1. MSBA.org - Publiations Law in maryland Educational Rights of Children with special needs must receive special education services with non-disabled children as with special needs. schools must provide an http://www.msba.org/departments/commpubl/publications/brochures/educationrights.

Publications Publication Brochures School Law in Maryland - Educational Rights of Children with Special Needs The Maryland State Bar Association’s Public Awareness Committee and the Advocates for Children and Youth, the Maryland Disability Law Center has prepared this information. It is intended to inform the public and not serve as legal advice. Please note that the online version contains information not available in the print edition. Introduction Under the federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and corresponding state law, a child with a disability, which affects his or her learning has a right to a free and appropriate public education. A child is entitled to a program, which is designed to meet his or her individual learning needs. This includes specially designed classroom instruction and related services needed by the child to benefit from the education program. Who is Eligible for Special Education Services? Children with disabilities from 3 to 21 years old may be eligible for special education services.

2. Healthy Pet | Human/Animal Bond: Pets Living With Disabilities special needs, not to mention as fearless, stubborn, and regal as a Doberman Pinscher. " Not only does he not know that he's disabled for maryland's Pets on to schools, nursing http://www.healthypet.com/Library/animal_bond-18.html

Human/Animal Bond: Pets Living With Disabilities As veterinary medicine advances, veterinarians are able to help an increasing number of animals with serious problems, and these animals are living longer than ever before. The number of animals with disabilities, chronic diseases, and other conditions that require special care is constantly rising, and these animals are beginning to find a special place in pet owners' hearts. "Animals are amazing in their ability to recover and adapt to life with a disability," says Dr. Robin Downing, a veterinarian in Windsor, Colorado. "Often it's much harder for us as people to get over our prejudices about special needs pets than it is for the animals to get over their disabilities." Less obvious needs Many animals with mental retardation or cognitive function problems can do quite well with a little extra attention from owners, though results can vary widely depending on the pet's condition. Dr. Downing's cat Kramer was born with cerebellar hypoplasiapart of his brain did not fully develop. He can think and reason as well as any other cat, but he has problems coordinating the movement of his legs, and he often stumbles and falls. When he does, he simply picks himself up again. "He was born this way," explains Dr. Downing, "and he's never known any other kind of life. He doesn't know he's different from any other cat." Kramer mostly lives his life as a normal cat, but he does require some protection from staircases and other precarious places where his falls could be dangerous.

3. Maryland Electronic Capital - Education special schools in the State of maryland special schools in maryland. maryland Association of Nonpublic special he or she needs, like effective communication, social programs for emotionally disabled teenagers in a nurturing http://www.mec.state.md.us/education/special.html

Special Schools in Maryland Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities The Benedictine School Benedictine's highly qualified staff (1:4 staff/student ratio) works in the classroom, in the community, and in Benedictine's Residential Program to help each individual (ages 5 to 21) develop the essential skills he or she needs, like effective communication, social skills, and personal hygiene. Wm. S. Baer School #301 The mission of the William S. Baer School is to provide appropriate educational medical and therapeutic programs for students with developmental delays, from three through twenty-one years of age by facilitating their physical, academic, social and emotional growth in all developmental domains through various activities involving school, family and community in order to prepare them for living productive lives. The Chimes Providing educational, vocational, habilitative, residential, leisure, and other support services for people with barriers to independent living, including people with mental retardation and related handicapping conditions. Hannah More School Hannah More School is committed to providing excellent academic and therapeutic programs for emotionally disabled teenagers in a nurturing environment, enabling students to develop the skills necessary to reach their greatest potential in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse society.

