Extractions: Option for New England Schools By the New England Comprehensive Assistance Center A "schoolwide" Title I program allows schools the flexibility to combine Title I of the federal Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) funds with other federal, state and local funds to raise the academic achievement of all the students in the school, rather than focusing on certain students targeted for Title I programs and assistance. In a schoolwide program, the Title I funds are used for a schoolwide reform strategy that increases the amount and quality of learning time and provides an enriched and accelerated curriculum for all children in the school. Schools that choose the schoolwide program option must prepare a plan that will enable all students to reach high standards of achievement. All children must meet the state's content and performance standards.
Bibliography Of Resources For Parents Of Disabled Children from Braille Institute, 741 North vermont Avenue, Los New law to impact servicesto disabled infants, toddlers organized to serve the special needs of young http://www.rit.edu/~easi/pubs/ezbib3.htm
Extractions: December 1991 92-1 May 1992 Parents of preschool children with visual or physical disabilities will find in this reference circular a wide range of information to assist them in promoting the development of their child from infancy to age five. The listing includes organizations, producers, and distributors who offer materials or services at the national level. These organizations may be contacted directly for information about local services and distributors. The books included in Section III were in print at the time this circular was compiled and should be available from local bookstores or directly from the publishers. Materials listed may also be available on loan from local public libraries. CONTENTS I. Special-format Materials: Braille, Cassettes, Large Print, and Records
Learning Disabilities OnLine: Finding Help - LD Schools Greenwood School (vermont) Putney, VT boarding school for software for the learningdisabled community successfully include children with special needs into the http://www.ldonline.org/finding_help/ld_schools/
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
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING attention learning differences, special education advocacy Home Schooling forthe Learning disabled Student. Family.Com Kids VT Guide to vermont schools. http://www.vermontplace.com/alternativeschooling.htm
Extractions: ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING HOME SCHOOLING Bright Word Creations The Greenwood Institute Home Schooling for the Learning Disabled Student The Greenwood Institute is offering a professional support program for parents and adult tutors who are teaching children with learning disabilities. Homeschooling Central Home-School.Com Home School - Find-It Home Education Magazine INTERNET DISTANCE LEARNING Vermont - Oak Meadow School CLASS -Communication Learning and Assessment In a Student Centered System- High School on the Net. NATIONAL DIRECTORIES OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS NAPSEC - National Association of Private Special Education Schools NAPSEC Member Schools World Wide Web of Private Special Education Schools Places For Struggling Teens - Woodbury Reports Inc. ... Schools To Know Schools to Know" is an admissions, marketing and public relations service for a diverse group of small boarding schools in Canada and the United States Wediko Childrens' Services Wediko Children's Services is a non-profit agency with 60 years of experience dedicated to childrenwhose learning, social development and self-direction is lagging.If you know a child or have a child whose head is just above high water, please tour our site... Greenwood School Innovative Remedial Education for boys ages 9-15 with dyslexia and related language disorders ISANNE - Independent Schools of Northern New England ISANNE is a consortium of 55 independent schools located among the mountains, valleys and shorelands of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
Agencies, Organizations & Networks to the needs of poor, minority, and disabled children A special focus is childrenand youth (birth to age vermont Council of Teacher Educators email Works to http://www.ahs.state.vt.us/EarlyChildhood/network.htm
Extractions: "Working Together for Vermont's Young Children and Their Families" Vermont's unified system of comprehensive child and family development services brings together numerous agencies, organizations and networks operating throughout the state. For persons seeking to identify or contact various local, state, or national groups, this section provides a useful link. Federal Government National Organization VT State Government State Organizations ... VT Early Childhood Resource Directory Federal Government: Write members of Congress at: http://congress.nw.dc.us/cdf/elecmail.html VT State Government ~ Agencies: VT Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services
CSDC Archives The law reiterates that disabled children and their issue of parental choice in specialeducation is schools Development Corporation 1090 vermont Ave., Suite http://www.csdc.org/bulletin/archive/special/question.html
Extractions: Charter operators raised new issues about parental choice and the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) at the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) 1999 Charter Schools National Conference in Denver. While charter school operators questioned aspects of the law, ED attorneys said they plan further study on how the law may affect children attending charter schools. Charter operators in the conference session, ìSpecial Education: A Discussion of Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities,î noted a special education dilemma occurring in charter schools: What happens if parents enrolling their child in a charter school say they do not want their child to receive special education, when that child has received services at a previous school? The answer, according to ED attorneys, is that the child would be re-evaluated by a special education team, which may include administrators at the previous school, the special education teacher and the regular classroom teacher. If the team determines the child is still eligible to receive services, the charter school is required by law to provide services, even if the parent does not want them. Some charter operators said parents have insisted they did not want special education services for their child because they wanted their child to escape the stigma associated with a special education label. Nancy Deutsch, an attorney with the office of the general counsel at ED, said that in the event of the parent's refusal, when the school system determines the child is still eligible to receive services, the state has a responsibility to pursue the matter and has mechanisms to override the parent's refusal.
