Upper Darby School District in the eastern portion of delaware County, is made Finally, a special Education program, servicing over 1,300 classes for the learning disabled, trainable and http://www.udsd.k12.pa.us/admin/biography.php
Extractions: Upper Darby School District, "Vision Becoming Reality" UPPER DARBY SCHOOL DISTRICT - BIOGRAPHY The Upper Darby School District takes great pride in its products. That "product-line" is highly varied and boasts a high rate of success. Graduates of the Upper Darby School District have entered all walks of life and have made many positive contributions to society. The district, located in the eastern portion of Delaware County, is made up of Upper Darby Township, Clifton Heights Borough and Millbourne Borough. It has a highly residential complexion and is home to over 89,000 people. The over 12,000 students of Upper Darby are serviced by twelve schools. There is Upper Darby Senior High School, encompassing grades 9 through 12; Drexel Hill and Beverly Hills Middle Schools, which house grades 6 through 8; and Aronimink, Bywood, Garrettford, Highland Park, Hillcrest, Primos, Stonehurst Hills, Westbrook Park Elementary Schools, and the Kindergarten Center.
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Extractions: The Master of Arts in Education degree program allows students who have an interest in a discipline other than education (and have earned at least 24 prior credits in that discipline) to specialize in that field. Up to half of the credits toward the master's degree may be taken in the area of concentration.
Special Needs Directory : Hudson Valley Anderson School Dedicated to providing the highest quality the Learning and Developmentally disabled, ADD/ADHD, PDD, Autistic and other special needs. http://www.hudsonvalleysojourner.com/directory/Community/Special_Needs/
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Better Services Exist For Learning-disabled Children Better services exist for learningdisabled children. program supervisor for the delaware-Blackford special Educating special-education students costs more than http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/6/016475-2836-037.html
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName="" var server="" var channel="Local News" var pageType="" var pageValue="" var prop1="" var prop2="" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="local_news" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" /********* INSERT THE DOMAIN AND PATH TO YOUR CODE BELOW ************/ /********** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE! *************/ var s_code=' ' MUNCIE - It's unlikely these days that a child with learning disabilities will fall through the cracks, so to speak, and not get the attention he or she needs. There was a time when teachers simply did the best they could with children not working at grade level. But now, it is more likely that a child with a learning disability will be identified sooner and therefore helped sooner. Teachers are better informed, and parents, at least most of them, are more open-minded about the subject. The term "learning disability" was first coined in 1963, according to Barbara Rothlifberg, professor of school psychology at Ball State University, and public schools have been expected to address learning disabilities since 1975, when federal legislation was first enacted.
Delaware: Brainstorming - Our Newsletter For Medicare beneficiaries and the disabled without drug coverage. We owe special thanks to Marty Brereton who the Brain Injury Association of delaware for its http://www.biausa.org/Delaware/brainstorming.htm
Extractions: Welcome to new board members Winter/Spring 2004 Tenth Annual BIAD Awards Presented October 8, 2003 Governor Ruth Ann Minner signed a proclamation designating October as "Brain Injury Awareness Month". She also presented the 10 th Annual BIAD Awards for outstanding contributions to the states brain injury community. The Community Award was presented to Neil S. Kaye, M.D. and neuropsychiatrist, and a member of our Advisory Board who willingly gives his time and expertise and has been a frequent speaker at many BIAD functions. He has been recognized by Delaware Today Magazine as a Top Doc three times in a row. His special interests include helicopters, food and wine, and lathe turned wooden objects. Dr. Kaye brought Jay Burch of Pfizer, Inc. who presented BIAD with a very generous check to be used toward our Conference. The Advocacy Award was presented to John Goodier, father of a survivor, co-facilitator of the NCC Support Group, BIAD Treasurer, and Chairman of the Brain Injury Committee, a sub-committee of the State Council for Disabled Persons. He is also finance officer and pilot in the New Castle Senior Squadron of the Delaware Wing, Civil Air Patrol and is a member of the Middletown-Odessa Rotary Club. A luncheon followed at the Blue Coat Inn.
PANEL A Vineyard woman who grew up with 2 disabled siblings and I am now a professional clown in the delaware and Columbus drew Mike to Himself in a special way, and http://www.bridgebuilders.4mg.com/new_page_15.htm
Extractions: Panel Featuring the following Sibs. One of our Body Builder teens playing the special music for the night. Josh practiced hard to play "Help Somebody Cry" by Greg Long. He did a wonderful job! Now meet the panel.... Two sisters, 17 months apart in age and older than their brother. Cathy and Debra older sisters to their special brother sitting here with their Dad. Debra is the Director of Bridge Builders, a ministry for people affected by disabilities at The Vineyard Church of Columbus. Cathy has been a Special Education teacher for over 20 years. Both are older to their brother Rodney, a 42 year old man who is severely mentally retarded, autistic, non-verbal and can be aggressive. Born typical, Rodney experiences brain injury from a high fever at the age of 6 months. He received a basic diagnosis a couple of years later when it became apparent that he was developmentally delayed in many ways. The diagnosis became more refined as he matured. Growing up on Long Island, NY and later moved to Ohio when he was a teen, we have shared many sibling experiences and new beginnings: special education schools including The Rosemary Kennedy in NY, Starlight School in Newark, Ohio and West Central in Columbus, Ohio. We've survived mainstreaming, inclusion, group home (Project Synergy) and currently a FCBMRDD residential living situation. We have far too many more "social" experiences to classify here. Church was not a big part of our life because our brother was not included. The public system, MRDD, became our sanctuary. It was our "church".
