1. Washington State Special Education Coalition will make it easier for schools to provide disabled homeless and foster children with children, particularily those with special needs in washington State. OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES http://www.wssec.org/

CONTACT MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTEE INFO. ONLINE RESOURCES ... WSSEC SURVEY Welcome to the Washington State Special Education Coalition web site (www.wssec.org). This site provides information about the issues and public policy matters on which we focus. Use the menu to find out more about our organization and projects. Stay in the Loop-Sign up for our WSSEC email listserve and you will receive information about special ed and related childrens issues, trainings, workshops, and legislative updates. Just visit our Contact page and click on Donna Obermeyers email address to subscribe. You can unsubscribe by sending an email to the same address. Let the People Decide about Charter Schools Sign Referendum 55 to Allow a Vote in November The WSSEC is a member of the Protect Our Public Schools Coalition, along with the The League of Women Voters of Washington, the Washington Federation of Teachers, the Washington State Democratic Party, Washington Education Association, Operating Engineers Local 609, the Washington Chapter of the American Association of University Women, and others. We know that you have heard a personal plea from Christie Perkins, our

2. UJA Bergen: Special Needs: Agencies to individuals who are developmentally disabled and schools under Jewish auspices serving families and individuals with special needs in of special needs. washington Township. Tel http://www.jewishbergen.org/people/specialneeds/agencies.shtml

Special Needs: Agencies Jewish-Association for Developmental Disabilities* (J-ADD) 190 Moore Street, Suite 410 Hackensack, NJ 07601 Tel.: (201) 457-0058 Fax: (201) 457-0025 E-mail: UJAADD@aol.com Website: www.j-add.com Exec. Dir.: Errol Seltzer Jewish-Association for Developmental Disabilities (J-ADD) is a non-profit agency that has taken the lead in providing services to individuals who are developmentally disabled Jewish Council for Special Needs* River Edge Tel.: (201) 488-6800, ext. 364 Contact: Alan P. Sweifach The Council is a consortium of agencies and schools under Jewish auspices serving families and individuals with special needs in Bergen County. Bergen County YJCC* Dept. of Special Needs Washington Township Tel.: (201) 666-6610 Dir.: Dr. Jeff Pollack The Bergen County Y provides Camp Sholom in the afternoons during the summer months, plus a mini-Camp Sholom and other events for families during the year. Vacation programs are also offered. JCC on the Palisades* Special Services Tenafly Tel.: (201) 569-7900, ext. 302

3. NICHCY: Parenting A Child With Special Needs - Resources care of the disabled child. Baltimore, MD special needs A book for sibs (2nd ed.). Seattle University of washington Press practical guide for schools, families, and organizations http://www.kidsource.com/NICHCY/parenting.disab.all.4.6.html

Parenting A Child With Special Needs: A Guide To Readings And Resources Resources advertisement Credits Source National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities Contents You Are Not Alone The Unplanned Journey Supporting And Empowering The Family Working With Professionals ... References Resources Organizations List Of Publishers and Journals Forums Learning and Other Disabilities Related Articles Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of Children With Disabilities Educating Exceptional Children The publications and organizations listed below, as well as the resources listed throughout this News Digest, are only a few of the many that can provide information to parents and families about issues related to disability. Additional support is also available from state and local parent groups, as well as from state and local affiliates of many major disability organizations. Obtaining Resources That Interest You To help you obtain documents listed in this issue, you will find the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of publishers at the end of this publication. The publisher's name generally appears in the final position in the citation to illustrate, in the example citation below, the publisher is Woodbine House. Example: Sweeney, W. (in press). The special-needs reading list: An annotated guide to the best publications for parents and professionals. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House.

