WELCOME TO THE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA of the children in the program are disabled or have other special needs. administrators and staff from Arizona, California, Nevada, hawaii and Pacific http://phoenix.gov/CITZASST/hsdeduc.html
Extractions: MAYOR/CITY COUNCIL BY DEPARTMENT BY SERVICES EMPLOYMENT ... HOME Search Calendar Maps Service Directory Word Search Four-year-old Veronica was paying attention the day a speaker from the Fire Department talked to her Head Start class about what to do in case of fire. The firefighter carefully explained that if the children ever smelled smoke at night, they should crawl along the ground, wake an adult and call 911. Several weeks later, Veronica woke up and noticed smoke coming into her home from the garage. Recalling the firefighters words, she crawled along the floor into her grandfathers room. She awoke him and he started to jump up, but Veronica reminded him that they should crawl along the floor. They woke her mother and all three crawled to safety. Although the home was gutted by the fire, the family is alive and well thanks to Veronicas quick thinking. The Education Division has two major programs: Head Start and School-Based. The mission of Head Start is to promote self-sufficiency by providing quality, comprehensive child and family development services. The city of Phoenix serves about 3,000 low-income children each year. The program has about 450 employees, including both city employees and those who work for Head Starts 14 delegate agencies. Head Starts dedication to racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is reflected in its employees, who represent the rich heritage of Arizona. Head Start provides services in education, health, nutrition, parent involvement, social services and mental health. At least 10 percent of all openings are reserved for children with disabilities. Typically, at least 13 percent of the children in the program are disabled or have other special needs.
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.
Education And Schools Lawyer: LegalMatch Legal Topics whether or not your child needs special education or The rights of disabled students are different for each http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/education-and-schools.html
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World Reach from various foundations, the hawaii Educational Foundation Don t work with Learning disabled Kids and China Conference on Educating Students with special needs. http://www.shakleeinstitute.org/2000Winners.html
Extractions: 2000 Award Winners ANGELA ALLEN-MCDONALD - Angela Allen-McDonald is a non-categorical special education teacher at Roosevelt Elementary in McPherson, Kansas. Her 23 students range in grade from kindergarten through fifth grade and may have disabilities such as mental retardation, learning disabilities, or other health impairments. The majority of her students are served in the general education classroom using a team teaching model. Ms. Allen-McDonald received a B.A. in Elementary Education from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas in 1989. She received a Masters in Elementary Education in 1998 from Kansas State University. In 1988, she received the Special Education Student of the Year award from the Kansas Association of Special Education Administrators, as well as the Student of the Year Award from the Kansas Council for Exceptional Children. TEZELLA CLINE - Tezella Cline teaches at Spaugh Middle School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. She currently teaches sixth and seventh grade students in a self-contained classroom, where she works in a team comprised of one teacher, one teacher assistant, and one behavior management technician. The eight students currently served in this setting have been diagnosed with varying degrees of behavior and emotional disorders.
Extractions: Archived Information A Study of Charter Schools: First Year Report - May 1997 Chapter III To what extent are charter schools serving students who have special needs, are language minority students, or are from economically disadvantaged situations? To answer these questions, more intensive research is necessary for several reasons. The definitions of special education, limited English proficiency, and economic disadvantage vary from state to state. Moreover, documenting the services provided by charter schools involves in-depth research at the school level. At this stage, the Study can provide preliminary indications based on telephone survey data. Students with disabilities. Exhibit 16 Estimated Percentage of Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools, 1995-96 and All Schools in the Ten Charter States, 1994-95 State Percentage of students with disabilities Charter schools All schools California Arizona Michigan Colorado Minnesota Massachusetts Wisconsin New Mexico Georgia Hawaii Because we only have state averages for all public schools in the state, we were unable to draw on data for individual schools in each state to examine the distribution of students with disabilities in all public schools in the state. Consequently, these comparisons should be considered as only a broad indication of the extent to which charter schools are serving students with disabilities compared to other public schools.
Extractions: The untold story of special education O Upon greater scrutiny, this oft-repeated scenario does not hold up. For years, many students with the worst disabilities have attended private schools at partial or even full public expense. Far from abandoning the needs of special education students, the private sector is supplying what the public school system has failed to provide. More specifically, public school districts currently foot the bill for more than 100,000 special education students attending private schools at an estimated cost of $2 billion to taxpayers, according to U.S. Department of Education figures and industry estimates. In most of these cases, public schools have come to rely on specialized private schools to educate their toughest disability cases, when doing it themselves would be prohibitively expensive. "A voucher isn’t really the right analogy," says Mike Petrilli, program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, which supports education reform efforts from a conservative perspective. "It’s really closer to contracting, like the Edison Project," the for-profit school management company that manages more than 50 public and charter schools across the nation. "But it makes a lot of sense to contract out this function to a company that can pool its resources."