Delaware Assistive Technology Initiative - DATI Newsletter called the MEDICAID OPTION FOR disabled CHILDREN delaware Medicaid requires a complete description of the FAPE includes special Education Services for children http://www.dati.org/newsletter/issues/1993n1/AT3.html
Extractions: Text Version Ron Sibert, DATI Funding Specialist These are exciting times for children with disabilities. Assistive technology (AT) can enable many to learn and participate more fully in activities with their nondisabled peers. While not all AT is expensive, paying for devices and services is still a common concern. Resources are out there. Getting to them is just a matter of understanding and working within the appropriate system. Described here are two major AT funding streams for children and adolescents with disabilities: Medicaid and the School System. MEDICAID OPTION FOR DISABLED CHILDREN . Use this term when inquiring about eligibility. Every state that participates in the Medicaid program receives matching funds from the federal government. In Delaware, the match is 50 cents on the dollar. That is, the Federal Government reimburses the State for 50% of the funds spent on providing Medicaid services. Each state must file a state plan detailing the services covered under its Medical Assistance (Medicaid) program. Some of these services are mandatory and others are optional. That is, participating states are
Special Education - Teacher Issues special Education Certifications Requiring a Masters Degree. Alabama. Early Childhood disabled. Speech/Language. Vision. X. Speech/Language Pathology. delaware. X. http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/49/02/4902.htm
Extractions: StateNotes Special Education 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 Denver, CO 80203-3460 Fax: 303.296.8332 www.ecs.org State Efforts Regarding Teacher Preparation, Certification, Recruitment and Retention October 2003 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) took bold steps toward ensuring children with disabilities receive the free and appropriate public education to which they are entitled. One of the major issues addressed by the legislation is the quality of teachers for children with special needs. IDEA 97 requires students receiving special education services to be educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent practicable. As a result, according to a 2001 report from the Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education, 75% of students receiving special education services spend 40% or more of their day in general education classrooms. Consequently, 96% of general education teachers currently teach, or have in the past taught, children with special needs. How have states responded to the challenge to prepare general education teachers to meet the needs of students with special needs? According to ECS Teacher Preparation Policy Database (http://www.tqsource.org/prep/policy/), 46 states and the District of Columbia currently have statutes or regulations requiring teacher education programs to provide some instruction on teaching children with special needs to individuals seeking initial training in elementary or secondary education. The amount and content of this instruction, however, varies dramatically.
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Montgomery Newspapers more than 2,000 kids in delaware Valley s foster Christopher attends a special education school where he Annie is classified as multiply disabled and gets http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7217371&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=49533
Extractions: Index Differently-abled This site help us understand how it is to be different. It succeeds beautifully with open and sensitive treatment of disability issues. Visual disabilities are the ones you can see, like cerebral palsy. Invisible ones, such as bulimia or ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), also affect one's entire life. Simulations are offered to help you to step into another's shoes and imagine how your life would be if you were differently-abled. Visit Site 1997 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Languages English Students Cole Discovery Middle School, Madison, AL, United States Patrick Neeta School- Medford Lakes School District, Medford Lakes, NJ, United States Katie Shawnee High School - Lenape Regional High School District, Medford, NJ, United States Coaches Nancy Parent, Madison, AL, United States Anne Appointed by Parent, Medford Lakes, NJ, United States Richard Parent/School Appointed, Menomonie, WI, United States Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world.
Changes In Special Education Michael N. Castle, Republican of delaware, said that largest singleyear increase in special education aid of money to pay for severely disabled children, whose http://azschoolpsychologist.org/NASP/Update 10-02.html
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'Modest' Changes Seen For Special Education the call for vouchers, which would allow disabled children to Representative Michael N. Castle, Republican of delaware, said that special education law http://www.bridges4kids.org/articles/9-02/NYTimes9-28-02.html
Extractions: Early On Lead Poisoning Positive Behavior Support No Child Left Behind ... Detroit Parent Network Where to find help for a child in Michigan Anywhere in the U.S. , or Canada What's New? Help Text Menu ... Translate Last Updated: Article of Interest - Special Education 'Modest' Changes Seen for Special Education Prompted by the White House refusal to pay the full federal share of special education costs, Senator James M. Jeffords, the Republican chairman of the Senate education committee, quit his party and became an independent, swinging power in the Senate to the Democrats. Advocates for disabled children feared that a presidential commission on special education would issue not a report, but a withering critique tearing special education to shreds. But as the House and Senate prepare to take up reauthorization of the special education law early next year, members of each party appear to have climbed down from the ramparts, and their talk is more of consensus than conflict. Rather than reinvent special education with a raft of tough new federal laws, as they did for general education last year, lawmakers are talking of compromise and a piecemeal approach to change.
Number 2 Pencil: Summer School Blues undue stress, repeated failure, and, in delaware, summer school Act was also intended to keep special ed kids all but the most severely learningdisabled kids. http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/archives/000095.html
Extractions: Kimberly's take on testing and education reform Main Over 6000 youngsters in Delaware are attending summer school due to their poor state standardized test scores, but the system isn't working for the relatively large percentage of them who are special education students. According to this article in the News Journal, special ed students are being placed in summer school classes that are far too difficult for them: Of the 6,452 public school children required under Delaware law to attend summer school this year because they did poorly on state achievement tests, 37 percent are special education students. And unlike the regular school year, when they comprise only 11 percent of enrollment statewide, many of the special education students are in large summer classes without special education teachers and struggling with test material several grade levels higher than the level at which they learn... State and federal testing laws subject special education youngsters to undue stress, repeated failure, and, in Delaware, summer school classes that don't meet their needs, said parents, teachers and other educators. Summer school students are re-tested during the semester, and the the special education students, in particular, don't like the tests. One student even drew a picture of himself "his throat slit and blood pouring out" during the exam. Other kids just give up or start to cry.
