JOURNAL OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT - Summer 1996 to discontinue the segregation of disabled students from Burlington, VT Universityof vermont, Center for Beyond special education Toward a system for all http://www.nsdc.org/library/jsd/jsdmalar.html
Extractions: Journal of Staff Development , Summer 1996 (Vol. 17, No. 3) To create inclusive schools, all staff members will have to change the way they view the world of education, including changing paradigms of teaching and learning, teacher support, and staff development practices. "When you see the social aspects at this level, I can't imagine going back to self-contained classes." Janet Healey, Principal School districts are changing their views about educating children with disabilities. Instead of isolated classes, schools are moving toward more inclusive classes for all children. This movement toward "inclusive" classrooms has stirred much debate and polarization in special education. Some parents think that "inclusion is the best thing that has happened for my child"; others call it "an inadequate answer" to solving problems in education. Further, some educators, although sympathetic to many of the problems that disabled students face, are not embracing inclusion as the answer. To adequately address the issues surrounding the inclusive schools movement, let's consider the meaning of inclusion, features of successful inclusive schools, and the professional development that is required to create these schools.
Searchalot Directory For Support An organization of parents in vermont offering support A message board for parentsof special education students and Referral Source for K12 disabled Children. http://www.searchalot.com/Top/Reference/Education/SpecialEducation/Support/
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EmTech - Special Education Manufacturing Wheelchair Lifts Designed For disabled Drivers; LAB Division of Toysfor special Children; Turnsoft Adaptive Ski and Sports; vermont CATS (Computer http://www.emtech.net/sped.htm
Extractions: Inclusion Links ... Access Unlimited - Adaptive Transportation And Mobility Technology Access Utah Network Access-Able Travel Source Access information for disabled travelers Access-Able's Newsletters Page Accessibility in Nevada Accessible Vans of America Accessibility Design Resources ... Accessible San Diego for Travelers with Disabilities Accessible Traveler's Database Accessible Web Page Design Resources Ai Squared - ZoomText screen magnification software All Terrain Wheelchairs A Hybrid Adaptive Mobility System All Things Web: Accommodating Imperfection All Things Web: Could Helen Keller Read Your Page? Alternative Care Providers - Home Medical Equipment and Supplies Alternative Health/Medicine/Therapies Altra MicroPoint - computer pointing device and mouse alternatives Alphabet Signs - ADA signage Altra MicroPoint - computer pointing device and mouse alternatives Anitavee's Adaptive Apparel Apex Dynamics Applied Digital, Inc. Applied Future Technologies, Inc. ... Assistive Media - audio-literary service for persons with print reading/access barriers Assistive Technology for People with Spinal Cord Injuries Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP) AssistTech Inc - innovative toys for special needs kids Associated Handicapable Vans Attention Control Systems - planning and execution software for assisting brain injured people gain independence Audiobooks Online - Ear Friendly Books
Extractions: From the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) preserveIDEA@dredf.org IDEA Rapid Response Network (RRN) News Briefing April 29, 2002 GREAT RESPONSE: DREDF's RRN Staff was overwhelmed and overjoyed by the response to our first announcement earlier this month launching the RRN. Almost 1,000 individuals (primarily parents and child advocates) from across the country sent back emails saying they wanted to be involved in and receive information from the RRN. It is very encouraging that so many of you responded and that the base for building the Network is already well established. If you did not receive the first announcement or want to respond to it go to preserveIDEA@dredf.org RRN PURPOSE: The purpose of the Network is to build a group of parents and supporters nationwide who can be called on to respond to proposed amendments or concepts for changes to IDEA that might weaken, eliminate or in any way compromise the civil rights of children with disabilities during the upcoming Congressional reauthorization process and, when necessary, call on parents in specific states to respond to the positions of their members of Congress; to educate and inform parents about proposals to amend IDEA. The
Senator Jim Jeffords that children with disabilities receive the special education and public educationto our disabled children dropout must also better address the needs of our http://jeffords.senate.gov/issue_special_education.html
Extractions: March 21, 2002 When I first arrived in Congress in 1975, one of the first legislative initiatives I worked on was the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, now known as IDEA. We wrote the legislation to ensure that children with disabilities receive the special education and related services they need and that the Constitution requires. Twenty-seven years ago, nearly half of all disabled children, approximately 2 million children, were not receiving a public education. Another 2 million children were placed in segregated, inadequate classrooms.
Jewish Law - Commentary/Opinion - Dropout Prevention: An IDEA New York, Connecticut and vermont the three all school children are learning disabled and many never receive appropriate special education services. http://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/dropout.html
Extractions: In the Spring of 1991, Paul and Patricia Russman arrived at an important decision. Their daughter Colleen, then 10 years old, had been diagnosed five years earlier as requiring special education services and had been placed in a school for the handicapped operated by their local school district in upstate New York. Now, however, with Colleen having demonstrated promising educational progress, the Russmans decided that the time had come to have her "mainstreamed" into a regular classroom setting. The school district's Committee on Special Education agreed. The Committee, authorized by law to develop an "Individualized Educational Program" for educationally handicapped children, devised an IEP to give Colleen the assistance she would need to succeed in a regular classroom: a consultant teacher to work with the regular teacher in adapting the classroom curriculum, a teaching aide to assist Colleen directly with her studies, and a program of speech and occupational therapy. These services would be provided, free of charge to the Russmans, at the local public school. But the Russmans were not interested in the local public school. They wanted to enroll Colleen in the school her two sisters attended: St. Brigid's Regional Catholic School. The school district countered that it had no legal obligation to provide special education services on the premises of a religious school indeed, that to do so would be an impermissible breach of the constitutional wall separating "church and state".