AmeriCorps*State And National Direct members work with parents or caregivers throughout hawaii who have a child with special needs. the awareness of the needs of the disabled and their http://www.americorps.org/joining/direct/direct_hi.html
Extractions: To apply for an AmeriCorps position, use our web-based recruitment system The descriptions below are for programs active as of April 14th, 2003. Please note that descriptions in the recruitment system represent future positions, and may be different from those listed below. Programs are organized alphabetically by city. AmeriCorps members in 6 existing programs provide enriched and individualized community service to some of Hawaii's most vulnerable people. Members will provide training in recreation and independent living skills to children, while simultaneously providing respite services to parents; serve as classroom aides to teens with profound mental health problems; provide education and support to perpetrators of domestic abuse; provide an array of services to Hawaii's elderly population; provide education and advocacy to mothers who are trying to protect their children from intra-familial sexual abuse; and enrich skill building to autistic children.
Extractions: January 4, 2004 Several years ago, leading a tour group of four in London, Jim Peterson spied a sign in a store window advertising five tickets to the evening's Eric Clapton concert at Prince Albert Hall. Peterson immediately bought the tickets. "I took it as a sign from God that there were five tickets and five of us," he said.
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Special Education - Teacher Issues special Education Certifications Requiring a Masters Degree. Alabama. Early Childhood disabled. Speech/Language. Vision. California. X. Audiology. Georgia. X. hawaii. 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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Extractions: Advertiser Staff Writer Variety School of Hawai'i is a small facility on the slopes of Diamond Head that has been dedicated to helping students with learning disabilities since 1961. Occupational therapist Aileen Yamada supervises exercises by Variety School student Sam Mahoney, who tosses a bag into a barrel while riding a swing. The staff of the private school on the slopes of Diamond Head also includes specialists in learning disabilities, language pathology and physical education. The mission of the private school — formerly known as Variety Club School — is "to identify and educate children with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders, and to assist these children in achieving their maximum potential." The 73,000-square-foot facility serves students ages 5 through 13. It doesn't have grade levels, but groups students by their level of development and ability.
Extractions: Advertiser Courts Writer More than a decade of federal court supervision over how the state provides public education services to mentally and emotionally disabled students is drawing to a close. EZRA Yesterday morning, U.S. District Judge David Ezra approved an agreement that in June 2005 will take him out of the business of making sure the state Department of Education complies with a federal law that requires a "free and appropriate public education" for disabled or "special needs" students. The mother of disabled student Jennifer Felix filed a lawsuit in federal court in 1993 claiming that the state had failed to comply with federal law. The Felix case subsequently grew into a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all learning-disabled children in Hawai'i.
Illinois H.O.U.S.E.: Homeschooling The Special Needs Child in knowing how to get services for special ed kids. the needs of children; condition and disability files and To subscribe LISTSERV@UHCCVM.UHCC.hawaii.EDU Text http://www.illinoishouse.org/a13.htm
Extractions: Please update your bookmark for this page to http://www.illinoishouse.org/a13.htm Homeschooling the Special Needs Child Have you read the information on how to deal with questions about socialization, both from family members and others? Read them again, because this applies even more to those whose children have special needs. I remember talking to a teacher of slow learners. She was indignant that one of her former students was to be homeschooled. The child was already immature, she said, implying that being among her family would make her more so. Later I talked to her mother, who said that once her child was removed from an immature peer group she had improved dramatically. This seemed eminently plausible to me. That is not to say that your child should be removed from all peer contact. All homeschoolers I know are careful to see that their children are around other children in many situations. Church groups, Scouts, Camp Fire Youth (NOT just girls) and 4H are groups that are willing and eager to serve ALL children. It is an act of courtesy to inform the group leader in advance of the first group meeting, so that any special accommodations can be made and so that any appropriate explanations can be made to the other children. Don't forget that social behavior is taught by people of all ages, and that your child will benefit from exposure to a variety of friends of differing ages. What about socialization for the parent? I assume you already know the ways to get along in group situations, but homeschooling a special child can get pretty lonely. You can attend meetings of one or more homeschool support groups, you can start your own group if there is not one nearby, you can try the support group for parents of children with your child's difficulty, and you can join the council for Exceptional Children. There is a national children with special needs National Challenged Homeschoolers Network.
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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.