4. COPAA NewsWatch: Schools Say They're Pushed, Pulled By Washington above its average for nonspecial-needs children of other children who are not disabled, said Dolorita South Kitsap schools in western washington state, which http://www.copaa.net/newstand/schoolfund.html

N EWS A RTICLES OF S PECIAL I NTEREST F ROM A ROUND T HE C OUNTRY March 18, 1999 Schools say they're pushed, pulled by Washington By ANJETTA McQUEEN AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The school district in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had already overspent its special education budget by $1 million when the Supreme Court ruled it had to pay for one-on-one nursing for a student adding $30,000 a year. Garret Frey, the 16-year-old sophomore on a ventilator because of an accident that left him paralyzed, isn't the issue, said Superintendent Lew Finch. The case is really about the federal government creating rules requiring schools to educate children with disabilities, but not sending enough money to ensure they can afford it. If schools don't get more help, they may need to raise local taxes, Finch said. "This might be the case that opens a lot of eyes." Special education is one of the most emotional issues schools face, and one of their fastest-growing costs. States have long fought with local schools and the Education Department over costs. Now Republicans and Democrats in Congress are debating how much the federal government should help. Nearly 6 million children receive special education instruction and services costing $60 billion, about $5 billion of that from the federal government. About $55 billion comes from states and local districts, which follow strict rules stemming from the 1975 federal law covering special education.

5. Philadelphia Inquirer 11/23/2003 Schools Lagging In Special special needs, says the law is living up to its name and putting pressure on schools to on Education Policy in washington. " Now, there's They're legally disabled, and they need http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/7330738.htm

6. Education Options, Chapter 10 - SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN The Independent School Guide to washington, DC and private schools with programs for children with special needs. school programs for the learning disabled are http://www.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/rsrcs/pubs/7223.htm

[Print Friendly Version] Education Options, Chapter 10 - SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN A child with special needs can be defined as one who differs developmentally from a normal child as a result either of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap, a developmental delay, or a specific learning disability. Both the Handicapped Child and Supplementary Education allowances are available to assist families with the extraordinary costs of providing special educational or related services to their children with special needs. Parents should understand the medical clearance procedures that determine eligibility for the allowances and know which will play a role in the assignment process. Learning disabilities are the most frequently encountered developmental problem among Foreign Service children. EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS Children with developmental problems will receive educational evaluations as part of the medical clearance process. As soon as it is suspected, parents should describe any developmental problem on the child's medical history form so that evaluation and treatment plans can be formulated early in the child's life. Experts in the field of special education stress the value of early intervention. Children with learning disabilities should not be thought of as abnormal; they simply have a different system for processing information. The key for parents and teachers is to discover what the child's processing system is and to help the child compensate with their strengths when fitting in, as far as possible, to the ordinary educational process.

7. WASHINGTONIAN/Special-Needs Private Schools A few others locally have a specialneeds component in Lab School of washington, 4759 Reservoir Rd., NW 20007 and night school for learning-disabled adults also 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

8. KinderStart - Child Development : Special Needs Child schools/Organizations. schools disabled and special special health and developmental needs. The project is based at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, washington 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.

9. Syndromes Links - Index - Conditions Affecting Children ... Project HappyChild difficulties, LD OnLine washington DC inter needs - Inventions helping disabled children, See special needs - residential, Camphill - Rudolf Steiner schools. http://www.happychild.org.uk/syndromes/

English deutsch italiano norsk ... Project HappyChild has 14 areas click any area to access Area 8 SYNDROMES LINKS where to find help for kids This area of the Project HappyChild website is designed to enable you to find help for various conditions which children may experience, or to give information about areas in which help is available in one way or another. If the organization is within the Project HappyChild Directory, the link will take you to the page where it is listed (there is a full Index to the Directory for easy reference across all organizations and a copy of the Directory can be printed free from screen - see Directory cover page If by any chance you can't locate the resource you're looking for, take a look at the Contact a Family on-line directory of specific conditions and rare disorders (see under Rare Syndromes below), or the other global resources listed for rare conditions, or try going to Yahoo, select advanced search, then "exact phrase", and key in any relevant words (eg respite care children disabilities saskatchewan] which should bring up a list of links specifically relevant to your search. Please also see our booklists page for specific resources available (some free, some not).