4. Family Friendly Fun And Special Needs Resources - Schools Classrooms Family friendly fun and special needs resources schools classrooms whom are developmentally-disabled children. They live schools to secure the educational success of children with disabilities and special needs home . maryland School for the Blind http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/links/schoolsclassrooms.html

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5. KinderStart - Child Development : Special Needs Child Organizations Maine. schools/Organizations maryland. schools/Organizations Massachusetts young children. ( special needs) Add/View attention to disabled and special kids, readily http://www.kinderstart.com/childdevelopment/specialneedschild

KinderStart Alta Vista Ask Jeeves Excite Google HotBot GO LookSmart Lycos Webcrawler Adoption Animal Friends Bringing Home Baby Child Development ... Child Development : Special Needs Child Categories Advocacy Groups Diagnosis/Warning Signs Educational Issues General Information ... Support Groups Web Pages The following links are in English A.D.D. Consults A.D.D. Consults offers psychoeducational services to individuals, families and professionals via private e-mail. For those who live in areas where information on Attention Deficit Disorder may be scarce. Add/View Comments Rate this Site "The Misunderstood, Misdiagnosed and Unseen Disability" Sensory Integration Dysfunction-This paper will explain sensory integration dysfunction to the point of understanding the nature of this unseen (and often misdiagnosed) disability, as well as its psychological, emotional, learning and social effects on the individual. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Abilitations Abilitations is the industries leading children's therapy and special needs catalog with product mix including movement, special education, sensory integration, adapted play and more. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Ability OnLine Ability OnLine is a friendly and safe computer friendship network where children and youth with disabilities or chronic illnesses connect to each other as well as to their friends, family members, caregivers and supporters.

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Resource Files family fun, family health, special needs, disabilities Home Meet Topics Files News Tour Schooling Schools Other important Schooling Schools files: ABLE - http://www.able.state.pa.us Educational programs designed to provide basic educational skills equivalent to grades to 12 in speaking, reading, writing, arithmetic, higher order thinking and problem solving, English as a Second... AboutSchool.com: School Resources for Teachers and Students - http://www.aboutschool.com This school education site will help students, teachers and parents succeed in all school subjects... AEHI Home Page - http://www.aehi.org     Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired (AEHI) Midwest Center for Cued Speech   Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School     ... After School Catalog * School-Age NOTES Resources - http://www.afterschoolnotes.com School-Age NOTES Resources gives you access to over 100 resources for projects and themes, activities including, arts and crafts, multicultural ideas, games, science, music and movement, self esteem, ... After School Catalog * School-Age NOTES Resources - http://www.afterschoolalliance.com

7. 92.01.05: Getting To Know Your Classmates With Special Needs of special needs Children Program in the Branford Public schools, which I Within its guidelines, disabled children were given the C Gerwig Lane, Columbia, maryland, 21046. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/1/92.01.05.x.html

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Home Getting to Know Your Classmates with Special Needs by Mary Ellen Leahy Contents of Curriculum Unit 92.01.05: Narrative Lesson Plan 1 Lesson Plan 2 Lesson Plan 3 ... To Guide Entry The primary objective of this unit is to sensitize both students and teachers to special education students and their needs and their rights. Many regular education students and teachers have had limited contact with special education students. They have very little understanding of the various handicaps of children with special needs. The information and activities in this unit will help Non-handicapped students get past their misconceptions and misunderstandings about children with handicaps. Teachers must help their students to understand and accept their peers with special needs. Teaching students about the various disabilities the other students have will foster an understanding of students with special needs. It is ignorance about disabilities and handicaps that breeds fear. Through education, non-handicapped students will learn to respect and understand the handicapped students as individuals. The second objective of this unit is to help the mainstreamed child with special needs to feel comfortable, accepted and confident in his or her classroom.

