An Alternative IDEA Changes to the disabilities education law mean psychologists might need to wait to see what regulations south carolina or her district might propose. http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/idea.html
Extractions: Print version: page 44 When Congress passed a new version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) last year, it altered many aspects that affect the work of psychologists in elementary and secondary schools. Some psychologists' paperwork could decrease, for example, and others may be allowed to use e-mail to streamline the process of arranging meetings with parents ( see sidebar ). But no doubt the biggest change to affect practitioners is in how they assess children for learning disabilities. Under the revised law, school districts are no longer required to use the IQ-achievement discrepancy model to assess whether a child is learning disabled. As a result, psychologists working in schools that adopt new assessment methods must alter how they assess students, perhaps in ways they aren't familiar with. Psychologists have long debated the current assessment method, which uses the discrepancy between a student's cognitive and achievement test scores to assess learning disabilities. Some feel that model isn't effective, while others feel an imperfect model is better than the new models, which focus instead on student interventions but lack scientific proof that they work. As a result, some psychologists welcome a potential shift away from discrepancy models, while others remain wary.
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Extractions: March 1, 2005 A Palmetto Gold School Media contact: Sharon Goolsby, Public Inf ormation Office: (864) 577-7505 sgoolsby@scsdb.k12.sc.us SEE ATTACHMENT FOR QUOTATIONS FROM LEGISLATORS Lake Wylie, SC Dr. Wallace B. Wally Dalton of Lake Wylie, SC, will receive the Order of the Palmetto, the state of South Carolina s highest civilian honor, during a special ceremony on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. Rep. Ralph W. Norman (R), Dist. 48, will present the award on behalf of Governor Mark Sanford at 6:30 p.m. at River Hills Country Club in Lake Wylie Dalton , whose parents were deaf, has been a leading advocate for individuals with sensory disabilities, serving as a member of the Board of Commissioners for the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB) since 1993. At SCSDB, he and his wife, Shirley, were the sole donors for the Dalton Digital Arts Lab, an assistive technology/computer lab for training disabled high school and adult students for employment in technology jobs. In addition, they made lead gifts for SCSDBs Walker Hall renovation project and the schools Casey-Dalton Pavilion, a fully-equipped outdoor classroom for the School for the Blind. Dr. Dalton views special needs not as disabilities or handicaps, but instead, as unique opportunities to provide support skills for those who have different challenges, said Dr. Sheila Breitweiser, president of SCSDB. In addition to his leadership on behalf of SCSDB, he has shared his considerable talents with community organizations and institutions of higher education.
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Extractions: I was born August 24, 1952 in beautiful and historic Charleston, South Carolina and have lived there most of my life. I must admit that my childhood years were nothing extraordinary. After graduating from St. Andrews Parish High School, I attended The University of South Carolina in Columbia S.C. and received my B.A. in Journalism (Advertising/Public Relations). There, I enjoyed fraternity life as a member of Zeta Beta Tau Over the next several years, I served as manager of Colonial Handbag Company while at the same time, freelanced as a writer, photographer, and event organizer in the Charleston area. I founded The Charlie Post Classic Road Race in 1982, serving as its race director for the first two years. I was also the public relations director for the Cooper River Bridge Run from 1983-1986. In 1986, I established The Charleston Triathlon Club and was elected its first president. Over the past 20 years, I have been involved in a variety of capacities with the Charleston running scene including a five-year stint as coach of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's " Team in Training " program.
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Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. For the past 24 years, Richard Wark has spent several months each year travelling to more than 100 colleges, universities, and job fairs around the country, recruiting teachers for schools in Georgia's DeKalb County. This year he's especially interested in finding math, science, special education (learning disabled/behaviorally disabled), and speech therapy majors. And even though DeKalb, a suburb of Atlanta, is offering beginner teachers $4,000 more than the national average of $23,000, he still finds many positions in critical areas hard to fill. "It's war out there. Everyone's competing for the same individuals," Wark says.
