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Extractions: http://www.unitedwayalachua.org/uwiar.htm Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources Systems (FDLRS or Fiddlers): FDLRS is a program of the Florida Department of Education. They provide services to school districts, agencies, communities, and families and other persons working with students with disabilities. They are responsible for funding, tracking, evaluating, and connecting services for children from birth to 21 years of age. They do intake and screening to qualify children for special education services, including assistive technology. They also conduct parent and teacher training workshops. All of their services are free.
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Extractions: General Resources: Exceptional Parent Magazine TRI Online! Bookstore - Books About Self-Advocacy. The Parent Advocate News. The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. ... HipMag Online. Interactive web site for deaf children. Internet Resources for Special Children. For all the Special Kids of the World. The Family Village. Children with Disabilities. ... Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 1. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 2. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 3. The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. Section 504 Regulations. Neighborhood Legal Services: New York State Guidelines to Allow for the Transfer of Assistive Technology When a Student Moves from School Jurisdiction to Higher Education, Other Human Services Agency or Employment. Resources for Disabled and Special Needs Children. ... The Association for Special Kids. An organization that helps families with special needs children set up individual financial plans. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Parents' Guide to the Development of Preschool Children with Disabilities: Resources and Services.
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Extractions: An educational research project involving dolphins and children with disabilities. Table of Contents: What is the JF Dolphin Project? Objective Clients ... Dr. Janet Flowers CCC-SLP, Ed. D Project Founder - Lead Therapist What is the JF Dolphin Project? The JF Dolphin Project at Florida's Gulfarium is a one to two week therapy program for children with academic, communication, and/or physical therapy needs. It is a research based and cost efficient program designed to enhance traditional therapies. The JF Dolphin Project combines the expertise of State of Florida licensed therapists/teachers and the Gulfarium's experienced dolphin interaction trainers. The project utilizes Pantropical Spotted dolphins ( Kiwi and Daphne ) as motivational tools. Interaction with a dolphin is used to motivate children to accomplish specific therapy and learning goals. The JF Dolphin Therapy Project is the culmination of 5 years of research and development work by Dr. Janet Flowers. Dr. Flowers' breakthrough work in linking current brain research to the reasons for positive outcomes of dolphin-human therapy is the basis for the next generation of research on this topic. "DR. JANET"'s detailed reporting on increased time on time, response time and expressive communication skills for children completing dolphin assisted therapy session at Florida's Gulfarium will continue to be the focus of Dr. Flowers' research. Objective The objective of the JF Dolphin Project is to achieve greater results than traditional therapy in specific behaviors related to: attention span, communication, speech, language, gross or fine motor skills, academics, etc. The program motivates and "jump starts" a child, complements and reinforces therapy, and provides a stimulating reward. The achievements a child makes with dolphin therapy also assists other professionals, that may be working with the child.
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Extractions: All Reports, Policy Briefs, and Commentaries require Acrobat Reader March 16, 2004 NEWS RELEASE from The Commonwealth Foundation Special Education Scholarship Would Provide Relief to Public School Districts and Taxpayers Legislation would also reduce incentives to label children as "learning disabled" HARRISBURG, PA Today, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe held a news conference to introduce the "Special Education Mandate Relief and Options Act"an education reform measure that could potentially "save taxpayer dollars, relieve public schools of unfunded special education mandates, and empower parents of gifted students or students with special needs with even more options." The following are the news conference remarks from Matthew J. Brouillette, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Foundation, a free-market public policy educational and research institute: "As legislators seek to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the more than $17 billion taxpayers annually spend on todays government-run school system, the Special Education Mandate Relief and Options Act is an important part of any effort to improve and reform public education.
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Extractions: The Directory of Services is a compilation of FIN sponsored learning opportunities available to educational personnel, families and community partners. To obtain more information, contact the FIN Facilitator in your area. Building Positive Learning Communities and Fostering Natural Supports Circle of Friends This workshop guides participants through activities designed to enhance natural supports for students with disabilities in the classroom, school and community. Participants learn methods for teaching students about disability awareness and how they can build relationships that support students with disabilities. Decoding of Student Behavior This workshop is an approach based on the Positive Behavioral Supports Model. The focus of this training is on understanding the function of behavior and making adjustments to the classroom environment, context, and teaching of replacement skills. This workshop is appropriate for all educators and parents. Esteem Builders Participants are introduced to a research-based self-esteem curriculum designed to improve student achievement, on-task behavior and overall school climate. This workshop is full of activities and units of study that are cross related to grade levels and subject areas as well as additional components for student, staff and home use.
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Extractions: HOUSE BILLS: The House Subcommittee on Education and Reform of the Committee on Education and the Workforce has introduced two pieces of IDEA legislation. One is a full-scale IDEA bill, and the other is a bill concerning private school vouchers, the subject of the report we co-authored with People for the American Way and announced in RRN #20. There will be more "companion" bills to come in the next weeks. We are reviewing both bills in detail, and we will bring you our analyses next week. Today we have summaries of these bills. The Improving Education Results for Children with Disabilities Act would improve education results for children with special needs by shifting the focus away from compliance with duplicative, burdensome, and confusing rules, and placing a renewed emphasis on ensuring that children with disabilities are learning. The following provides a more comprehensive summary of the provisions included in the bill:
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Extractions: If you find links that no longer work, please let us know AccessPoints - provides those interested in special education with assessment and materials on-line catalogs, announcements of new products and events, and a collaboration newsletter. Alaska Special Ed Page Assistive Communication Device Design - WingSpeak (TM) Assistive Technology Design at The University of Texas at Austin Child and Family Studies Program - enhancing the overall quality of life for children who are at risk for, or who experience, developmental disabilities, and their families. CLASS Plus IEP Program - computer program to generate Individual Education Plans (IEP) for Special Education with criterion referenced tests. Conductive Education Information - conductive education is a unique system of teaching and learning for children with motor disorders such as Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida. Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Research Project - University of Florida - Presentation of empirical evidence of the effectiveness of CR/PM use in schools. Deaf Resource Page - Sites related to deafness, American Sign Language, and Deaf culture. By Todd Simkin.
