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Extractions: Please contact the schools for updated information. A C D F ... W A Spring Ridge Academy (Arizona) Spring Valley, AZ : boarding school for girls with attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, low self esteem or other challenges. 13690 South Burton Road, Spring Valley, AZ 86333 - (520) 632-4602
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Extractions: Resource Center Visit us frequently to keep up with new sites and information! If you know of an appropriate link that should be added to our list or have a problem getting connected to one of the following links, please E-mail the Webmaster Advocates Across America Provides excellent resources for parents and others interested in advocating for the educational rights of children with special needs. Special needs includes ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, severe health conditions or any physical, mental or emotional disabilities.
Extractions: Bilingual/ESL Learning Disabilities Teachers and Diagnosticians Scope of Program Interface 2000 Director For More Information The 1999 statistics from the Arizona Department of Education indicate that about 33% or 45,232 students served in the learning disability category are of Hispanic background and 8% are Native-American. Project Interface 2000 is a federal grant supporting teachers for this group of students. The purpose of Project Interface 2000 is to recruit and train 25-30 educators to serve Hispanic and Native-American students with special learning needs. Personnel trained in Project Interface 2000 will be able to assume the role of educational diagnostician and/or teacher of LEP/bilingual students with disabilities in a variety of educational settings. This competency based program of study will be provided through an interdisciplinary collaborative effort between the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology, the Department of Language, Reading and Culture, the Department of Teaching and Teacher Education, and the Department of English. The project provides students with: a high quality pre-service program with course work in special education, learning disabilities, bilingual education, and English as a second language that reflects the use of current research-based assessment and intervention practices.
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Issues & Views: Lies About School Choice will be insufficient help for students with special needs. sent disruptive or learningdisabled children that In Wisconsin, arizona, Minnesota and other states http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/1003/article/1042
Extractions: (Also enter "Subscribe" to receive free Biweekly Updates) Most education special interests, like the National Education Association (NEA), do not have the interests of children first and foremost in mind. Their leaders scorn any plan to expand the choices of parents beyond the school to which their children are assigned. Despite enormous growth and power in the 1980s among anti-choice education leaders and lawmakers, those groups that continue to oppose this popular tide of school reform, are finding it more and more difficult to win. With growing support for and participation in choice programs, it is hardly surprising that the opponents of reform have accelerated their attacks on educational choice. The criticisms against choice constitute nine broad categories. Here are rebuttals to three major ones. Lie #1: Choice will leave the poor behind in the worst schools.
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Extractions: English Language Education for Children in Public Schools Summary: Requires that all public school instruction be conducted in English. Children not fluent in English shall normally be placed in an intensive one-year English immersion program to teach them the language as quickly as possible while also learning academic subjects. Parents may request a waiver of these requirements for children who already know English, are ten years or older, or have special needs best suited to a different educational approach. Normal foreign language programs are completely unaffected. Enforcement lawsuits by parents and guardians are permitted. Text: Findings and Declarations The English language is the national public language of the United States of America and of the state of Arizona. It is spoken by the vast majority of Arizona residents, and is also the leading world language for science, technology, and international business, thereby being the language of economic opportunity; and Immigrant parents are eager to have their children acquire a good knowledge of English, thereby allowing them to fully participate in the American Dream of economic and social advancement; and The public schools of Arizona currently do an inadequate job of educating immigrant children, wasting financial resources on costly experimental language programs whose failure over the past two decades is demonstrated by the current high drop-out rates and low English literacy levels of many immigrant children.
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Journal Of American Indian Education-Arizona State University programs on 17 reservations in arizona, Idaho, Mississippi students are inappropriatelyclassified as learning disabled (LD LD and are placed in special education http://jaie.asu.edu/v29/V29S1thi.htm
Extractions: October 1989 THIRTEEN MOST COMMON NEEDS OF AMERICAN EDUCATION IN BIA SCHOOLS Glenn I. Latham The milieu of Indian education remains the object of inquiry by educators, historians, social scientists, and the Federal Government, to name a few (Szasz, 1983; Latham, 1985). Facilities, curriculum, training, recruit retention, TABLE 2 Subjects Number of Interviews Administrators Superintendents Principals (including assistants) Teachers Support Staff Psychologists and Counselors Teacher Aides Students (fifth grade and above) Parents TOTAL From these observations and interviews, 13 persisting instructional and management needs emerged. Following is a detailed discussion of each of the 13 needs. Findings 1. The need to increase the academic engagement of students. In total, the data suggest that less than one half of a students day is spent on instructional tasks. Add to this the time lost to non-attention during instruction, one can conclude that during an entire school year, students in BIA Education programs are academically engaged only about one-third of the time intended for instruction. (See Figure 1). 2. The need to appropriately challenge students relative to academic performance and behavioral compliance.
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Therapy/Respite Camps: Kids With Autism And Other Special Needs A page with information about summer camps for kids with special needs focus on therapy for kids with special needs and/or respite for the kids and Atlantic Coast special Educational Services provides full time, summer respite residential services http://www.wmoore.net/therapy.html
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! I also have some links to other potentially useful pages 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. Camp Hemlocks , in Hebron, is a rustic, barrier-free, year-round camping facility which provides recreational, educational and social programs for children and adults with disabilities and their families.
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Extractions: A Lisa Graham Keegan s the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education continues its critical task of examining IDEA and other special education policies, there are some who will try to convince the commission that it will do irreparable harm to IDEA if it recommends any changes to the program other than increased funding. Still others will likely argue that any changes to IDEA would be an affront to the ideals embodied in the Act, and that anyone who advocates reforming the program lacks a commitment to disabled children. Nonsense - and any of us who have had to live and work within the program know better than that. We know that what matters most in special education are three underlying principles that have been at the heart of the IDEA program since its inception: access to education, ensuring that special education students make academic progress, and holding the system accountable for each of these services. Funding is an inherent part of each of these principles, to be sure, but we do a great disservice to special education and special education students if we base policy solely on the issue of funding.
