School Districts Strive To Include All Students - Thetimesherald.com it not only helps the students with special needs, it helps study of inclusion at two michigan high schools rates for students with disabilities increased after http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20031223/localnews/91181.html
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Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children Reston VA. Life Skills Mastery for Students with Special Needs. ERIC Digest #E469. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS? WHAT ARE LIFE SKILLS? Life skills include a wide range of knowledge and skill interactions believed to be essential for adult independent living (Brolin, 1989). At present, many students with handicaps have special needs that are not being met. These students require education and support to learn these necessary behaviors. They must be able to dress and groom properly, use appropriate table manners, make decisions about money, and use transportation to get to work. The three major skill areas that need to be addressed are daily living, personal/social, and occupational skills. WHAT ARE DAILY LIVING SKILLS?
In The News - Recent Stories districts around the state of michigan, Watkins said from the Detroit News Atrisk, special needs kids get have greater empathy for people who are disabled. http://www.mipublicschools.org/news/archive/recent_news.htm
Extractions: South Redford secretary receives first-ever state School Support Person of the Year Award Jacquelyn McGuire, school secretary at Fisher Elementary in South Redford, thanks colleagues and students after being named Michigan School Support Person of the Year. Indeed, Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Watkins began his remarks by praising Fisher students, teachers, support staff and parent volunteers. Disability Awareness Day brings positive results Greenville Middle School sixth-graders now have greater empathy for people who are disabled Disability Awareness Day coordinator Korie Wilson-Crawford (above) with students Heather Moore, who uses a wheelchair because of a physical disability, and Fernando Pimentel, who tries navigating a wheelchair for the first time.
Article | Report Targets Special Needs professor of economics at the University of michigan. federally recognized categories of special education, accounts wrongly label students as disabled just to http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_bg-report_targets_special.htm
Education Programs For Disabled Students Under Attack In Michigan the testimony of parents of special education students son struggled to overcome several disabilities in his was the closure of mental institutions in michigan. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2001/educ-m09.shtml
Extractions: 9 May 2001 Use this version to print Send this link by email Last month students, teachers and parents rallied on the steps of the state capitol building in Lansing, Michigan to oppose plans by the state's Department of Education to reform the Michigan Special Education Code. The proposed reforms would slash education and therapy provided by public school districts to tens of thousands of Michigan children with disabilities. The reforms, which could go into effect some time in the next school year, will force families to pay a greater share of the cost of essential and often expensive services. Parents who cannot pay will see their children go without. The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, a special committee appointed by state officials, developed the changes, claiming they were required to bring Michigan law in line with federal regulations. When the current Michigan rules for special education were first established in the early 1970s there was no nationwide requirement for even the most basic education for physically, cognitively or emotionally impaired children. In 1975 the federal government mandated minimal standards and partial federal funding for some services in public schools. When the US Congress authorized the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990, the earlier federal standards were incorporated into the new act.
Extractions: "The question that Congress must ask is why have so many states had to introduce resolutions or pass legislation to curb schools labeling and drugging children? Unfortunately, the answer is that until IDEA is reformed, and Congress provides a physically based scientific definition of 'disability,' the diagnosing of children with subjective disorders will continue to be a national problem." Mrs. Patricia Johnson solutions for behavioral and learning problems in the classroom. When Congress originally passed IDEA, covering Special Education, its primary purpose was to provide a Free and Appropriate Education for children with hearing, sight, speech and other physical handicaps. Over the ensuing 27 years, the funding has been largely funneled, instead, to children with "learning disorders," a term so subjective that children who fidget, butt into line or interrupt their teachers are so labeled. In most cases they are subsequently prescribed cocaine-like, mind-altering drugs. Many of these children simply have never been taught to read. Clearly, there is a critical need to provide an objective, scientifically based definition of "learning disability," and this must be the central point of reforming IDEA.
