Esmerel's Collection Of Special Education Resources of children who are gifted or disabled. Stewart's special Education Links; specialEducational needs texas special Education Resource Center; Utah's Project for http://www.esmerel.org/misc/special.htm
Extractions: (Courtesy of Esmerel: Home of Unicorn Quest : The Kids' Typing Tutor Game for One or Two Hands ) Welcome to another part of Esmerel's Collection of Disability Resources. This page is dedicated to special education resources. This list is growing constantly. If you know of any other resources or have suggestions, please email Heather. Highlighted Sites The Rest of the Sites! Disabled Children: Suggestions and References Sources This is a reference page with links for teachers of special needs students and/or children. ISER: Internet Special Education Resources This site helps parents to find local special education professinals to help with the assessment of learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders, therapy, advocacy and a host of other special needs. Maddux Special Education Home Page The purpose of this home page is to provide students, practicing teachers, parents and others with information about special education and disabilities as well as links to other sites with related information. MiningCo's Special Education Site An excellent site from the Miningco. Contains articles, information and links.
Extractions: Site Index: A B C D ... Z Distance Learning Methods A to Z Home's Cool Correspondence Schools Correspondence schools typically provide a full curriculum based on grade level. You'll get all materials you need, and a teacher will make assignments, which your child will turn in, and the teacher will evaluate. The best are accredited and will perform an assessment to ascertain your child's placement in each subject. Alger Learning Center
Problems Can Overwhelm The Schools All disabled students, including those with SED, are to The state of texas allocatesabout a third. behaviors without the support of specialeducation resources http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/chronicle/health/special/chi
Extractions: It's your first year of teaching. Half your second-graders need emotional support, and a third have learning problems. The school has one counselor for 1,100 students, and the principal says there's no behavior plan. Use classroom management, you're told, to deal with everyday fighting, punching, biting, kicking and tantrums. You submit extensive paperwork in the fall to get students tested for special needs. Come January, the test administrator finally arrives on campus. Oldest children are tested first, and he never makes it to your second-graders.
12-15, Local: New Law Helps Protect Special Education Students a student and especially a disabled student in district and many other East Texasdistricts already class, Truan said, but those students have special needs. http://www.news-journal.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2002/12/15/1039930078.031
Extractions: By PATRINA A. BOSTIC Disabled school children in Texas have suffered unimaginable abuse by teachers who, in an attempt to discipline them, have done everything from lock them inside cages to dark unventilated closets, Texas legislators say. Frightened and confused children soiled their pants and injured themselves as they panicked, trying to escape the grim and lonely places, they say. "I didn't know this was happening. I don't think a lot of people know," said Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, author of Senate Bill 1196. The bill, passed during the last legislative session, requires the Texas Education Agency to develop rules related to training on the use of restraint and timeout for students with disabilities. "I was appalled, to say the least, to hear that these practices were being carried out in the name of school discipline. This is abusing authority." East Texas schools are complying with the new law, and districts are sending teams to participate in the Texas Behavior Support Initiative training, which must be completed by April 1. The training is provided through Region VII Education Service Center.
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Extractions: Our mission is to: enable families with special needs to share their experiences by subscribing to our newsletter , joining our eGroup forum, talking in our chat room and posting to our bulletin board ; offer information on a wide variety of family fun and special needs topics ; and facilitate access via rings and links to websites relevant to special needs families. Adoption Arts Crafts Babies Charities ... Work at home Other important Include Inclusion links:
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Extractions: Founded by parents who were concerned about the exclusion of their children with mental retardation from public schools. Also assists individuals with developmental disabilities of all ages and their families to realize all rights and opportunities for full participation as members of the community. The Assistive and Instructional Technology Lab - UT Austin
Extractions: Students' Work Including special-needs students in regular classrooms seems to improve student academic performance, data show by Peter Farley AMHERST The inclusive-style classroom may be denying elementary school special needs students the attention they require and the education they deserve, according to some local teachers. But an analysis of available data gives a different picture. Now only one question remains: which method of grouping is most effective in helping students, with and without disabilities, to achieve their expected goals? IDEA requires that disabled students be placed in a setting that constitutes the "least restrictive environment." In other words, the government calls for disabled students to be educated with those who are nondisabled, to the maximum extent appropriate. However, teachers such as Mary Donovan, a fourth-grade instructor at Crocker Farm Elementary School in Amherst, say the law is often misinterpreted. The "least restrictive environment" isn’t always the regular classroom for special needs students, Donovan said.
Vitae texas Association for Pupil Transportation (TAPT). Director of special Education. withleading the full integration of 150 developmentally disabled adults into http://www.whitebuffalopress.com/vitae.htm
Extractions: 210-614-1396 FAX Bachelor of Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. Major: Secondary Special Education-Mental Retardation. May, 1966. Minor: Sociology. Master of Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Graduate Fellow of the United States Office of Education (USOE). Thesis topic:The Mentally Retarded Offender. October, 1970. Doctor of Education-Special Education Administration, University of Northern Colorado. Greeley, Colorado. Dissertation Topic: Guilford's Structure of Intellect and the Social Intelligence of Juvenile Delinquents. August, 1975. Postdoctoral Study. Educational Technology. University of Northern Colorado. Greeley, Colorado. Distance Learning for Special Populations. November, 1991. Recepient of the Sure-Lok National Special Needs Transportation Award, 2002.
