Special Needs Childrens - Port Angeles School District What special needs are provided for in the Port Angeles School District? Behaviorally disabled; Communication Disorders; Gross Motor and Orthopedically http://www.portangelesschools.org/students/special-needs-children.html
Extractions: Students Schools Administration Directory ... Advanced Search Special Services programs are a supplement to, not a replacement for, the regular school program. A child between the ages of 5 and 21 is considered common school age, as defined by Washington State law. The Port Angeles School District does provide Special Services to students with disabilities between the ages of birth to age 21. Upon the analysis of assessment information, a child is found to have a cognitive, academic, physical, or adjustment disability which makes it impossible to achieve up to his/her capacity in the regular classroom, he/she may be eligible to receive Special Services program assistance when specially designed instruction is required. Degrees of disabilities which meet eligibility criteria are defined in the Rules and Regulations as set forth in the Washington Administrative Code (WAC), Chapter 392-172. The Port Angeles Special Services provides appropriate programs, services, or referral services for the following individual disabilities:
LD OnLine - Schooling The Learning-Disabled Child Abroad must attempt to satisfy the special needs of this child while not losing track of 2 No Easy Answers The Learning disabled Child at Home and at School http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?max=20&special_grouping=&id=831&loc=15
LD OnLine - Disabled By Paperwork? The paperwork, they say, has even driven special education teachers out of the In addition, she said, schools need improved technology, and training for http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?max=20&special_grouping=&id=65&loc=49
Extractions: S ERVICES IN S CHOOL FOR C HILDREN W ITH S PECIAL N EEDS: W HAT P ARENTS N EED TO K NOW No. 83 Some children experience difficulties in school, ranging from problems with concentration, learning, language, and perception to problems with behavior and/or making and keeping friends. These difficulties may be due to one or more of the following: physical disorders, psychiatric disorders, emotional problems, behavioral problems, and learning disorders (or disabilities). These children with special needs are usually entitled to receive special services or accommodations through the public schools. Federal law mandates that every child will receive a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. It also entitles children with special needs to receive extra services. To support their ability to learn in school, three Federal laws apply to children with special needs: Between states, there are different criteria for eligibility, services available, procedures for implementing the Federal laws, and procedural safeguards. It is important for parents to be aware of these laws and regulations in their particular area.
MY TEACHERS PAGE This site is from the special needs Education (SNE) project, an Internet service providing resources for parents, teachers, schools, and other professionals http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/teacher.html
Extractions: Just For Kids ... Themes During the year, I will be adding resources for teachers to this site. These resources will be teaching tools and topics that will cover many facets of education. If you have additional sites that you have found to be useful or any topics that you would like me to research and display the results here, please use the handy e-mail link to send them to me. I would also appreciate you letting me know if any of the listed links are no longer active in order for me to keep these pages as up-to-date as possible. Special Education General Special Education Sites Attention Deficit Disorder Behaviour Exceptionalities Communication Learning Disabled ... Holidays Page Special Education - BC - On-line Documents
Disabled Sports USA 52% of those responding were DISSATISFIED with their schools Physical Education are equally important for children and adults with special needs. http://www.dsusa.org/ChallMagarchive/challmag-fall03-physEd.html
Extractions: Challenge Magazine Fall 2003 "Adaptive Snowboarding Takes Off Sharing the Joy of Sliding" By Bryan E. Hoddle, Head Coach, US ParalympicsTrack and Field Program motor abilities due to the lack of Physical Education/Fitness emphasis in this country. E-mail response in support of the article was overwhelming. Little did I know that 10 months later, I would be asked to chair a national task force to lobby law makers to do something about Physical Education nationwide. My first objective was to ask teachers and coaches in Washington what was going on at their school in regard to Physical Education. As part of that information gathering, Doug Fulton of South Whidbey H.S. polled coaches and teachers in a five question survey on the Washington High School Track and Field web site (www.watfxc.com). Nearly 100 surveys were returned in just one month, and the responses were fairly consistent. Here is what our task force learned from that survey:
Parents Of Disabled/Ill Children Opportunity for schoolage brothers and sisters of children with special health and developmental needs to obtain peer support and education within a http://my.webmd.com/hw/raising_a_family/shc44.asp
Extractions: On behalf of children, MELD programs aim to enhance the capacity of those who parent to raise nurtured, competent children. Provides supportive, peer based learning environments and knowledge about parenting at critical stages of child development. Programs serve families who can benefit from strong support and parenting knowledge and strategies, including adolescent parents, low income families, culturally diverse families, or families who have children with disabilities or chronic illnesses. Also provides staff development training and comprehensive parent education materials.
NICHCY: Parenting A Child With Special Needs - Resources I wish Dreams and realities of parenting a special needs child. Lab School of washington. (1991). Issues of parenting children with learning http://www.kidsource.com/NICHCY/parenting.disab.all.4.6.html
Extractions: The publications and organizations listed below, as well as the resources listed throughout this News Digest, are only a few of the many that can provide information to parents and families about issues related to disability. Additional support is also available from state and local parent groups, as well as from state and local affiliates of many major disability organizations. To help you obtain documents listed in this issue, you will find the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of publishers at the end of this publication. The publisher's name generally appears in the final position in the citation to illustrate, in the example citation below, the publisher is Woodbine House. Example: Sweeney, W. (in press). The special-needs reading list: An annotated guide to the best publications for parents and professionals. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House.