The Heartland Institute may be unconstitutional; cases in vermont and Maine job with children with specialneeds, partly because classifying children as learningdisabled means more http://www.schoolreformers.com/faqs/choice.html
Special Education Inclusion Information and resources concerning inclusion.Category Reference Education special Education Inclusion T. Stafford, the Republican Senator from vermont and one in selfconcept of non-disabledstudents (Peck et. between the regular and special education systems http://www.weac.org/resource/june96/speced.htm
Extractions: This article was updated November 5, 2001 Inclusion remains a controversial concept in education because it relates to educational and social values, as well as to our sense of individual worth. Any discussion about inclusion should address several important questions: There are advocates on both sides of the issue. James Kauffman of the University of Virginia views inclusion as a policy driven by an unrealistic expectation that money will be saved. Furthermore, he argues that trying to force all students into the inclusion mold is just as coercive and discriminatory as trying to force all students into the mold of a special education class or residential institution. At the other end of the spectrum are those who believe that all students belong in the regular education classroom, and that "good" teachers are those who can meet the needs of all the students, regardless of what those needs may be.
Child Research Net - Cybrary - Brown University Newsletter Teachers, administrators and special educators met regularly to talk about students Vermontschools were already providing for learningdisabled students in http://www.childresearch.net/CYBRARY/NEWS/9802.HTM
Extractions: As a special educator, I have had the opportunity to meet many unique individuals with more similarities than differences. However, most of the students I have worked with have been diagnosed with a variety of "disabilities." I say most of the students, because I have made a strong attempt over the years to help bridge the gap between special education and regular education. I have done so in a variety of ways and for several reasons.
Kansans For IDEA Compliance - National a facility for profoundly disabled children that of putting together an affiliateVermont organization by Ruling on special education standards cheers parents http://www.ideacompliance.org/national.html
Extractions: National click here to find parent advocacy organizations in your state Share your story with us! E-mail KIC today at advocates@ideacompliance.org Subject Message Vermont Organizations such as yours should be a model for each state. At least from my experience, independent advocacy groups can and will accomplish more on a local and state level than national organizations or organizations formed through state and federal grant mechanisms. National organizations such as COPAA will be strengthened through well organized and well informed independent state organizations. Kansas is a particularly tough state on disabled children; especially children with autism. Having been involved in a case there for almost a year, I read with interest your editorials and other comments regarding the due process hearing system in your state. Kansas, though, is not unique. Florida is equally insidious. States such as these perpetrate discrimination simply by maintaining the status quo through the sloggy due process systems. That is, Hearing Officers, Judges, and yes - school district defense firms - collectively maintain a system that "keeps those children in their proper place in society." The courts and the administrative Hearing Officers maintain the status quo through judicial and quasi judicial passivity. Perhaps the most effective form of judicial passivity is the circumvention of their responsibilities by the courts' near sighted reliance on their own doctricanal boundaries and categories(precedent, stare decisis, etc) to resolve cases.
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General Disability/Inclusion Websites The UAP of vermont, in collaboration with individuals with of Education's Office ofSpecial Education and and independent living of disabled individuals of all http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fourh/sacc/inclusion/incgeneral.html
Extractions: A statewide technical assistance project with offices in the western, central, and eastern regions of North Carolina. Administratively housed at the Frank Porter Graham Child,Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill, PFI provides technical assistance to support the inclusion of young children with disabilities, ages birth through five, in all aspects of community life.
Untitled in inclusion rates, with 83% of disabled children being have restructured to integratespecial education and be implemented with integrity in vermont and other http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/rptcard/1996/drc605.html
Inclusion & Parent Advocacy: A Resource Guide - Complete Title List and Community Life VISTA vermont Interdependent Services Who Love Someone LabeledDisabled (Possibly Yourself Care You, Your Child and special Education A http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMincl-titles.html
Extractions: Home Subjects States Librarians ... Contact Us Complete Title List Updated 3/9/2000 Welcome Introduction Legal Rights Inclusion Terminology ... Complete Title List The following is an alphabetical list of titles described in Inclusion and Parent Advocacy: A Resource Guide (c) 1996 Disability Resources, inc. - All Rights Reserved. A ABCs of Inclusive Child Care Achieving Inclusion Through the IEP Process: A Workbook for Parents Action for Inclusion: How to Improve Schools by Welcoming Children With Special Needs into Regular Classrooms ADA Mandate for Social Change, The Adapting Early Childhood Curricula for Children in Inclusive Settings Adapting Instruction for Mainstreamed and At-Risk Students ADHD: Inclusive Instruction and Collaborative Practices Advocacy for Deaf Children Advocacy Skills Training Program Advocate's Guide to the Media, An Alike and Different: Exploring our Humanity With Young Children All Kids Count: Child Care and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) All of Us Together: The Story of Inclusion at the Kinzie School "Aqui Se Habla Espanol": Designing and Implementing an Inclusive Foreign Language Program