8. The Sentinel Newspapers Montgomery and Prince George s Counties, maryland. Public schools system s refusal to adequately meet the needs of disabled and special education students. http://www.thesentinel.com/print/286447665108814.php

Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland The Sentinel Newspapers June 10, 2004 Disabled Rebel Against County 'Neglect' Stage March in Rockville By Brendan Armbruster Staff Writer It may have been a bad joke that set things off, but a group of parents, teachers and students decided to march in protest through the rain on Monday against what they claim is the Montgomery County Public Schools system's refusal to adequately meet the needs of disabled and special education students. "This has been going on for 10 years," said Barbara Fichman, of what she called the MCPS system's neglect of special-need students. She was standing outside the Board of Education building with about 100 others. "And Greismann represents a culture in MCPS that denies services to special education kids," Fichman said. She was referring to Zvi Greismann, an attorney for MCPS, who made news earlier in the month for an appearance at an annual national conference last May that focuses on students with disabilities issues. Greismann made several comments in a skit performed at the conference that he has described as satirical but that many parents, who obtained a video copy of the performance seven weeks ago, said were inappropriate and offensive.

9. Tapping Technology - Technology Co-op member schools and organizations, spread throughout maryland. Inclusion laws have placed disabled children throughout the names of special needs children and http://www.mdtap.org/tt/2001.06/art_1.html

June, 2001 Technology Co-op Bringing Needed Devices to Schools, and Saving Money, Too! by Corinne F. Hammett Wheelchair mounts; a padded device holder; a Buddy Button Switch; an augmented computer keyboard for young children; talking word processors, and a Co-Writer that is a word prediction profile: this is just a tiny example of the complex and large array of often highly expensive equipment that special needs children require to learn skills for daily living and education. Though Maryland law mandates that schools provide the equipment, tight budgets, lack of information on what is available and limited teacher and professional training venues have resulted in enormous problems. Acting individually, schools and organizations often have neither the time or the money to plunge wholeheartedly into this vast resource of technology. Especially when one expensive device is needed for an individual child. D Susan Garber, Director of AT:LAST and Western MD TAP regional operations, shows off an augmentative communication device in the central MD demonstration center located at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center in NE Baltimore.

10. WASHINGTONIAN/Special-Needs Private Schools A few others locally have a specialneeds component in addition Jump down to maryland Virginia. 6 through 21 years with developmental disabilities; funded by http://www.washingtonian.com/schools/private/specialneedsprivate.html

PRIVATE SCHOOLS Private Schools for Those Needing Special Attention The following schools are structured for students with special needs. A few others locally have a special-needs component in addition to their mainstream offerings, including Annapolis Area Christian School; West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland; St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel; Dominion Christian School in Oakton; and Paul VI Catholic High School and St. Leo the Great School in Fairfa Bilingual schools are indicated with a square ( ); those that take boarders have a circle ( ). K stands for kindergarten. Jump down to Maryland Virginia District www.kennedyinstitute.org www.kingsbury.org www.labschool.org Maryland www.chelseaschool.edu www.foundationschools.org www.foundationschools.org www.foundationschools.org ... www.louriecenter.com Pershing School at Chelsea, 713 Pershing Dr., Silver Spring 20910; 301-585-3924. 5th-7th grade for bright children with language-based learning differences; $20,000; 10 students. www.pershingschool.com www.phillipsprograms.org www.thesummitschool.org Virginia www.learyschool.org

11. Therapy/Respite Camps: Kids With Autism And Other Special Needs A page with information about summer camps for kids with special needs Windsor schools in special needs program in Warsaw, OH. Specific services available for the emotionally challenged, developmentally challenged, hearing impaired, learning disabled http://wmoore.net/therapy.html

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! What's Here? 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: United States Northeast Southeast Midwest Southwest ... Greece 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. Camps in the Northeast (USA) Connecticut Camp Horizons provides winter weekend get-a-ways, a week long holiday event, and 8 weeks of residential summer camp for children and adults who are mild to moderately mentally handicapped. In South Windham, CT.