10. Reforms Crucial To Special Education If washington opts out of IDEA, it should be that public schools remain receptive to disabled youngsters, they allow each parent of a special needs student to http://www.cato.org/current/school-choice/pubs/gryphon-020614.html

@import "/styles/ns4_toxins.css"; Advanced Search Help Exit: Iraq Reforming Social Security ... More Topics Click here to learn more about supporting the Cato Institute. Pocket Constitution Email Updates Cato Audio Cato Store ... El Cato Reforms Crucial to Special Education by Marie Gryphon June 14, 2002 Marie Gryphon is a policy analyst with the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom. The Washington Education Association recently released a survey revealing that two-thirds of the state's special education teachers plan to quit over the next five years. Teachers of special needs children cited excessive paperwork and too many meetings as leading reasons for their decision to hit the road, exacerbating a serious existing shortage of qualified personnel. Predictably, the WEA used these results to call for two favorite union remedies, higher pay and smaller class sizes. Union President Charles Hasse said the survey confirms "a compensation and workload crisis among special ed staff." In fact, Washington's teachers and students would benefit most from a rarer prescription - fundamental reform. Washington is held hostage to a federal statute that governs nearly every aspect of special education. Passed in 1975, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) mandates a complex series of meetings, paperwork, notice requirements and legalistic due process procedures for developing each disabled child's educational plan. While IDEA played a positive role in opening the doors of public schools to disabled children, the statute is a disaster when it comes to the thing parents need most: peaceful, efficient provision of high-quality educational services.

11. Salinas Valley Chamber Of Commerce - Personal Relocation: Schools washington Middle School, 4244442. PROGRAMS FOR INFANTS WITH special needs PROGRAMS FOR THE COMMUNICATIVELY disabled (HEARING IMPAIRED) Toro School, 484-9897. http://www.salinaschamber.com/community/schools.html

COMMUNITY PROFILE PERSONAL RELOCATION Real Estate Population Schools Youth Activities Employers Climate Churches ... Media BUSINESS RELOCATION Agriculture Industry Commercial Real Estate Tourism Government ... Education Keyword Search: Schools Separate listing available for Colleges, Universities, Business and Vocational Schools ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Alisal Union School District 1205 E Market, Salinas, CA 93905 Grades K-6 Alisal Community School 1437 Del Monte Ave, Salinas, CA 93905 Bardin School 425 Bardin Rd, Salinas, CA 93905 Cesar E Chavez School 1225 Towt St, Salinas, CA 93905 Creekside Elementary School 1770 Kittery St, Salinas, CA 93906 Frank Paul School 1300 Rider Ave, Salinas, CA 93905 Fremont School 1255 E Market, Salinas, CA 93905 Jesse G Sanchez School 901 N Sanborn Rd, Salinas, CA 93905 John E Steinbeck School 1714 Burlington Dr, Salinas, CA 93906 Virginia Rocca Barton School (Year round) 680 Las Casitas, Salinas, CA 93905 GRAVES SCHOOL DISTRICT Highway 183 at McFadden Rd, Salinas, CA 93902 Grades K-8 *The above district and school are at same location LAGUNITA SCHOOL DISTRICT 975 San Juan Grade Rd, Salinas, CA 93906

12. The Heartland Institute - Florida Expands Vouchers To Disabled - By George A. Cl The servicing of specialneeds students at private schools had the Institute for Justice, a washington, DC-based least 1,347 in programs for disabled students. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10957

13. 9/5/01 -- A Bad IDEA Is Disabling Public Schools -- Education Week when education policy is dictated from washington. in the percentage of specialneeds students excused have their children labeled learning-disabled in order http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=01bolick.h21

14. NAESP : Schools Struggle With Special Ed properly sterilize a catheter for one disabled student have a lot of rights, says washington principal John I just believe that when special needs kids rights http://www.naesp.org/ContentLoad.do?contentId=90

15. Early Childhood Focus - News Topic: Special Needs special needs washington State Gov. Superintendent of schools Office for children with special needs from birth more say in care of a disabled child Submitted http://www.earlychildhoodfocus.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=16&p=3

16. Children With Special Needs In Washington D.C. --assessments, Advocacy, LD Evalu for Children s with special needs in washington, DC. more effective advocate for children with special needs. ASSOCIATES Helps All Parents of disabled Children. http://www.iser.com/ace2000-DC.html

