwaukee's Jewish community is linked to the depth of its children's faith. The community's institutions are strengthening their children's preparation for the future through idea sharing and collaborative efforts. The Helen Bader Foundation seeks to positively impact Milwaukee's Jewish community for the long term. While children are the primary focus of many programs supported through the Jewish Life and Learning program area, the ultimate impact is felt throughout the community, at all ages, through stronger families and an increasing interest in a shared heritage.
ECASD - Departments - C&I - Special Education - Programs And Services wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Speech and assist states in serving disabledchildren in support early intervention and special education research http://www.ecasd.k12.wi.us/departments/special_ed/services/
Extractions: You Are Here: ECASD Home Departments Special Education Programs and Services SPED Home Process Programs Policies ... Teacher Resources Programs and Services What is Special Education? " Special education " means specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability. Special education includes: Instruction conducted within the classroom, in the home, in hospitals and institutions, and in other settings Instruction in physical education Vocational education, if it consists of specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability.
The Heartland Institute Court, by letting stand a wisconsin Supreme Court job with children with specialneeds, partly because classifying children as learningdisabled means more http://www.schoolreformers.com/faqs/choice.html
Resources Page 1 the Waisman Center at the University at wisconsin. and sisters of people with specialhealth and AccessAbility Travel; Travel Info for disabled Travelers; Travel http://www.nasdse.com/resource.html
Extractions: Assistive Technology Resources Links to National Clearinghouses, information providers, resource directories, and documents. Some favorite sites Adaptive Computing Communication Disability ... Therapy/Rehabilitation Some favorite sites Alliance for Technology Access The server is sometimes very busy, but it's worth trying! Contains AT online conferencing: ask a question, others respond, everybody can read it. AT On-Line from the University of Delaware Information about technology (Augmentative Communication and Robotics completed). Calendar of meetings and events. Linklist of AT and disability web sites. NARIC NARIC collects and disseminates the results of federally funded research projects. These materials are indexed in NARIC's bibliographic literature database, REHABDATA. Free access to NARIC Resource Guides. Link to the ABLEDATA project. RESNA Home Page Information about RESNA. Linklist of Tech Act Projects and other AT-related WWW sites. Linklist of AT-related gopher sites. AT Job Listings. Trace Research and Development Center Information about Trace program areas. Access to Trace papers and publications. Information about designing universal/accessible web sites , computers software, telecommunications, consumer products... The cooperative electronic library contains selected documents and resources
Sun Educational Consultants, Crisis Counseling, Intervention BS Behavioral Disabilities University of wisconsin, Madison 1978 Position SpecialEducation Teacher. grades 712 identified as learning disabled and emotionally http://www.sun-ed.com/meg_chun.htm
Recreation - Page 2 Of 2 Paralympics The paralympics are sporting events open to all disabled athletes. SpecialNeeds Toy Catalogue wisconsin First Step has created a listing http://specialchildren.about.com/cs/recreation/index_2.htm
NAPTA: TEACHERS FLEE SCHOOLS Information concerning teacher abuse is provided by NAPTA, The National Association for the Prevention of Teacher Abuse, with the intent to force change. http://www.endteacherabuse.org/flight.html
Extractions: Bridget Andrews spent five years at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, working on a college degree in special education. She spent only one year as a teacher before calling it quits. "I loved the students, and the hardest part about not teaching anymore is I don't get to see those cute little faces every day," said Andrews, 26, now a financial adviser in Fond du Lac. "I miss that part. The parts that were difficult were administration, lack of support." Andrews is emblematic of one problem special education faces. For the last decade, teachers have left the special education profession at almost twice the rate that they have left regular education positions. Read Teacher Stories: Mix, Andrekus, Van Zuidam, Settlegoode for more understanding of why Special Education teachers are even more dissatisfied - or more abused. In the mid-1990s, the situation was so bad that two years saw more than 14% of the state's special education teaching population leave each year. At that rate, nearly half the state's special education staff could turn over every three years. Compounding the problem is the number of teachers who leave special education to become general educators, about twice as many as those who do the reverse. In fact, so many teachers leave special education or choose not to enter the field in the first place, about half of the emergency licenses the state issues every year to people who don't meet all the requirements for full licensure are for the special education field alone.
