Autism Society Of Wisconsin - ASSEW Jan/Feb 2000 Newsletter AUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHEASTERN wisconsin NEWSLETTER. Don t Diss the disabled. or quarterback Doug Flutie as guests because they all have specialneeds children. http://www.asw4autism.org/ASSEW/news100.htm
Extractions: Wish For The New Year Ellen was recently hired to be a Paraprofessional for a student with autism. At first, she was excited and enthusiastic but somewhat intimidated. Ellen had a high school education and had not been in a school building since her two grown children were young. She wasn't sure what they meant by autism, but she had seen some TV shows about it and it seemed interesting. A few weeks into the job, Ellen felt much different. She was responsible for the student all day with hardly any breaks. Ellen became very exhausted and was not sure she was doing what she was supposed to do. The teachers would give her scraps of information. Ellen knew that when she was in class, she was supposed to adapt the curriculum for him. But what did that mean? Sometimes the Special Education teacher handed her work to do with the student and at other times, Ellen came up with ideas herself. She really liked working with the student, but she desperately needed help. What is wrong with this picture? Many times even experienced teachers feel inadequately trained in curriculum adaptation, but we frequently give this task to our least experienced personnel. Paraprofessionals can assist in designing and implementing curriculum adaptations, but the responsibility for curriculum decisions lies with the student's teachers.
Special Needs Aquatic Program Cover Feature Strength training for the disabled educates, activates and integrates. OCR 05932206, special needs Aquatic Program vs University of wisconsinStevens Point http://www.palaestra.com/swim3.html
Extractions: SNAP, located on a college campus, has made the commitment towards an inclusive early childhood swim program. Creating and maintaining this type of environment have been accomplished due to the attention given to specific administrative, physical, and attitudinal barriers. By doing so, more positive scenarios of children with disabilities participating alongside peers without disabilities in regular learn-to-swim classes have occurred. By providing opportunities for all children at a very young age to recreate together, we can hope that these opportunities have positive and lasting impacts, reaching into adulthood. Selected References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PRESENTATIONS Assessment Planning for Learning disabled Adults. 2000 Summer, Accommodating special needs in the Classroom. Staff Development for the wisconsin Rapids Area http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/dupham/ProPort/Scholarship/Presentations.htm
Extractions: Therapy/Respite Camps for Kids This page evolves as people tell me about new camps, so if you know of camps that are not listed here, please email me so I can get the information posted here. If you direct a camp that would like a simple WWW page that describes your camp, I'll be pleased to put one up just email a description of the camp to me. Also, please let me know about any other WWW resources to which I should have a link. Thanks! Information about summer camps that focus on therapy for kids with special needs and/or respite for the kids and their families. I have broken it into national categories and regional categories in the USA: Apologies in advance if my sense of these regions differs from yours! If you cannot find an appropriate camp on this page I also have some links to other potentially useful pages as well as some other websites that list camps. I list all of the camps I know of, so please do not email me asking for help locating a camp. Thanks. Connecticut
Extractions: Related Articles Other Articles This Week School Issues Center Archives: ... Assessment School Issues Article S C H O O L I S S U E S A R T I C L E Can high-stakes tests cure what ails education? Today, Education World explores the issue of high-stakes testing. We examine whether the tests hurt some students, especially English-learning, low-income, and learning-disabled students. It sounds so simple: Test kids on what they should know, and hold teachers and students accountable for those scores. If students don't pass the test, then hold them back a grade or deny them their high school diploma. Are High-Stakes Tests the Answer?
WEB Server For The Physically & Intellectually Disabled PostPolio Resource Group of Southeastern wisconsin; Helps For The Handicapped; special needs Education Network; DAN The disabled People s Direct Action Network; http://www.dpa.org.sg/DPA/links.htm
INDEX OF PROGRAMS BY PRIMARY SERVICE TYPE Easter Seal Society of wisconsin. Epilepsy Center South Central. Services for disabled and Nondisabled Youth. Program for Children with special Health Care needs. http://danenet.wicip.org/dcyc/yrdir/indexp.htm
ECS Resource Allocation Piece By Allan Odden The University of wisconsin (UW)CPRE web site (www.wcer.wisc.edu produced increased funding for and attention to the special needs of disabled, low income http://www.casbo.org/oddendec99.htm
Extractions: T of students achieve at or above proficiency and Californias testing shows even lower levels of student performance. Accomplishing the goal of teaching a higher percentage of students to or above proficiency requires doubling or even tripling current results. However, education dollars in California will not increase by that rate. Thus, the only way California, as well as other states, can accomplish the current goal of teaching students to high standards is to improve the productivity of the education system to use education dollars more effectively to boost results. Since education is a service and labor-intensive activity, improving productivity by the levels needed to accomplish the student achievement goals poses a bold challenge to the education system. Four recent Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) publications identify several strategies for improving education productivity: In "Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources: Some Thoughts From High Performing Schools,"
Education, General And Special Dayton that serves the states of Ohio and wisconsin. The disabled Students Program The disabled Students Program School Boarding School for special ed/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.