IDEA FULL FUNDING ACT OF 2000 RON PAUL OF texas. I have received compliments from a special education administratorin my in order to fulfill the federal command that disabled children be http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr050400idea.htm
Extractions: OF TEXAS [Page: E634] IDEA may also force local schools to deny children access to the education that best suits their unique needs in order to fulfill the federal command that disabled children be educated `in the least restrictive setting,' which in practice means mainstreaming. Many children may thrive in a mainstream classroom environment, however, some children may be mainstreamed solely because school officials believe it is required by federal law, even though the mainstream environment is not the most appropriate for that child. On May 10, 1994, Dr. Mary Wagner testified before the Education Committee that disabled children who are not placed in a mainstream classroom graduate from high school at a much higher rate than disabled children who are mainstreamed. Dr. Wagner quite properly accused Congress of sacrificing children to ideology. Increasing IDEA spending also provides incentives to over-identify children as learning disabled, thus unfairly stigmatizing many children and, in a vicious cycle, leading to more demands for increased federal spending on IDEA. Instead of increasing spending on a federal program that may actually damage the children it claims to help, Congress should return control over education to those who best know the child's needs: parents. In order to restore parental control to education, I have introduced the Family Education Freedom Act (H.R. 935), which provides parents with a $3,000 per child tax credit to pay for K-12 education expenses. My tax credit would be of greatest benefit to parents of children with learning disabilities because it would allow them to devote more of their resources to ensure their children get an education that meets the child's unique needs.
Extractions: OF TEXAS [Page: H8004] Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to explain why I must oppose H. Con. Res. 399, which celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). My opposition to H. Con. Res. 399 is based on the simple fact that there is a better way to achieve the laudable goal of educating children with disabilities than through an unconstitutional program and thrusts children, parents, and schools into an administrative quagmire. Under the IDEA law celebrated by this resolution, parents and schools often become advisories and important decisions regarding a child's future are made via litigation. I have received complaints from a special education administrator in my district that unscrupulous trial lawyers are manipulating the IDEA process to line their pockets at the expenses of local school districts. Of course, every dollar a local school district has to spend on litigation is a dollar the district cannot spend educating children. IDEA may also force local schools to deny children access to the education that best suits their unique needs in order to fulfill the federal command that disabled children be educated `in the least restrictive setting,' which in practice means mainstreaming. Many children may thrive in a mainstream classroom environment, however, some children may be mainstreamed solely because school officials believe it is required by federal law, even though the mainstream environment is not the most appropriate for that child.
Special Education and Development Class project at the University of texas. as information of interestto disabled children, their plus links to other special education resources http://www.k2nesoft.com/education/specialeducation.html
Extractions: If you find links that no longer work, please let us know AccessPoints - provides those interested in special education with assessment and materials on-line catalogs, announcements of new products and events, and a collaboration newsletter. Alaska Special Ed Page Assistive Communication Device Design - WingSpeak (TM) Assistive Technology Design at The University of Texas at Austin Child and Family Studies Program - enhancing the overall quality of life for children who are at risk for, or who experience, developmental disabilities, and their families. CLASS Plus IEP Program - computer program to generate Individual Education Plans (IEP) for Special Education with criterion referenced tests. Conductive Education Information - conductive education is a unique system of teaching and learning for children with motor disorders such as Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida. Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Research Project - University of Florida - Presentation of empirical evidence of the effectiveness of CR/PM use in schools. Deaf Resource Page - Sites related to deafness, American Sign Language, and Deaf culture. By Todd Simkin.
Texas Department Of Human Services: Provider Information benefits and service that enable disabled persons to represented in court by the TexasAttorney General Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, special Milk Program http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/providers/
Extractions: DHS Home Contact Us Search DHS Site Map ... Rate Analysis DHS contracts with a number of organizations to provide services to agency clients. The information contained in this section is designed for people who are under contract to provide services for DHS clients. top of page top of page Credentialing homepage Criminal History Program lets long-term care facilities and home health agencies licensed or regulated by DHS obtain a criminal history record on new unlicensed employees who provide direct resident care.
Texas Department Of Human Services: Services Provided Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, special Milk Program service through the LITEUPTexas program Application for Assistance Aged and disabled (Form 1200EZ http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/programs/
Extractions: DHS Home Contact Us Search DHS Site Map ... Forms The Texas Department of Human Services administers state and federal human services programs that are designed to benefit three major client groups: low-income families and children, victims of domestic violence, and people who are elderly or have disabilities. In administering its programs, DHS does not discriminate, directly or through contractual or other arrangements, on the grounds of race, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, political belief, or religion. Visit the State of Texas Assistance and Referral System (STARS) site to find a DHS office. You also can self-screen for potential eligibility for programs provided by the DHS and other Texas state agencies. The goal of the Family Violence Program is to promote self sufficiency, safety and long term independence from family violence for adult victims and their children by providing emergency, support and prevention services. If you worked in 2001 you may be eligible for the Earned Income Credit.
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