12. Special Needs Schools Online Devereux maryland Center, Baltimore, MD The Devereux programs for students with special needs ages three to serve students with learning disabilities or who http://privateschool.about.com/od/schoolsneeds/?terms=speciale

13. Bel Air High Best Buddies opportunities for friendships, for students in special education with their nondisabled peers Eddie Diggs, manager of the maryland Ravens, said his team http://www.hcps.org/Schools/Highlights/BAHS_BestBuddies.asp

Harford County Public Schools on the Web Home Our Schools Our Schools Highlights > Bel Air High Best Buddies Share Strengths Bel Air High Best Buddies Share Strengths Students with disabilitities receive friendship and support from general education peers. Everyone can remember a best buddy he or she had in high school someone to share the highs and lows, to look to for support when things get a little out of hand, a person with whom to exchange hopes and dreams. At Bel Air High School and several other schools in the county, the term 'Best Buddy' has taken on a new definition. Part of a national program, the effort pairs a student with physical and/or mental special needs with a volunteer student from the general education rolls, encouraging the two to take part in school and social activities both during the school day and away from school. Nancy L. Davis, sixth year Special Education teacher at Bel Air High, started the school's chapter of 'Best Buddies' four years ago. "Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of students with special needs by providing one-to-one friendships," said Ms. Davis. "We have a meeting at least once a month and some of our activities have included a pizza party, bowling, movies, and going to Friendly's for ice cream.

14. Who We Are support services from The maryland School for the are blind or visually impaired and multiply disabled. these children and meeting their special needs, but it http://www.mdschblind.org/HTML/whoweare.html

Who We Are What We Do What's New Learn More ... Home Our Vision The Maryland School for the Blind strives to be: The premier statewide resource for the specific educational and living skill needs of all individuals (particularly ages 0-21) with visual impairment in Maryland. The statewide training center for those who work or live with individuals with visual impairment. A model demonstration site for the education and employment of individuals with visual impairment. Our Mission The Maryland School for the Blind educates children and youth with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities for functional independence. Children need to laugh and play. They need to feel good about themselves. They need to feel part of the world around them, to enjoy a beautiful day, to know that they are part of something larger than themselves. Children need time to be children. This is a simple truth that is so obvious that it is often overlooked; however, it is an important part of the daily routine here at The Maryland School for the Blind. Since we first opened our doors in 1853, we have treated the whole child, not just the disability. We provide instructional, residential, orientation and mobility, recreational activities, health services, physical, speech and occupational therapies and Braille instruction. We teach all of the basics, including math, reading and science, in addition to the specialized services tailored to meet the needs of our students. We also understand the role of caring and compassion as it relates to our students. We make them feel special and important. We encourage them to try new things, to make new friends, to expand their horizons.

15. Special Needs And Technology Perryville, maryland. Insight Foundation New Item Details Technology Meets Some special needs Devices, Software Help disabled Students Overcome http://www.educationnews.org/special_needs_and_technology.htm

The Internet’s Leading Source of EducationNews Daily News Bulletin Board Free On-Line Subscription Home ... Contact Us recognized as a quality online resource for education reporters November 2002, Education Writers Association (over 900 members) Special Needs and Technology Special Education Technology - British Columbia SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program designed to assist school districts in British Columbia in meeting the technology needs of students with physical URL: www.set.gov.bc.ca./ Journal of Special Education Technology -Deaf Education Home Page Curriculum Materials Home Page. Journal of Special Education Technology. Key Words: Curriculum Materials, K-12, General... Special Education Technology TOC CFDA: 84.327: Special Education: Technology and Media Services for Individual -CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE. 84.327: Special Education: Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities. Popular Name:... URL: aspe.os.dhhs.gov/cfda/p84327.htm SIGSPED member reports on the Michigan Special Education Technology Conference SIGSPED member reports on the Michigan Special Education Technology Conference. by Cynthia K. Hayes. MACUL/SIGSPED offered me the opportunity to attend... URLmacul.org/newsletter/1998/summer98/sigconf.html

16. Maryland Recreation And Art Resources For People With Disabilities And Their Fam maryland special needs Day Camps a list sponsored by Preston children with disabilities and non-disabled children, ages PO Box 429, Churchton, maryland, 20733 http://www.linc.org/resfun.html