NAPTA: TEACHERS FLEE SCHOOLS problematic than parents of nondisabled children; and have more at stake with special Education teachers for blind students, even though wisconsin requires a http://www.endteacherabuse.org/flight.html
Extractions: Bridget Andrews spent five years at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, working on a college degree in special education. She spent only one year as a teacher before calling it quits. "I loved the students, and the hardest part about not teaching anymore is I don't get to see those cute little faces every day," said Andrews, 26, now a financial adviser in Fond du Lac. "I miss that part. The parts that were difficult were administration, lack of support." Andrews is emblematic of one problem special education faces. For the last decade, teachers have left the special education profession at almost twice the rate that they have left regular education positions. Read Teacher Stories: Mix, Andrekus, Van Zuidam, Settlegoode for more understanding of why Special Education teachers are even more dissatisfied - or more abused. In the mid-1990s, the situation was so bad that two years saw more than 14% of the state's special education teaching population leave each year. At that rate, nearly half the state's special education staff could turn over every three years. Compounding the problem is the number of teachers who leave special education to become general educators, about twice as many as those who do the reverse. In fact, so many teachers leave special education or choose not to enter the field in the first place, about half of the emergency licenses the state issues every year to people who don't meet all the requirements for full licensure are for the special education field alone.
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
82nd State Education Convention Exhibit Show - Special Issues experience of developing one of wisconsin s first virtual legislation on the needs of disabled children in This panel of special education experts from around http://www.wasb.org/convention/conv2003/edshow specissues.htm
Extractions: Telephone: (202) 225-4525 Education Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Benefits of Parental Choice in Special Education Floridas McKay Scholarships Provide Parental Choice for Special Needs Students WASHINGTON, D.C. The Education Reform Subcommittee today heard testimony on several special education-related issues, including innovative programs that enhance parental choice in special education. This is the third in a series of hearings to lay the groundwork for reform and reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which House Republicans hope to pass through Congress this year. Several states have taken the lead in finding innovative approaches to improving special education and giving more options to parents with special needs children. Florida, for example, last year launched a program that provides education choice for parents of disabled students. The McKay Scholarships are available to parents who want to ensure that their special needs children receive a quality education. According to Education Week , Florida education officials received more than 14,000 inquiries from interested parents in the first few months of the McKay programs existence. (Lisa Fine, August 8, 2001)
JESNA - 404 The National Jewish Council for the disabled is dedicated Jewish Education Listing of Jewish special education websites that every child in wisconsin who needs http://www.jesna.org/cgi-bin/resources.php3?op2=18
Assistive Living Links - CICIL Disability Resources; University of wisconsin; Vermont Computers and The Opportunities for the disabled Foundation Helps Provide special needs; The Roeher http://www.raccoon.com/~cicil/links.htm
Extractions: Lifestyle Non-Profit Organizations and Governmental Agencies General Resources Ability and Access - McMaster University ABLEDATA - Gopher system Access Technology (ATIC) Adaptive Tech From University of Toronto Arrowsmith School Assistive Technology Education Network of Florida ... DO IT Disabilities Opportunities Internetworking Drake University Resource Center Eagle Hill School EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Evan Kemp Disability Resource Home Page ... Institute for Special Education - University of Fribourg/Switzerland Institute on Comunity Integration - at the University of Minnesota Integrated Network of Disability Info Iowa Program for Assistive Technology Johns Hopkins University Kurrambee Special School - From Australia
Many Labeled Learning-disabled our kids are considered special needs, said Joni coordinator for the Madison (wisconsin) School District. students, she said, are labeled learning disabled. http://members.home.nl/aeissing/00632.html
Camps: Special Needs Easter Seals wisconsin. An organization whose goal is to provide disabled individuals around the camp and retreat center for boys and girls with special needs. http://www.puredirectory.com/Recreation/Camps/Special-Needs/
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Cognitive And Developmental Diabilities Resources offered by the University of wisconsinMadison s School Parents who have disabled children and want to special needs Education Network A Web site created under http://waisman.wisc.edu/www/mrsites.html
Extractions: Cognitive and Developmental Disabilities Resources (in alphabetical order by title) ACDD The Web site of the Alabama Council for Developmental Disabilities. AAMR The Web site of the American Association on Mental Retardation. AAUAP The home page of the American Association of University Affiliated Programs for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. ADA and Disability Information A WWW page with links to other Web and Gopher sites dealing with the Americans with Disabilities Act and disabilities in general. ADA Information Center On-Line A Web site of information about the Americans with Disabilities Act, made available by the ADA Project. Located in Columbia, Missouri, the ADA Project is one of ten regional centers funded by the National Institiute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, a division of the U.S. Department of Education. Their purpose is to provide technical assistance and training concerning the ADA to businesses, institutions, agencies, and individuals. The project serves the four state region of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. Adaptive Computing Technology Center The University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Campus Computing, Adaptive Computing Technology (ACT) Center's goal is to implement adaptive computing in a manner which enhances integration of people with disabilities into the higher education environment.
Special Needs school goals for learning disabled students have learner, and those with special needs may have Linguistics Symposium, University of wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. http://www.sbuniv.edu/~tsukany/esl-ther/special.htm
Disabled Adults Learn Computer Skills At Wisconsin Catholic Center disabled adults learn computer skills at wisconsin Catholic center. celebrated the center s continuing role of empowering adults who have special needs. http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2004/02/13/US-1/
Extractions: Disabled adults learn computer skills at Wisconsin Catholic center Published: 2004-02-13 ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (CNS) A special graduation ceremony held at St. Ann Center for intergenerational care Feb. 4 marked the completion of an adaptive computer course for 24 adults with severe cognitive and physical disabilities. The event also celebrated the center's continuing role of empowering adults who have special needs. "Many people are unaware of the benefits that this type of program can offer," said Sister Edna Lonergan, a Sister of St. Francis of Assisi who is president of St. Ann Center. "It is so exciting to see the joy on the face of someone who cannot talk or that has restricted physical movement," she added. "They can use these specialized computers to gain access to the Internet as well as e-mail. It can open up a world of possibility for those who have felt very alone and isolated." ALSO ON THIS DAY Disabled adults learn computer skills at Wisconsin Catholic center Picture of child sex abuse in U.S. society clouded by lack of data