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Extractions: Overview Program Areas Undergrad Admission/Continuance Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs ... Special Education Home Make a selection Mission Statement Belief Statement Department of Special Education Opportunities for Employment Scholarship Information Department Faculty Continuing Your Education More Information Mission Statement The mission of the Department of Special Education is to create an exemplary educational environment to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skills and to encourage the intellectual curiosity and creativity of its students. Students will be prepared as professionals who deliver habilitative/rehabilitative service to persons with special needs and their families. Graduates of the Department of Special Education will provide leadership for the profession in the 21st century. Belief Statement We believe that: Teaching is our primary responsibility
Fairness A Challenge When Developing Special-needs Tests Susan Phillips, PhD, of michigan State University been allowing students with special needs extra time differential advantage to learningdisabled students when http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec99/in2.html
Extractions: Monitor staff When special-needs students are granted more time to take the SAT, does that give them an unfair advantage over other students? Or does it merely level the playing field, allowing the students' true abilities to shine through their disabilities? That's the dilemma facing test developers, many of them psychologists, as they try to create valid, meaningful tests and at the same time accommodate people with disabilities. Many researchers are looking for solutions to that problem in response to the 1997 revision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires states and districts to make educational tests available to students with disabilities by 2003. Meanwhile, testing administrators are also seeking to design fair tests for the increasing number of test takers who are not native English speakers. Developing accommodations for these students is no easy task, say psychologists who research and develop tests. Changing a test, whether by extending the time someone has to take it, allowing people to read items aloud or providing translations or glossaries, may change its validity. And, testing experts say, an altered exam may no longer assess the same ability or skill it was designed to measure or the outcome it's designed to predict, testing experts say.
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Extractions: Careers and Jobs. Children. Cognitive/Developmental. Commercial Links. ... Miscellaneous Links Back to the top of the page . Ability OnLine. Blind Children's Center. CFSP. Child and Family Studies Program. Children's Vision Concerns. Books about Children and Visual Impairment. DREAMMS for Kids, Inc. Educational Technologies for kids with special needs. Help for the Family of a Special Needs Child. Macomb Projects. Young Children with Disabilities. Our Kids. Raising kids with special needs. Parents Instructing Challenged Children. Parenting Resource Center. R.J. Cooper. Assistive products for children. SAFE-T-CHILD.
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Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children Reston VA. Life Skills Mastery for Students with Special Needs. ERIC Digest #E469. WHAT ARE LIFE SKILLS? Life skills include a wide range of knowledge and skill interactions believed to be essential for adult independent living (Brolin, 1989). At present, many students with handicaps have special needs that are not being met. These students require education and support to learn these necessary behaviors. They must be able to dress and groom properly, use appropriate table manners, make decisions about money, and use transportation to get to work. The three major skill areas that need to be addressed are daily living, personal/social, and occupational skills. WHAT ARE DAILY LIVING SKILLS? Many students with disabilities will marry and raise families. The majority will probably earn modest salaries; therefore, it is crucial that they learn how to manage a home, family, and finances as effectively as possible. Some states require that these skills be taught to students with special needs. Instructional responsibility lies with special educators, regular educators, parents, and peers. The following skills are some that have been identified as essential for independent adult living (Brolin, 1989): MANAGING PERSONAL FINANCES
Brattleboro Reformer - City Town Leahy, a Democrat, joined only michigan Democrat Debbie identification of children with special needs, reducing the who are improperly labeled as disabled. http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102%7E8862%7E2150113,00.html
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Michigan City News Dispatch Online to understand what it s like to be around disabled people Take the example of michigan City wrestler Kevin Hutson, who allowed a special needs grappler to http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/05/13/columns/parkhouse_adam/col91.t
Extractions: Home Fall 2003 edition Study: charters have fewer special ed students Current edition Latest NEWSFLASH Archives ... Contact us Fall 2003 edition Eye on special education Study says charters have fewer special ed students by Paul Socolar W hy are special education students more scarce in charter schools than in regular public schools in Pennsylvania? This is a key question raised in the states five-year evaluation of its charter schools, published last year. It merits serious investigation, some special education advocates say. The states charter school law forbids charters to discriminate on the basis of disability. Western Michigan University researchers Gary Miron, Christopher Nelson, and John Risley, who wrote the Pennsylvania charter school evaluation, found that three-fourths of the states charter schools had a lower proportion of students with IEPs (Individualized Educational Plans) than the statewide average. Overall, only 8.5 percent of Pennsylvania charter school students (excluding gifted students) had IEPs, compared with 13 percent of noncharter public school students statewide. If not for two charters with very high percentages of special education students, the low special ed enrollment rate at Pennsylvania charter schools would have been even lower.