Extractions: The PATHWAYS DEVELOPMENT GROUP in Seattle, USA have designed some amazing switches and interfaces which allow disabled children to play Nintendo consoles - you can see photos here of their interfaces for ALL THREE main Nintendo consoles: for use with NES for use with Super NES for use with NINTENDO 64 Pathways Development Group in Seattle have now received CE Mark certification for their interface for the Nintendo® N64 console. This means that this wonderful invention which allows disabled kids to play the N64 on an equal footing with their able-bodied friends, can now be sold in the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as other areas of the world. UK distributors for the N64 interface are TFH Ltd, in Worcestershire - tel. +44 (0)1299 827820 or e-mail , and if you're in the US or Canada, contact Mike Andrews at PDG (toll free) on 1-877-742-4604 or locally 1-425-742-4674, fax 1-425-745-9279, e-mail See the Surplus Resources page for details of free videos showing these interfaces and switches in action, and for further background information, see Mike Andrews' report in our
WorkSource - Special Needs Populations WorkSource,Central washington. Whether through counseling, helping to provide required equipment for special needs or career guidance, we can help you http://www.cw1stop.org/special.htm
Extractions: Kittitas Yakima Toppenish Sunnyside ... Community Transition Dislocated Workers When the business you work for suddenly goes out of business, or your employer down-sizes and lays you off, you might be eligible to receive assistance from WorkSource. We can try to find you another job in a similar field, or maybe we can help get training for you toward a new career. We can help you in similar ways if you have recently been divorced, and you were dependent on your spouse for your support. Let us help you get trained and into a job where you can become self-sufficient. Contact your local WorkSource Center to answer your questions about the Dislocated Worker Program, and how we might be able to help you! Learn more about Dislocated Worker services, and whether you are eligible at go2worksource.com Top of Page Disabled Workers If you qualify, WorkSource has Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors who are trained to help you find the perfect employment opportunities. Whether through counseling, helping to provide required equipment for special needs or career guidance, we can help you find and maintain job satisfaction. You may find these resources useful...
School Choice For Special Ed states be allowed to adopt school choice programs for disabled students coupled Under that program, if parents of a special needs child with an http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-16-02.html
Extractions: Archives Hurricane Katrina Archives July 16, 2002 by Marie Gryphon and David Salisbury Marie Gryphon is a policy analyst and David Salisbury is director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom . They co-wrote, " Escaping IDEA: Freeing Parents, Teachers and Students Through Deregulation and Choice ," released on July 10. Last week, the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education released recommendations for the nation's troubled special education system. Proposing that states be allowed to adopt school choice programs for disabled students coupled with extensive continued regulation of both public and private schools the commission got it half right. A Cato Institute policy analysis released right after the commission's report shows that real reform requires massive regulatory relief in addition to parental choice.
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.
More Choices For Disabled Kids - Policy Review, No. 112 More Choices For disabled Kids Policy Review, No. 112. And if the special-needs child leaves the school for any reason, the supplemental funding http://www.policyreview.org/apr02/andrews_print.html
Extractions: (Original Version) More Choices For Disabled Kids By Lewis M. Andrews f the opponents of school choice could have their way, the national debate over the use of public money to subsidize private schooling would turn on the subject of special education. With research demonstrating the overall success of school voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, and with the constitutional issue of public funding of religiously affiliated schools headed for resolution in a seemingly God-tolerant Supreme Court, defenders of the educational status quo have been reduced to fanning fears that government support of greater parental choice would transform public schools into dumping grounds for difficult-to-educate students. Rethinking Schools naacp Seventeenth Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , over The argument that school choice must inevitably create special education ghettos would appear to have been strengthened by the recent adoption of market-based education reforms in New Zealand. In the late employees with a new Ministry of Education staffed by only people and putting each local school under the control of a community board of trustees. At the same time, the government abolished school zoning, allowing children to transfer freely between schools, even to private schools, at state expense.