Extractions: Nationally, most students like Jeron are educated in separate classrooms or separate schools, as are those with mental retardation, autism or emotional disturbances, and many of those in the far larger group of children with less pervasive problems like dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities.
KinderStart - Child Development : Special Needs Child provide all children, with priority attention to disabled and special Rate this Site;special Educational needs special Educational needs, for the http://www.kinderstart.com/childdevelopment/specialneedschild/
Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities Page Frame-placeholder For Index.htm Includes worksheets, planners, links to organizations and tips on developing a program. Browse through the bookstore. . IBM special needs Systems. . Microsoft For Children (Free advocacy services to parents of special needs children) . Learning disabled and Gifted A Homeschool Perspective http://members.tripod.com/~Maaja
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Vermont Department Of Education ESL/ Bilingual Program In other vermont communities, refugees may be seen by local Evaluation of ESL studentsfor special education is of ESL students as learning disabled or impaired http://www.state.vt.us/educ/ESL/htm/Step2/health2.html
Extractions: Physical Health The formal interview provides an opportunity to ask the parent/guardian(s) if their child has any health or special needs that they wish to share or feel should be considered in developing an educational program. The decision to share a child's health history is totally up to the parent/guardian(s). School personnel should explicitly inform parents that they have no legal obligation to share any health information other than immunization records and certification by the doctor that they are eligible for school entry. Schools do not require details of health screenings. However, school health personnel are better able to serve children and make accommodations when parents share details about their children's health (e.g. chronic illnesses, physical needs). If parent/guardians(s) wish to disclose any physical, emotional or other medical problems or special needs, the interviewer(s) notes them on the screening form. Any health conditions are best addressed early on, since they sometimes affect the child's adjustment to school, assessment strategies and outcomes, and placement/programming decisions.
Extractions: Coordinating with Others No. 151 SUBJECT: Educational Issues for Children in Custody DATE: 10/27/99 INTERIM APPROVED: Frederick M. Ober, Division Director SUPERSEDES: Casework Procedure 4305, dated 9/1/87; 4310, dated 12/18/89 and 4315, dated 9/26/88 PURPOSE : To describe areas in which social workers regularly collaborate with school personnel to meet the needs of children in custody. INTRODUCTION: State and federal law (the Individuals with Disability Act (IDEA)) guarantee special education services for children with disabilities. The law requires that parents be involved in planning their childs special education program. IDEA requires that when a child is a ward of the state (i.e. in SRS custody) an educational surrogate parent be appointed to legally represent that child as the parent participant in the special education planning process. The Vermont Educational Surrogate Parent Program (VESPP) recruits, trains and appoints volunteer educational surrogate parents . Volunteers may be foster parents, group home staff, family or community members interested in assisting a student in need of advocacy in the special education process.
THE VERMONT EDUCATION REPORT - May 14, 2001 Vol. 1, No. 9 for children being shunted into special education programs has led at least one Vermonteducation expert such children as instructionally disabled instead of http://www.schoolreport.com/vbe/nlet/05_14_01.htm
Extractions: Published by Vermonters for Better Education VBE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to enlist parents and the public at large in achieving quality educational opportunities for all the children of Vermont by monitoring the state of education in Vermont; promoting the value of educational freedoms for all parents; and giving parents the evaluative tools with which to identify excellence. Libby Sternberg, executive director: MAILTO:LSternberg@aol.com STATE NEWS... JEFFORDS'S SPECIAL EDUCATION PLANS GET MIXED REVIEWS For years, U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords has been beating the drum for more federal spending on special education. This year, however, he got a bigger drum. As a liberal Republican in an evenly-split Senate, he could threaten to withhold support for Administration initiatives that would otherwise pass unless his special education funding comes through. The money spigot hasn't yet been turned on, but Jeffords's special education funding ideas are receiving more attention, some of it probably unwelcome, from both liberal and conservative pundits.
