Extractions: A Person, Not a Disability: Resources on Special Needs and Advocacy Abledata http://www.abledata.com/index.htm Provides information and links on assistive technology. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sbilling/ada.html Provides links to a variety of resources about the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability information. Adaptive Physical Education http://www.mde.state.mi.us/off/sped/adptv_phys_ed/home.html Provides resources and links on adaptive physical education. ADHD Owner's Manual http://www.edutechsbs.com/adhd/ Provides resources on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including information on medical and behavioral interventions. Advocates http://www.infocom.com/~intern/ Provides resources, links, and a forum for those who wish to advocate for students with special needs. American Sign Language http://lonestar.texas.net/~imking/signpage/sign.html Provides information about ASL and gives pointers to assist people who can hear with communicating with those who cannot. Animated ASL Dictionary http://www.feist.com/~randys/index_nf.html
Special Education Services At Goochland County Public Schools Services Division) and the virginia Department of of Client Assistance Services, special Client Services transition of students with disabilities from secondary http://www.glnd.k12.va.us/special_education.shtml
Extractions: Goochland County Public Schools provides a variety of special education programs and related services for children with disabilities. The programs are provided for identified special needs children, ages 2-21 inclusive. Special Education consists of instruction designed to meet the learning needs of students who cannot learn through standard methods of instruction and curriculum. Appropriate alternative placements for disabled children whose needs cannot be met locally are also provided. You can make a difference in a child's life. If you know of a child with special needs for education, please contact Ms. Debra W. Beasley ( ), (phone: (804) 556-5625), Director of Student Services and Special Education or any Goochland County Public School principal. Advisory meetings are held at the School Administration Building on 2938-I River Road West at 6:00 PM. All citizens of Goochland County are welcome to attend these meetings. We invite you to join us. Please get involved. We need parental input to make our programs successful. The resource center was developed in 1990 to provide a variety of services to parents of children with special needs in Goochland's public schools.
Bridging The Gap Special Needs Symposium 2003 the Bridging the Gap special needs Symposium officials Support Group Roanoke, virginia Parent Information Advisors, Ultimate Medical, Disability Mentoring Day. http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/programs/prc/SpecialNeedsSymposium2003.html
Extractions: This conference is the first of its kind in the Greater Roanoke Valley and brings together families of children and adults with disabilities along with educators and professionals. The event will serve as parent training where both families and experts can network with one another and gather information. More than 60 local organizations are participating in this groundbreaking event.
Www.teacherfocus.com :: Index of Education at the University of virginia. children and youth wit disabilities ages birth Helping Misunderstood Kids ADHD / special needs / Attention Deficit http://www.teacherfocus.com/sslinks/links.php?cat=48
COPAA NewsWatch: Technology Meets Some Special Needs director of the virginia Institute for Developmental Disabilities at virginia Commonwealth University, which conducts research on special education http://www.copaa.net/newstand/atsped97.html
Extractions: With a little help from her teacher at Falls Church High School, Rachel Shilling adjusted the microphone on her headset, leaned toward a laptop computer and spoke to it in a cheery voice. "Wake up," the 16-year-old told the machine. "Begin dictate mode." The 10th-grader spent the next hour working on a paper about South American history, operating the computer through voice commands because she has almost no use of her hands. Her spoken words about Incan civilization appeared as neat sentences on the screen. When she made a mistake, she simply told the machine to go back a step or two. Rachel, whose hands are soft and bent because of a congenital defect, started using the special software known as Dragon Dictate a few months ago. Before that, writing meant struggling to hold a pen in her limp fingers. Now she can write papers and do other schoolwork much more easily, and she is thinking more seriously about going to college. "This is a great thing. It makes me more independent," said Rachel, the first Fairfax County student to use Dragon Dictate in school. "Now I can be like other students."
