Extractions: For Advocacy Support Videos and Handbooks Nationwide Services A Turnaround Organization Online Educational Advocacy and Counseling reasonable rates. Bodin Associates based in Los Altos, CA and serving a national and international client base. Education Management Consulting assessments for school placement and evaluation and for legal proceedings involving educational issues and institutions. Keys to Safer Schools provides advocacy services to parents of children being discriminated against by school districts LD Online interactive guide for children, parents, teachers, and others involved with learning disabilities National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems referrals to local agencies Richard Crandall providing free services via the Internet. Advocates for Human Potential based in Sudbury, MA. Judith E. Greenberg Child and special education advocate also provides expert witness testimonybased in Rockville, MD. Rockville, Potomac
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Extractions: Focus Adolescent Services Need help for your teen? Call FocusAS or Learning Disabilities ADD/ADHD Asperger Syndrome Special Education Teaching and Learning Click here to find out if your child is at-risk, displaying self-destructive behaviors, and needs your help and intervention. Home Resources State Directory Schools ... Contact Warning signs of learning disabilities in secondary school students occur as a pattern of behaviors to a significant degree over time. They include the following: Language/Mathematics/Social Studies Attention/Organization Difficulty staying organized Trouble with test formats, such as multiple choice
NSLC - NSLC Library Charleston, WV West virginia Department of Education, 2000 Students with Disabilities and the Can ServiceLearning Play a Role? Keeping in PACE/special Ed 3 http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/333/
Extractions: NSLC Library Bibliographies Disabilities and Special Needs Students and Service-Learning: Selected Resources Disabilities and Special Needs Students and Service-Learning: Selected Resources Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, March 2004. http://www.servicelearning.org National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Special Education/Disabilities Links . Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, n.d. Articles and Resources Available Online Constitutional Rights Foundation. Service Learning and Special Education Service Learning Network 9 no. 2 (2002). http://www.crf-usa.org/network/net9_2.htm Corporation for National and Community Service. Learn and Serve America Program Directory Learn and Serve America. http://www.servicelearning.org/article/archive/45/ For a selection of examples of service-learning programs involving special needs students, you can search the directory for keywords such as "disabilities" "disabled" "special needs" or "special education". Institute on Community Integration. Yes I Can: a Social Inclusion Curriculum for Students with and without Disabilities . Minneapolis: Author, 2001.
Parents Excel In Teaching Their Special Needs Children that assist students with learning disabilities to improve homeschooling is beneficial for specialneeds students. 1. was expelled from public school at age http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A%3D153805%26M%3D200130,00.h
Extractions: Headlines Viewpoints Apologetics EXTRA! ... Encouragement Parents Excel in Teaching Their Special Needs Children Written by Chris Klicka Objective studies demonstrate that parents are providing a superior form of education for their special needs children by teaching them at home. Contrary to the claims of the education elite, parents do not have to be specially certified or have special qualifications to teach their handicapped children at home. In fact, in one of the most thorough studies performed thus far, Dr. Steven Duvall conducted a year long study involving eight elementary and two junior high students with learning disabilities. He compared one group of five students that received instruction at home with a group of five students who attended public schools. He was careful to match the public school students to the homeschool students according to grade level, sex, I.Q., and area of disability. Using a laptop computer, Dr. Duvall sat in on teaching sessions and took an observation every twenty seconds, creating tens of thousands of data points that were then fed into a statistical analysis package. Normally his research included a second observer who double-checked Dr. Duvall's readings. Dr. Duvall recorded and analyzed academically engaged time by students during
Extractions: Related Articles ... Archives Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E Whether you teach in a special-education program or in a "regular" classroom, you probably encounter special kids facing special challenges. This week, Education World brings you information about on-line resources that can help you better understand and help students with special needs. Editor's note: Be sure to see Education World's LESSON PLANNING story this week. The story, Understanding Kids Who Are Different: Activities for Teaching About Disabilities , provides lessons and activities for teaching students all students about tolerance.
NCIP Links University of virginia Office of special Education; University programs for the Specific Disabilities. Resource Center at the NY Institute for special Education; http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/links.htm
Extractions: NCIP Links Below is a list of links that provide information, and resources relating to technology and students with disabilities. This list was last updated July 1998 USE THIS MENU TO JUMP TO SECTION HEADINGS TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES SPECIAL EDUCATION ... top top top top Ability's Web Site for the Disabled CODI - Cornucopia of Disability Information at SUNY at Buffalo NYISE - The NY Institute for Special Education SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet ... Solutions@disability.com
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Extractions: 1998 Award Winners JEANMARIE BANTZ - Jeanmarie Bantz is currently a Special Education teacher at Walker Upper Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia. She works with 5th and 6th grade emotionally disturbed and learning disabled students in a team-taught program she designed with Jenn McCullough. Ms. Bantz received a B.A. in Elementary/Special Education from Boston College in May 1986 and a Masters in Special Education/Behavior Disorders from Kent State University in 1990. She has a total of 12 years experience in the field of Special Education and received the "Outstanding Elementary Teacher" award from the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, as well as the "Teacher of the Year" award from the Ohio Council for Children with Behavior Disorders. JENN McCULLOUGH - Jenn McCullough is currently a Special Education teacher at Walker Upper Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virginia. She team-teaches 5th and 6th grade students who have been identified as having a learning and/or emotional disability. She was instrumental in designing this program she teaches with Jeanmarie Bantz.
Special Needs And Technology Columbia in meeting the technology needs of students 7. Assistive/special Education Technology Opportunities The Center for Human disAbilities. http://www.educationnews.org/special_needs_and_technology.htm
