Special Education Support Groups Families Helping Families of louisiana Families Helping Families of Federation for Children with special needs - A center for parents and parent http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/special_ed/support/
Extractions: Curriculum Lesson Plans Organizers Rubrics ... Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center - The CT Parent Advocacy Center, Inc. (CPAC) is a statewide nonprofit organization that offers information and support to families of children with any disability or chronic illness, age birth through 21. Disability Information for Students - International disability news, jobs, discussion, resources. A site designed for students and professionals supporting individuals with disabilities. Education A Must Inc. Educational Advocates - Educational advocates for education for the special needs child located in New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts. Educational Needs Alliances - (Albany, Oregon) Families Helping Families of Louisiana - Families Helping Families of Louisiana centers are a group of families who, through our own experiences, are committed to reaching out to other families who have members with special needs and self-advocates. Family Village - Information about ways of dealing with disabilities and everyday life.
A Bad IDEA Seven years ago, my younger son was classified as learning disabled. Also,school officials can often exclude special-needs students from high-stakes http://www.connsensebulletin.com/badidea.html
Extractions: 'Perverse Incentives' in an Unfunded Mandate Just as before the 1997 Reauthorization of IDEA, a concerted attack is beginning on it. Note this commentary's recommendation that the " ' specific learning disabilities' category should be exised from the law" and the statement that "Evidence suggests that the IDEA does not produce academic gains." Education Week 'Perverse Incentives' in an Unfunded Mandate By Clint Bolick Education Week The IDEA has become systematically dysfunctional and damaging to public schools. A powerful toxin infects our nation's education system, imperiling the ability of every public school to fulfill its mission. It is not school vouchers or inadequate funding, but the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA. Tracing back to the 1975 legislation enacted to ensure equal educational opportunities for children with disabilities, the IDEA now covers 6.1 million schoolchildren at a cost of $41.5 billion annually, accounting for 40 percent of all new education funding over the past 30 years. Because only 12.5 percent of the money is provided by the federal government, the idea constitutes the largest unfunded federal mandate in American education. Far worse, it creates perverse incentives that have deepened stratification within public education to the detriment of minorities and the poor.
LA ALLEN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, Oberlin, Allen Parish, louisiana to the sparselypopulated rural community, could be brought to children with special needs. http://www.usda.gov/rus/dlt/la.htm
Extractions: Congressional District: 4 th The Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC) proposes to enhance its health care telecommunication network by utilizing two-way Interactive Compressed Video labs already established in LSUHSC. The proposal will add three (3) satellite locations in the cities of Leesville, Many, and Natchitoches. These end-user sites will have fully equipped two-way Interact Compressed Video labs comparable to those at LSUHSC. The project will utilize an electronic communication network for the transmission of data on health promotion, disease prevention and diagnosis. The project will serve over 27,000 residents and will provide instant access of patients to doctors, aid in the transfer of patient information, diagnostic consultations and provide continuing education to medical professionals. MACON RIDGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGION INCORPORATED, Ferriday, Louisiana
LATAN louisiana Speech Language and Hearing Association Homepage of louisiana s that enhances the quality and enjoyment of family life with special needs. http://www.latan.org/links/resources.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! If you cannot find an appropriate camp on this page I also have some links to other potentially useful pages as well as some other websites that list camps. I list all of the camps I know of, so please do not email me asking for help locating a camp. Thanks. Connecticut
The Math Forum - Math Library - Disabled/Challenged This page contains sites relating to disabled/Challenged. Publishers ofeducational software, focusing on special needs software for Windows and http://mathforum.org/library/ed_topics/contexts_disabled/
Extractions: Equal access to software and information: an NSF-sponsored project to collect and disseminate information on tools that make these fields more accessible to professionals with disabilities. Online workshops, Webcasts, links to programs for the visually impaired, those with learning disabilities, the hard-of-hearing, social barriers to SEM access, resources for tactile graphics/three-dimensional models, etc. more>> Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) An affiliate of the Association for the Advancement of Higher Education dedicated to disseminating up-to-date information about providing equal access to computing and information technology for persons with disabilities. E-mail Workshops, on-site seminars on Adaptive Computing, and assistance in making information technology accessible with the use of state-of-the-art adaptive computing technology are available for universities, colleges, schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations. more>> Family Village School - Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Special Needs Info & Views (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) special needs Info. So what if they are qualified as special Edthey can (See Disparately disabled. ) Onefifth of special education students spend http://susanohanian.org/show_special_info.html?id=13
Extractions: an affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. It is dedicated to disseminating up-to-date information about access to computing and information technology for persons with all kinds of disabilities. There's a lot of information for people with print disabilities. IBM's Special Needs Web Page Microsoft's Accessibility Page National Association for Visually Handicapped
Extractions: In 1973, Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Included in the Act is Section 504, a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of physical or mental disability. Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is regarded as the first national level civil rights legislation for people with disabilities. It states: No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance... The Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education enforces regulations implementing Section 504 with respect to programs and activities that receive funding from the Department. Section 504 regulation applies to all recipients of this funding, including colleges, universities, and postsecondary vocational education programs. Failure by these higher education schools to provide auxiliary aids to students with disabilities that result in a denial of a program benefit in discriminatory and prohibited by Section 504.