HSC - Special Needs Children and who struggled with learning disabilities himself) and Attorney Reed Martin, of West virginia, is the If both the provision of special needs services and http://www.hsc.org/chaos/specialchallenges/legal_in.php
Extractions: From Chaos to Confidence Introduction to Homeschooling Getting Started ... Join - Volunteer - Support By Linda J. Conrad Jansen, Esq. Many homeschoolers are reluctantly drawn to homeschooling because the schools failed their children. This trend is expanding to include children in special needs programs, resulting in an increasing number of questions from parents choosing to homeschool their children who are interested in continuing or obtaining special needs help from the schools. In many instances a special needs child shows tremendous gains just by being removed from the public school situation and educated at home by loving and caring parents who are able to provide the stimulation and enrichment each child needs and deserves. If services are offered the family is not required to accept them. Many families do just fine without government help, but if you need it, special needs services are available to homeschoolers. A search of the Internet reveals several sites committed to special needs legal issues. The California Department of Education, http://www.cde.ca.gov/spbranch/sed
Scott County Schools Special Education in Scott County may have a disability should call the Brenda P. Robinette Supervisor of special Education 261 East Jackson Street Gate City, virginia 24251. http://www.scott.k12.va.us/central office/cosped3.html
Extractions: Appropriate Services for Students with Special Needs Scott County Public Schools pays special attention to the needs of children with disabilities. Every effort is made to educate all students in the "mainstream" of public education. The "Least Restrictive Environment " is considered for each child. To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities are educated with children who are not disabled, and that special classes, separate schooling or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily. It is recognized that a variety of special programs are necessary to service the range of complexity and severity of disabilities. The following is a description of the various special education services provided by the Scott County School System. Special Education Programs A. Preschool (Homebased/Centerbased)
Special Needs Resource List for the nutrition needs of children with disabilities? of School Age Children with special needs a Resource and Patricia White Richmond, VA virginia Dept. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/service/foodsn1.htm
Extractions: This publication is a compilation of resources for professionals involved in school food service. The resources are in a variety of information formats: articles, books and full-text materials on the World Wide Web. The resources included for this list contain reliable information and are available nationwide. Your local library or bookstore can help you locate these materials. Other items can be obtained from the source listed. Opinions expressed in the publications do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Resources that are part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) collection have an NAL Call Number listed. Lending and copy service information can be found at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/general/lending.html . URLs are included when the material is available online in full text. Materials cannot be purchased from the Library. Please contact the publisher/producer if you wish to purchase any materials on this list. The categories are: A.
Extractions: Floyd County Public Schools provide special education programs for children with disabilities, ages two through twenty-one. Services include programs for children with mental disabilities, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, emotional disturbance, speech-language impairments, physical disabilities, multiple disabilities, developmental delays, traumatic brain injury and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Early warning signs of disabling conditions include difficulties in seeing, talking and hearing, delayed motor skills, delayed physical development, difficulties in social and emotional development. In order to provide a full range of services, the Floyd County School Division works closely with the Floyd County Health Department, Child Development Clinics, Children's Specialty Services, Mental Health Services, the Department of Rehabilitative Services, Virginia Department for the Visually Disabled, and other public and private agencies. All special education and related services are provided free of charge. Children with disabilities are those classified as mentally disabled, emotionally disturbed, hard of hearing, deaf, speech and language impaired, visually disabled, multi-disabled or have a specific learning disability. Because of such impairments, mental, physical, sensory, language, or emotional, these children may need special education or related services.
Extractions: Home Textbooks Books Music ... Product Support Joe P. Sutton, Ph.D. Educating mildly disabled students has not been a high priority item on the educational agendas of many private Christian schools. In fact, recent studies show that special education in Christian schools is almost nonexistent, where only between 8 and 16 percent of Christian schools nationwide operate formal programs (Carver, 1989; Sutton, in press). With the emphasis placed on disabled persons in the Scripture (Sutton, 1990) however, most Christian educators would probably agree that our schools must do more in providing for the needs of mildly disabled students through formal special education programs. It is clear, then, that Christian educators must recognize two things with regard to mildly disabled students. One is that these students are not limited to just special education classrooms anymore, and will in all likelihood be present in regular classrooms to some extent. Two is that as mildly disabled students are identified and mainstreamed into regular classrooms, the regular classroom teacher will be the primary educational caregiver for these children, not the special education teacher. Regular classroom teachers in Christian schools, therefore, must be more cognizant of the basic characteristics and educational needs of mildly disabled students. Moreover, given the current novelty of special education in Christian schools, it would profit all Christian educators to know more about this unique group of students. This article seeks to provide answers to three basic questions: (a) who are mildly disabled students? (b) what criteria are used to identify them? and (c) what are some of their general characteristics?
Special Education Resource Site University of virginia special Education Web Site. start your search for links about disability and special on working with the child with special needs in the http://www.wcape.school.za/subject/speced/spechome.htm
Extractions: CHI Committee Home Page offers advice and support for all those concerned with the well being of of children of high intelligence. A.D.D. WareHouse Online Catalog - Products for Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD Owner's Manual - Practical Help and Useful Tips on the latest Interventions and Methods, Medications and other Interventions for the child With ADHD How Teachers and Educators can effectively reach the Hyperactive/ADD Child ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER - description and signs/symptoms of ADD: Beverly Price: Journey into ADD. Calliope Books: ADD - Literature about Attention Deficit Disorder/ADHD. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder - How to cope with ADHD in children and adults, for parents, teachers and children alike.
