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Extractions: By Zaher Karp College is the anticipated fork in the road for many students, but for those with special needs, this shift is far more uncertain. For students who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), dyslexia, or another learning disability, what are their postsecondary education options? Several programs and schools have been established to cater specifically to students with disabilities, including Gallaudet University, Landmark College, and the SALT program at the University of Arizona. Founded in 1864 by an act of Congress, Gallaudet University (www.gallaudet.edu) in Washington D.C. has been dedicated to the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The bill was signed by Abraham Lincoln, and Gallaudet College was born. It remained Gallaudet College until 1986, where another act of Congress approved university status. Gallaudet University remains the only liberal arts University for the deaf in the entire world, said Mercy Coogan, a university spokesperson. This institution teaches approximately 2000 undergraduate and graduate students; numbers that were previously unimaginable from its initial enrollment of eight students. This upcoming semester, for the second time in the history of Gallaudet, hearing students will be admitted. These students have expressed a good deal of interest and are, of course, fluent in sign language. They are often the children of deaf adults.
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Extractions: As a special educator, I have had the opportunity to meet many unique individuals with more similarities than differences. However, most of the students I have worked with have been diagnosed with a variety of "disabilities." I say most of the students, because I have made a strong attempt over the years to help bridge the gap between special education and regular education. I have done so in a variety of ways and for several reasons.
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Extractions: December 28, 1997 In This Article The Two Sides: Inclusion vs. Exclusion The Problems: Balances, Social and Financial A Town's Reaction: Fears and Strains Are Confronted The Hopes: 'Breaking Down Some of the Lines' By TAMAR LEWIN OODSTOCK, Vt. One classmate had to speak his lines for him and another had to push his wheelchair into place on stage. But it was still an achievement when Jeron Fox appeared as the ghost this fall in the four performances of "Hamlet" at the high school. ALL IN ONE A special report. Jeron, a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, has a luminous smile, a quick sense of humor and no control over the drool dribbling down his chin as he and an instructional aide prepare for a world history test on Alexander the Great. Jeron cannot talk or read well. He communicates mostly by pointing to a book of drawings that show the important people, classes, foods and feelings in his life. For formal pronouncements, the laptop computer in his wheelchair tray can use voices. Nationally, most students like Jeron are educated in separate classrooms or separate schools, as are those with mental retardation, autism or emotional disturbances, and many of those in the far larger group of children with less pervasive problems like dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities.
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Extractions: Offers guidance on construction of a new building, addition, or renovation of a magnet or charter school. Twelve exemplary projects are described, followed by guidance on funding, finding a home for the charter school, designing for autistic students, specialized school design, technology, site design and landscape architecture for urban schools, acoustics, indoor air quality, sustainable design, and design-build project delivery. A draft charter school operations plan and 36 references are included. 228p.
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Extractions: Provides specifications for various building elements and spaces, including entrances, ramps, parking, restrooms, and telephones, etc. This edition represents the culmination of a decade-long review and update of the Board's Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG), which were first published in 1991. Revisions have been made so that the guidelines continue to meet the needs of people with disabilities and keep pace with technological innovations. As part of this update, the Board made the Guidelines more consistent with building codes and industry standards. It coordinated extensively with model code groups and standard-setting bodies throughout the process to reconcile differences. These guidelines serve as the baseline for standards used to enforce the ADA and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA). 310p.
Extractions: Students' Work Including special-needs students in regular classrooms seems to improve student academic performance, data show by Peter Farley AMHERST The inclusive-style classroom may be denying elementary school special needs students the attention they require and the education they deserve, according to some local teachers. But an analysis of available data gives a different picture. Now only one question remains: which method of grouping is most effective in helping students, with and without disabilities, to achieve their expected goals? IDEA requires that disabled students be placed in a setting that constitutes the "least restrictive environment." In other words, the government calls for disabled students to be educated with those who are nondisabled, to the maximum extent appropriate. However, teachers such as Mary Donovan, a fourth-grade instructor at Crocker Farm Elementary School in Amherst, say the law is often misinterpreted. The "least restrictive environment" isn’t always the regular classroom for special needs students, Donovan said.
Extractions: IMPACT - Whittier Christian SchoolI.M.P.A.C.T. = Increasing Might, Power, Academics, Choices, and Truth. This is an opportunity program for students with specialized needs within the Whittier Christian School System, involving the two elementary schools and the junior high school. The program is directed by a dynamic and caring specialist, Mrs. Joyce L. Inouye, M.A.Ed. Opportunity Program - Grace Christian School Provides a learning environment that enables children to overcome learning differences, to spark and develop their ability to succeed at school, to build their skills, confidence, and character so as to empower them to manage life and reach their highest personal potential. This program is directed by an experienced and concerned educator, Mrs. Anita M. Burch, M.A.Ed.
Extractions: Senate Passes IDEA Reauthorization Bill: Conference Committee to Review The United States Senate passed its Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) bill by a vote of 95 to 3 on May 13, 2004. Numerous amendments were considered over the 2-day debate, with Senator Kennedy reading excerpts of several parent letters during his time addressing the assembly. Both Senators from Ohio voted in favor of the bill. According to a report issued by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the following amendments are of particular concern to parent groups and were addressed during the debate. Children in Transition: Senator Murray included an amendment to streamline services to highly mobile children, including military, foster, and homeless children. Mandatory Full Funding: Eight Senators passionately supported an amendment to require the US government to fully fund the mandates of IDEA under the 40% cost level established in the original Act. Citing rising costs of education, increased identification of students with special needs, and overtaxed state budgets, these Senators sought increases of $2.2 billion each year for 6 years in order to reach the 1976 promise of 40% funding. The amendment failed. Instead, appropriations will be requested to increase discretionary federal funding. The Senate has set a new goal, of 2011, to fully fund IDEA.