Internet Special Education Resources Path to a free appropriate publicly supported education in Washington, D.C. 1220 L. Street NW. Suite 750 Washington, DC 20005 Tel:202-742-2046 email: A1Diamante@aol.com Advocacy for Children's with Special Needs in Washington, D.C. Parents Teachers Psychologists Social workers Attorneys Educational Advocates Human Service Professionals Concerned Citizens And we all share common aims: To protect the lawful education rights of disabled children and their parents. To foster the fair and just implementation of all laws regarding the rights of disabled children. To promote better understanding and cooperation among parents of disabled children, the special education community, and the public school system. AN EFFECTIVE NETWORK PROVIDING ADVOCACY SUPPORT AND SERVICES. Legal consultation and assistance can be expensive, sometimes as much as $600 an hour. Not all parents can afford such feesyet all parents want to ensure their child's educational needs are met. We can help you with: Classroom program and placement concerns.

17. COPAA NewsWatch: Technology Meets Some Special Needs Technology Meets Some special needs. Devices, Software Help disabled Students Overcome Obstacles to Learning. February 9 1997; Page B01 The washington Post http://www.copaa.net/newstand/atsped97.html

N EWS A RTICLES OF S PECIAL I NTEREST F ROM A ROUND T HE C OUNTRY Technology Meets Some Special Needs Devices, Software Help Disabled Students Overcome Obstacles to Learning By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 9 1997; Page B01 The Washington Post 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."

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

19. Unit Studies, Special Needs, And Teens Page Unit Studies; special needs; Teens; Links; Wolfgang Mozart, Mark Twain, George washington computer resources for disabled children. Curriculum Associates toys for special needs children . http://www.eaglesnesthome.com/unit.htm

Wise Stewards Home Eagle's Nest Home Homeschool Writers Group Health ... Guidelines A Wise Steward's Homeschool Unit Studies, Special Needs, Homeschooling Teens, College and Distance Education Table of Contents (click any topic to view) What Is a Unit Study? Pick a Topic, Any Topic! Pick an Interest, Any Interest How Do You and Your Children Learn Best? Special Needs: Unit Studies, Special Needs and Labeled Children Homeschooling Teens, High School, College and Distance Education Links for Special Needs, Giftedness, Unit Studies What Is a Unit Study? Pick a Topic, Any Topic! Homeschoolers, like all educators, often fall into the easy trap of spouting educational jargon until it becomes almost meaningless, especially to newcomers. We forget, perhaps, that everyone was once a newcomer. The term "unit studies" is an especially slippery fish of a term, because it can mean so many things. It may refer to a relaxed, interest led frolic through a subject, initiated by a child's interest in, for instance, cars. The child reads about cars, draws cars, examines the insides of cars, takes cars apart, measures cars, studies the math and science of cars, bakes and eats car shaped cakes, and builds a model car. The opposite extreme may be the child homeschooled with a traditional approach. His parents pick a unit study out of a book, or perhaps buy a unit study curriculum. The publisher supplies or suggests the materials, and the parent (as teacher) sits with the child, going progressively through the planned unit study. Most often, homeschool families fall somewhere in between these two examples.

20. Education Options For Foreign Service Family Members and Testing Records, The special needs Child Overseas Establishing Parent Support Groups, washington Area Programs College and the Learningdisabled, Taking the http://www.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/rsrcs/pubs/7232.htm

[Print Friendly Version] Education Options for Foreign Service Family Members Foreign Service life is an education. Education Options for Foreign Service Family Members , first published in February 1996, is dedicated to assist Foreign Service family members in obtaining the best education possible to supplement their Foreign Service experience. While the emphasis is on schools and school-age children, this book looks at Foreign Service family members of all ages. There is information on the day care needs of Foreign Service babies and early childhood education for preschoolers. At the other end of the spectrum, it looks at adult education options for Foreign Service spouses and young adult family members who are not in college. It is organized in general chronological order with the information on related topics interspersed throughout age level material. This book is designed for those people who want information on a specific topic as well as for those people who want to use it as a planning tool to look at the total picture of education for Foreign Service families. Chapters are below. Preface Introduction Chapter 1 - Educational Resources Resources Within the Department of State, Resources Overseas.

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