Extractions: Home Textbooks Books Music ... Product Support Joe P. Sutton, Ph.D. Educating mildly disabled students has not been a high priority item on the educational agendas of many private Christian schools. In fact, recent studies show that special education in Christian schools is almost nonexistent, where only between 8 and 16 percent of Christian schools nationwide operate formal programs (Carver, 1989; Sutton, in press). With the emphasis placed on disabled persons in the Scripture (Sutton, 1990) however, most Christian educators would probably agree that our schools must do more in providing for the needs of mildly disabled students through formal special education programs. Another reason why we should be more concerned about the needs of mildly disabled students is that we are finding more of these students cropping up in regular classrooms. Hallahan, McNergney, Sutton (1989) report that in today's schools it would not be uncommon to find two to four mainstreamed mildly disabled students in regular classrooms of 25 to 30 students. The concept of mainstreaming presumes that mildly disabled students have received some direct services for their disabilities from special educators in either resource or self-contained special education classrooms prior to being reintegrated into regular classrooms. Although the lack of special education programs precludes significant mainstreaming efforts in Christian schools at the present time, the potential for finding mildly disabled students in regular classrooms is still there. The only difference is that many mildly disabled students in Christian schools simply have not been formally identified as yet.
Stateline.org: Lobbying Season Opens For Special Education the full cost of educating learning disabled children even calling on Congress tofully fund special education issue was so important to vermont's US Senator http://www.stateline.org/story.do?storyId=225070
TRI Online! Disability Links - Parent Advcocacy/Special Education Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and vermont; Loving Your DisabledChild California (CPRC). special needs Parents Info Network - Maine. http://www.taconicresources.net/resources/pa-ed.shtml
Extractions: General Resources: Exceptional Parent Magazine TRI Online! Bookstore - Books About Self-Advocacy. The Parent Advocate News. The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. ... HipMag Online. Interactive web site for deaf children. Internet Resources for Special Children. For all the Special Kids of the World. The Family Village. Children with Disabilities. ... Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 1. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 2. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 3. The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. Section 504 Regulations. Neighborhood Legal Services: New York State Guidelines to Allow for the Transfer of Assistive Technology When a Student Moves from School Jurisdiction to Higher Education, Other Human Services Agency or Employment. Resources for Disabled and Special Needs Children. ... The Association for Special Kids. An organization that helps families with special needs children set up individual financial plans. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Parents' Guide to the Development of Preschool Children with Disabilities: Resources and Services.
Extractions: Links: Banyan Tree - Provides individualized instruction for average to bright students with learning and attention problems in grades 1-6. San Diego, CA. Belmore Special School - A specialist school Located in Balwyn, Victoria catering for the educational needs of students with special needs. Certificate in Work Education - Australia - A very good site to visit with useful links and information. The emphasis is on the state of Victoria in Australia and is created by a group of students with disabilities Delaware Valley Friends School - A Quaker day school Eagle Hill School - Serving children ages 5-16 with learning disabilities. Day and boarding programs available. Greenwich, CT. Eagle Hill School - Eagle Hill School is located in Hardwick Massachusetts. Preparing the bright learning disabled student for today and tomorrow. Frewen College: School for Dyslexics - A Leading UK school for young people with dyslexia Gap Academy - A small, alternative school for pre-teens and teens with learning disabilities; located in Toronto, Canada.
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GETTING YOUTH ON BOARD a teen or young adult with special needs who would s related services, call VermontParent Information who are elderly, blind, or disabled, currently enrolled http://www.partoparvt.org/99fvtfm.html
Extractions: GETTING YOUTH ON BOARD Families know how important it is to learn about laws and systems that provide services to our children with special needs. We also know the value of connecting with other families, but what happens when our children grow up and want to be their own advocates? There are not many places where teens and young adults can go to learn about systems, gain leadership skills, and support one another. This led Family Voices to create KASA (Kids As Self-Advocates). KASA is a "virtual organization" based in the office of Julie Keys, Family Voices staffer in Chicago. Julie and her young friends chat through e-mail and phone, represent youth at national events, and are planning to start a website, hold leadership trainings, sponsor a conference, and prepare one another for the adult world. If you are a teen or know of a teen or young adult with special needs who would like to be a part of this exciting movement, tell them to contact Julie Keys at: 312-642-2745 or email: FamilyVoices_JKeys@msn.com