Washington Parent Article A large selection of styles widths for fitting special needs. The Lab School of washington Tutoring for all ages (5adult) in MD, DC and VA with 11 http://washingtonparent.com/html/specialneeds/akok_listings.html
New Horizons For Learning Online Journal: Fall 2004 One Response to special needs in the Classroom Utilizing College Students as University of washington Pipeline Program Director explains her outreach http://www.newhorizons.org/journal/journal44.htm
Extractions: Dee Dickinson The Autumn issue of New Horizons for Leaning's online Journal focuses on special needs from a broad perspective. Following, you will find articles on facilitating and improving the learning of students with specific disabilities, Title I students, and those who do not speak English as a first language. You will also learn about schools, districts, and even a whole State that have been especially successful at beginning to bridge the "achievement gap." We include as well articles about meeting the needs of gifted students and older learners. Reports on conferences devoted to the arts as tools for learning and developing the imagination, and articles about learning in different parts of the world add further dimensions to the Journal. On September 16 we will open an online discussion area related to a conference that the IslandWood environmental learning center and New Horizons for Learning co-sponsored this summer. It will be located in the Meeting Spaces area of our website (you may access the link below the opening graphic of this website's home page .) The area will include handouts from the presenters and Nancy Margulies' mindmaps of the presentations. The area is open to all who are interested. As always we welcome your questions and responses to the information we offer. The Winter Journal, to be posted in December, will focus on differentiated instruction and we welcome your suggestions. You are also invited to submit related articles on your work to
Parent Coaching, Disabled Kids And Advocate special needs are able to attend the school of their parent s choice, A parent writes Our middle school twins are polar opposites in personality. http://adhdnews.com/feb2001.htm
Extractions: The proposal is comprised of a variety of key components, many of which would be implemented during the re-authorization of the ESEA. First, the President proposes to close the achievement gap by accountability for high standards as measured by annual academic assessments in Reading and math, as well as consequences for schools that fail to education disadvantaged schools. Second, the President proposes to improve literacy for creating a new emphasis on Reading in early grades and Early Childhood Reading instruction. Third, the President proposes to expand program flexibility and reduce government bureaucracy by allowing commingling of Title I funds with other federal and state funds, increasing funding for technology grants, reducing duplicative efforts by consolidation of grant programs, and creating a charter option to limit requirements of grants for those state and local educational agencies willing to be subjected to rigorous standards of accountability. Fourth, the President proposes to reward success and sanctioning failure by developing a system of accountability rewards through annual assessment of students in grades 3-8, "No Child Left Behind" rewards for schools that have made the greatest progress in improving the achievement of disadvantaged students, and reduction of federal funds at the discretion of the Secretary of Education for states that fail to meet their performance objectives and demonstrate results in academic achievement.
PORT 2000 March 1996 The Technology Newsletter for Port washington Educators at Schreiber is comprised of a class for the developmentally disabled, special class students, http://www.portnet.k12.ny.us/port2000/news0009.htm
Extractions: Quotation of the Month: "The best way to have an idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling There is quite a bit of good news to report since the last edition of Port 2000: The District is seeking candidates for the position of Director of Technology. An advertisement ran in the New York Times in early January and got an extremely good response. A group of parents and teachers will be meeting and interviewing applicants in the coming weeks. It is hoped an appointment can be made this month. An additional computer support position was approved by the Board of Education in January. Carmine Matina, Mark Glass and David Strom (co-chair, Citizens' Adivisory Committee) met in February with the District architect. In the meeting plans were finalized for the bid package for overall infrastructure improvements in the four elementary schools. This package (which the district publishes) is used by various construction companies to produce bids on the actual work. The work will include putting in place electrical and data communications wiring in the classrooms and hallways and connecting up hubs. The plan is to do all four schools this spring and summer. Because of Apple Computer's recent financial problems the District has decided to purchase PCs for use in classrooms.
NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - School Choice Helps The Disabled Opponents contend that school choice will hurt disabled children. Under the new law, parents of a specialneeds child can receive $6000 to $20000 to http://www.ncpa.org/iss/edu/2002/pd072602f.html
Extractions: In Denmark, where the government's commitment to fund private education dates back to 1899, more than 99 percent of learning-disabled children are educated side-by-side with mainstream children. The number of special school systems in the Netherlands has fallen from 14 to 4 since 1990, when the government began awarding educational stipends to parents of learning-disabled children to use at mainstream schools. In Australia, a 1998 study found that intellectually and physically disabled children who studied in mainstream schools under the country's school choice program were achieving literary and math skills equal to their peers.
Richard Lavoie: Understanding The Learning Disabled Child It does not include the developmentally disabled (mentally impaired), What can a parent do to help the special needs child with a learning disorder? http://www.growing-up.com/lavoie.html
Extractions: Richard Lavoie: Understanding the Learning Disabled Child by Linda Proudfoot M T W T his statement, a direct quote from special education expert Richard Lavoie, is more than a concept in a lectureit is the sum and substance of his daily existence. Speaking in San Francisco to a group of 900 parents and teachers, Lavoie had come to illuminate the sometimes mystifying and always frustrating challenge of helping the learning disabled (LD) child. With three Special Education degrees, he speaks with the authority of an expert and the passion of a father with a special needs child. Currently he divides his time between directing a residential school for special needs children in Massachusetts and acting as special education consultant to over 400 school systems in 42 states. E normously popular, Lavoie has appeared before audiences in 49 states, and is booked ahead for the next four years. Blessed with a natural ability to entertain, he uses anecdotes from experiences with his students and family to shed light on what this life-changing disorder can be like. L B W hat we have left are children who typically have average or above average intelligence, but are unable to achieve at their potential. Most of us think of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, but the learning disability can be in one or more of the basic processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written. This can affect the ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do math. Some examples are difficulty with visual perception, auditory processing, organizing information, or the ability to revisualize.
Preston | Gates | Ellis LLP : special Education Disputes Successful defenses of Bellevue School District in Transportation of special needs Students, Sponsored by the washington http://www.prestongates.com/people/profile.asp?id=572