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Extractions: Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative: The undersigned education, religious, civil rights and civil liberties, and labor organizations write to urge this Subcommittee to reject any effort to fund special education and services for children with disabilities through vouchers or other similar funding mechanisms. There is no need to expand current law to include a voucher program that diverts responsibility for public funds to private and religious schools, and undermines accountability, while doing nothing to improve access to special education or related services, or achievement of students with special needs. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), local school districts can place children with disabilities in private schools if the local school district is unable to meet the childs individual education plan (IEP). In those cases, the child must receive a program of special education and related services at the private school at no cost to the parents. The child and his or her parents have all the rights that they would have if the child were served by a public school. Because authority remains with the school district, public accountability is also retained. Additionally, parents have the option of enrolling their disabled child in a private school at their own expense. In those cases, there is no individual entitlement to special education or related services. No tuition payments are made to parents or to the private school. A voucher program would sacrifice the accountability of current law, without improving access or student achievement.
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Extractions: Scroll to see all. More Categories Similar Catagories in This Section Reference/Education/K through 12/Private Schools Health/Mental Health/Child and Adolescent/Treatment/Therapeutic Schools Health/Mental Health/Disorders/Neurodevelopmental/Autism Spectrum/Services Reference/Education/Special Education/Conductive Education/Schools WebSites Provides day school, after school tutoring, and summer programs for children who are not successful in traditional k-12 classrooms including special education. Minneapolis, MN.
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Extractions: By Robert Holland Vouchers are the education establishments worst nightmare. But for parents not knowing where to turn for help for their special-needs children, they can be a dream come true. And for children whove been inappropriately labeled, perhaps even put on psychiatric drugs like Ritalin, and shunted to a special program with no exit in sight, vouchers may offer a ladder out of the abyss. The profound change behind such hope is the McKay Scholarship, which has become perhaps the hottest new idea in education policy-making since Florida pioneered it in 2000. This is a voucher, a government-backed coupon that consumers can redeem to purchase essential services. What Florida said to parents of 350,000 students who have been identified as disabled is that if you are dissatisfied with your assigned public school for any reason, you can take a McKay voucher equal to the cost of keeping your child in the public school or the cost of private-school tuition whichever is less and use it to send your child to whatever school (private, public, parochial) you deem best for your child. Thousands are snapping up McKays and Florida papers are full of testimonials about positive turn-arounds for children now receiving individualized attention (and not just on paper) in their new schools. But national policy-makers, particularly those focused on reauthorizing the massive Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), are looking at another benefit the McKays figure to have.
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Extractions: Stateline Article Education Commission of the States 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 Denver, CO 80203-3460 Fax: 303.296.8332 www.ecs.org Expectations for Students with Special Needs Published by: Phi Delta Kappan Date: May 1, 2002 Reprinted with permission from Phi Delta Kappan One of the six goals by which the New York Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities measures its performance is: "Students receiving special education services will meet high educational standards." The new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) echoes this goal in its expectation that schools serve not only the easy-to-educate students but all students, regardless of the language they speak, their ethnicity or race, their family income, or their disability. In other words, no "soft bigotry of low expectations" should be allowed to erode the expectations in the individualized education programs (IEPs) established for the 12.4% of students receiving special education services in this country, especially when one considers that 80% or more of students labeled as disabled are considered to have mild disabilities. The 1990s saw an increased emphasis on serving as many special education students as possible in the regular classroom. Now we are seeing a push to the next level making sure schools are providing opportunities for these students to reach the goals that have been so carefully established for them. In New York, for example, the number of students who received special education services and graduated with a Regents diploma in 1998-99 had increased for seven years. And in that year, 65% of students receiving special education services who completed secondary school left with a Regents, local, or high school equivalency diploma. More than 30% of these students earned an IEP diploma (based on their IEPs) or a local certificate. The number of students with disabilities participating in higher education programs in the state in the fall of 1997 increased by 6.1% over the previous year.
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Extractions: LEESBURG Parents of children with disabilities have spent the past several years dealing with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test and some of its consequences, which include repeating third or 10th grade if a student fails. Now, they have a new issue to deal with in the form of federal legislation called No Child Left Behind. The law mandates that every child, including those with disabilities, should be able to do math and read at grade level by 2014. Some parents worry that special needs students will be penalized for falling behind, that drop-out rates will increase and children will become discouraged. I disagree with that (the legislation), because I live with children with disabilities, said Joan Ordazzo, a Eustis woman with two children in the Lake County School District. I think there need to be modifications based on abilities. I think they need to work with the specific disability.
Extractions: CEC is the largest, international, professional organization dedicated to improving educational opportunities for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. The international conference gave the 6,000 attendees hundreds of sessions, social events and award ceremonies the opportunity to augment their skills, network with colleagues and revitalize their passion for providing quality education for their students.
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