Maryland Recreation and Arts Amusement Parks with Accessibility Features Art, Theater and Dance Camps County Recreation Programs ... Water Sports - Boating, Sailing, Swimming Amusement Parks Amusement Parks Exceptional Parent Magazine indicates that these amusement parks have some accessibility features Six Flags America - restrooms, telephones, restaurants, rides/attractions, theaters, parking, wheelchair rentals, sign language interpreters, guide dogs are permitted, first aid, alternate entrances for rides and special ticket rates. 13710 Central Ave., Largo, MD 20755. Phone: 301-249-1500. Frontier Town - restrooms, restaurants, parking, guide dogs permitted, first aid, alternate entrances for rides, special ticket rates. PO Box 691, Ocean City, MD 21842. Phone: 410-289-7877. Trimpers - restrooms, restaurants, rides/attractions, parking guide dogs are permitted, alternate entrances for rides, some employees have special training in working with people with disabilities. PO Box 157, Ocean City, MD 21843. Phone: 410-289-8617. Art, Theater and Dance

17. Looking At Baltimore’s Experience - Philadelphia Public School Notebook - Sprin to be inclusive of students with special needs, to require and supportive of the mission of small schools. as a paralegal at the maryland Disability Law Center http://www.thenotebook.org/editions/2004/spring/baltimore.htm

Home Spring 2004 edition Looking at Baltimore’s experience Current edition Latest NEWSFLASH Archives ... Contact us Looking at Baltimore’s experience Small schools hold promise for students with disabilities by Pat Halle Question: Can small schools improve learning outcomes for students with disabilities? Answer: With lots of determination and deliberate effort at the community and school level by parents, teachers, and community members, along with clear and specific support at the school district level... yes. There is enormous potential in small schools to meet the individual learning needs of students with disabilities. The personalized learning environment in small schools creates the possibility that teachers will discover the particular kind of mind each one of their students has, will understand the kinds of learning skills each lesson requires, and will learn to provide the accommodations and modifications in instructional practice that students need. However, small school size alone does not assure that special education services will be delivered in compliance with legal requirements or that instructional programs will be designed for all kinds of learners.

18. Mikulski Joins Colleagues In Passing Special Education Bill, Vows To Continue Th Everywhere I go in maryland, I hear about special education. Parents of disabled children face Caring for a child with special needs can be exhausting. http://mikulski.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=221515

19. Special Needs News & Views (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) Ed Testing Plan Raises Ire If maryland s specialeducation teens nearly impossible for their learning-disabled children to old son, Tavon Hood, needs a diploma http://www.susanohanian.org/show_special_news.html?id=10

20. Special Education, Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh Resource Guide families in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and maryland. to visual impairment are disabled by other that provide services to students with special needs. http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/education/k12/specialed.html

Select Library Area: Ask a Librarian Careers at CLP Computer Classes Directions Employment Genealogy/History Homework Help Hours Kids' Site Library Subject Guide Locations Renew a Book Request a Book Research Databases Resource Guide Search Subject Departments Support the Library Teens' Site Subject Search: Web Site Catalog Internet Search Database Search Events Search Resource Guide: ... K-12 Special Education Pittsburgh Region Pennsylvania United States International See also Disabled: Children and Disabled: Education Pittsburgh Region The Children's Institute http://www.amazingkids.org/ Located in Pittsburgh, (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute), this is the region's leading comprehensive rehabilition facility dedicated to serving the special needs of children and young adults. DePaul Institute http://www.oraldeafed.org/schools/depaul/ Where Deaf Children Learn to Speak. Located in the South Hills The Early Learning Institute http://trfn.clpgh.org/teli/ programs and services for children with developmental delays The Institute for Learning Abilities was created to help children and adults overcome serious cognitive and learning disorders.

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