Assistive And Adaptive Technology SNOW s sister site for special needs children and their teachers and parents . Computer Assistive Technology for People Who Are disabled. http://disability-resource.com/assist.html
Extractions: French German Italian Portuguese ... FreeTranslation.com Point-N-Click Click-N-Type AutoClick feature, you know that there are many people who have the manual dexterity to move a mouse, trackball or other pointing device, but do not have the fine motor skills to actually click a mouse button. To address this need AutoClick was introduced to give such individuals the ability to type on the Click-N-Type keyboard. The problem is that a virtual keyboard is limited to typing. Someone else has to set things up for you because Windows requires mouse clicking.
Extractions: December 1, 2004 JOY and Jay Zainey, back row, are thrilled that a new Mass for families with disabled children will allow 16-year-old son Andrew, front row center, to worship together with sister Margaret and brother Christopher. By PETER FINNEY Jr. Most parents never will face the sideways glances, the quizzical expressions and the imposing institutional obstacles that Joy and Jay Zainey have experienced while trying to worship together with their three children on a Sunday morning. The Zaineys' youngest child Andrew, 16, suffers from severe autism and a rare chromosomal abnormality that make it virtually impossible for him to attend Mass because his behavior can become disruptive to others in the congregation. The Zaineys and other parents with severely disabled children understand that frequently it is not possible to take their children to Mass at the parish church. But buoyed by the outreach of a caring priest, Vincentian Father Mark Ford of St. Joseph Church on Tulane Avenue, parents of these special kids are living out in a dynamic way the Catholic motto of "here comes everybody." ON THE first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., families with disabled children gather at St. Joseph for a Mass that is a spiritual and emotional experience of prayer and healing.
Bill Seeks Testing Help For Learning-disabled Students But adults can get frustrated when disabled students still can t reach grade The state currently tests special needs students with the LEAP Alternate http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050607/NEWS01/506070
Baton Rouge Parents Magazine Has a Family Advocate, a parent of a child with special needs, Transitionalservice for the learning disabled from school into the workplace and http://www.brparents.com/july052.asp
Baton Rouge Parents Magazine Finding the right school for a specialneeds student requires the parent to applythe The louisiana School for the Deaf (LSD) 2888 Brightside Drive http://www.brparents.com/july051.asp
LD OnLine - Headlines On Learning Disabilities Sometimes, the parents of special needs children can feel overwhelmed and School is enough to make one of her learning disabled fifthgrade students http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?max=20&skip=&special_grouping=&id=0&loc=92&s
LD OnLine - Headlines On Learning Disabilities 10 A School s special needs by The Star-Ledger (New Jersey) - Ref 1388 - Posting 20 - Bill Seeks Testing Help for Learning-disabled Students by The http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?max=20&special_grouping=&start=101&end=120&i
VITA louisiana Department of Education, Office of special Education Services. Grant to develop a systems change model to address transition needs for http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/scarr/VITA.html
Extractions: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fall, 2000-present Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. 2000-present Coordinator, Teacher Scholars Program 1996-2000 Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. 1997-2000 Coordinator, Teacher Scholars Program
Advisory Committee and conducted numerous conferences for Indian families with special needs . Guy Leefe is an attorney in private practice in New Orleans, louisiana. http://www.familysupport-hsri.org/about/advisory.html
Extractions: Lauren Bridge is the Oregon Project Coordinator for the Measuring Outcomes Project, a Maternal and Child Health Bureau grant at Providence Child Center in Portland Oregon. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the usefulness of an instrument for assessing functional development in children with special health care needs and evaluate their experience of care within a managed care system. Her professional interest is to continue educating and informing communities and the political process of the issues important to people with disabilities. Her professional activities include being the Oregon Chapter Coordinator of Family Voices, a member of the Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Advisory Council and the County Self-Directed Support Commission, among other activities. Lauren co-authored a guide entitled, "Passport: A Managed Care Guide for Children with Special Health Care Needs." Sunny is the proud parent of a child with a developmental disability. Her child was the first in her district to be fully included in a "regular elementary school", while receiving related services in her home school district. Because of the success of her daughter's inclusion, the district now promotes full inclusion as an option to any disabled child. Sunny is a successful businesswoman, mother of four daughters and a happily married wife, managing two companies and a nonprofit organization called Asian Advocates for Special People (AASP). She founded this organization in Los Angeles, California in 1994 due to difficulties of dealing with daily tasks of her daughter's school, medical services and family support issues, which arose from not knowing how to cope with her daughter's disability. "I had no where to go to obtain resources or support from my relatives, or the Korean community, because disabled people are shunned upon as a virus or disease to be avoided."