Index.htm edc.org/FSC/NCIP/; Office of special EducationUniversity of VA http//curry.edschool.virginia.EDU80 in England, and helping to educate disabled refugees in http://www.shawnee.k12.ok.us/educationresource/specialed.htm
Special Education In Radford City Schools one, inclusive residing in the Commonwealth of virginia are identified whether a child has a disability and the nature and extent of special education and http://rcs.rcps.k12.va.us/SpecialPlace/
Extractions: Radford City Schools The Code of Virginia provides that all handicapped persons from ages two to twenty-one, inclusive residing in the Commonwealth of Virginia are identified, evaluated and have available a free and appropriate public education. The special education process is often referred to as a maze and an ever changing system. If you have a child who may need Special Education services you will begin entering this maze and hopefully learn about the various steps to getting needed services. Before you get your child the services parts of this system may change. This system change is dictated by the needs of youth with disabilities and legal actions to improve the system in place. The major purpose of this web site is to keep the citizens of Radford City informed of the various processes in place and the many changes that take place at the federal, state and local levels. Through understanding the special education process and regulation, your journey through this maze can be smooth and effective in meeting your child's needs. Special Education Processes Things You Should Know Special Education Programs Links ... Tools Special Education Processes Child Find Identifying children with disabilities in Radford City Schools Child Study Committee (CSC) A committee that enables school personnel, and non school personnel, as appropriate, to meet the needs of individual children who are having difficulty in the educational setting.
Helen A. Kellar Institute For Human Disabilities | Resources Learning Disabilities Association of virginia AbilityHub Assistive for people with a disability who find Serving Individuals with special needs A professional http://kihd.gse.gmu.edu/resources.htm
Special Ed Resources Links at the University of virginia. website designed for kids who are seriously sick or disabled. Internet Resources for special Children IRSC is a World Wide http://www.nhgs.tec.va.us/SpecialEd/sped_resources.html
Education, General And Special PO Box 487; Morgantown, West virginia 26507 USA Find information on learning disabilities, ADHD, gifted the education of Children with special Educational needs http://www.kansas.net/~cbaslock/educat.html
Extractions: AE , a non-profit organization, was founded in 1978 to address the environmental issues that confront people with disabilities and elderly people. Adaptive Environments promotes accessibility as well as universal design through education programs, technical assistance publications and design advocacy.
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation | About CBTF free legal advocacy for children with special educational needs in National Parent Network on Disabilities 1727 King Street Alexandria, virginia 22314 (703 http://www.cbtf.org/school.html
Extractions: Returning to School Many children can continue to attend school while they are in treatment. Accommodations in school may be needed: Wheel chair accessibility for classrooms and toilet facilities Special bathroom privileges Playground or gym exemptions or adaptations Opportunities to rest Classroom seating arrangements for hearing, vision or attention problems
Links achieve positive outcomes on behalf of people with disabilities or other special needs by providing virginia Department of Education Look to this site for http://www.peatc.org/links.htm
Extractions: Home Events Calendar Reading PEATC Initiatives ... Resource Links Links The following is a list of Internet-based resources for parents, educators and others involved with special-needs children. Abilities Action Team Disabilities Links - This page provides information to help ensure that people with disabilities have access to the online resource that can assist them in overcoming any challenges that they may face. Ability Online Support Network - Connects young people with disabilities and chronic health conditions to disabled and nondisabled peers and mentors. Access-Able American Association on Mental Retardation - Works to advance knowledge and skills of professionals in the field of Mental Retardation by supporting the exchange of information and ideas. The Arc - Voluntary organization committed to the welfare of people with mental retardation and their families. Arc of Virginia - Virginia chapter of The Arc with links to local chapters in the state. ASPIRA Association, Inc. - Highlights its two national involvement programs ASPIRA Parents for Educational Excellence Program (APEX) and Teachers, Parents, and Organizations for Students Program (TOPS). Each program provides a Spanish/English curriculum that strives to empower Latino parents and families. Assistive Technology Funding and Systems Change Project Association for Children With Down Syndrome Autism Society of America Bazelon Center For Mental Health Law - Provides information about services and benefits available for children with disabilities.
Additional Diploma Option For Students With Disabilities Proposed County, and chair of the virginia State special is an important alternative for secondary students with disabilities. and parent of a special needs child from http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/NewHome/pressreleases/feb200.html
Extractions: Endorse Proposal Virginia Board of Education President Kirk T. Schroder and Acting Superintendent of Public Instruction Jo Lynne DeMary announced today a proposal to create a Basic Diploma program for certain students with disabilities at the secondary level. The diploma option will be considered by the State Board of Education as part of the Standards of Accreditation (SOA). Participation in the Basic Diploma program will be determined by the students Individual Education Plan (IEP) team at the end of the students eighth-grade year. To be eligible for the Basic Diploma option, the IEP for the disabled student will include participation in the Standards of Learning-based curriculum and testing throughout the students elementary and middle school grades. Under current procedures, an IEP team can opt a disabled student out of the SOL curriculum and testing entirely. That student could receive a Special Diploma under existing state law. Under this proposal, disabled students will have another option, the Basic Diploma. The Board will adopt criteria for the program that will ensure that students who earn the Basic Diploma have demonstrated competency in the basic skills of reading, writing, and math and have acquired occupational skills that will lead to gainful employment upon graduation.
