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CA - School, child care join to help special needs kids
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Tuesday, March 06 @ 12:41:25 EST by emohan
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Malinda Smith is a hugger. As the owner and executive director of ABC Child Care, she breaks her stride walking through the classrooms of the day care facility to greet her little clients with open arms.
Smith said the entire premise of her child care center is to create a feeling of inclusiveness, whether it's through teaching sign language, offering bilingual instruction, learning about the ethnic backgrounds of families or just overall participation of the students with one another.
That inclusive philosophy does not stop at the doors of the center at 40045 Village Road, which serves 600 children.
ABC Child Care is now partnering with Ysabel Barnett Elementary School ---- the first time the Temecula Valley Unified School District has partnered with a private business ---- to offer a "wrap-around" preschool program for special needs students. The two facilities are located next door to each other.
"This has been a passion of mine for a long time to offer a program like this," Smith said. "To partner with the Barnett school makes so much sense. We can offer a full day of preschool care for these children, and offer the parents new options in how their children are cared for."
Ysabel Barnett, which has an enrollment of 117 special needs students, offers three hours of daily instruction for students with disabilities. With the new partnership, ABC Child Care will offer an additional five hours of daily preschool programming. Enrollment is open and organizers hope to have classes starting in two weeks.
"This is a wonderful partnership between TVUSD and ABC Child Care Village because it offers parents additional care options outside of Barnett's preschool special day class," said Melanie Norton, spokeswoman for TVUSD. "Plus, it's a perfect fit for the school and the child care center considering their close proximity to one another."
About 40 students will be served in two inclusion program classes. The ultimate goal of the program is to provide children, with and without disabilities, with realistic life experiences that prepare them to live in the community, by making them aware of differences and similarities between themselves and their peers.
"As they play together, they develop a sense that everyone, regardless of ability or disability is a very important member of the preschool community," Smith said. "What an important long-term contribution to our society as these children become adult decision-makers in our communities."
Full text available at the Californian
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PA - New child care center to serve kids with special needs, illnesses
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, June 16 @ 11:27:20 EDT by emohan
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If your child has cerebral palsy, or is on a ventilator, or has a feeding tube, it can be almost impossible to find day care.
Instead, parents usually have a nurse from a home health agency come to their home.
Now, a center is opening in Manheim Township where children with health problems or disabilities can go during the day.
Helping Hand, opening next month in Manheim Township, will care for up to 45 children with autism, ventilators, feeding tubes and other challenges.
The Helping Hand Children’s Center will open in mid-July at 2159 Oregon Pike, in the site of a former Magic Years child care center.
It will be only the fourth such facility of its kind in the state, joining others in Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia area.
Licensed by the state, the center initially will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Based on demand, it eventually could be open around the clock and on weekends, for parents who work other shifts.
The for-profit center is being opened by two local residents, Michael Brenner and Patricia Rose. Brenner, a businessman from East Hempfield Township, and Rose, a registered nurse from Elizabethtown, own Elite Staffing Services, a central Pennsylvania home care company.
Both saw the need for such a facility here.
If an agency nurse has an emergency or is ill and can’t come to the child’s home, parents must scramble to find other care or stay home from work.
“This will have the trust of knowing staff is here every day to take care of the child,” Brenner says.
Also, children who are cared for in their homes often don’t get many opportunities to socialize or do activities with other kids, Rose says.
At Helping Hand, there will be games, art and music in rooms painted with cartoon characters and forest murals. The center plans to have Millersville University students studying special education help to provide development programs.
The center also has purchased adaptive computers, set up so that children can learn and progress on them at their own speed.
Full text available at Lancaster Online
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Kids, parents eager to try new braille book format
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Monday, March 06 @ 10:23:05 EST by emohan
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Reading children's books in braille used to be frustrating for Eric Ligon and his 8-year-old son. When Ethan read the braille, his hands would cover up the nearby printed words, making it hard for his father to offer help.
"It wasn't a very fluid process, reading that way," Ligon said.
So Ligon, a visual arts professor at the University of North Texas, decided to make it easier. He designed books with the original print and illustrations at the top of the page, and printed words on top of the braille at the bottom of the page.
His books could be a breakthrough for blind and sighted readers who want to enjoy books together, according to national experts. Ethan, a third-grader who has been blind since he was a baby, has deemed them "pretty cool."
Ligon's design could help parents and others who don't know braille, said Karen Wolffe, director of professional development for the American Foundation for the Blind.
"I think what Eric's got is ideal for very, very young readers," Wolffe said. "Those are the folks that are typically truly needing their parents to sit beside them and read."
Of the 1.3 million legally blind people in the United States, about 55,200 are children, according to Wolffe's foundation. About 5,500 of those children use mainly braille, while others may have enough sight to read print or might use books on tape.
Full text available at The Eagle
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CO - A place where a child - any child, every child - can be taught
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, January 04 @ 17:20:21 EST by emohan
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There was something about the 2-year-old that just wasn't right.
Oh, he was toddler-cute to be sure. But the way he had difficulty grasping pencils or paint brushes, the way he wouldn't make eye contact - these and other subtle clues caught the attention of his preschool teacher. She alerted a staff member who was an expert on children with special needs.
The expert determined the boy had a mild case of autism. But instead of being shunted off to another school, the child stayed put. The school designed an individual program for him.
A year later, his school continues to work with him because, at the Early Childhood Center of the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center, the focus is on creating a thriving environment where a child - any child, every child - can be nurtured, guided, challenged and taught.
Full text available at Rocky Mountain News
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MI - Centers coming for mentally and emotionally troubled children
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Monday, November 28 @ 13:16:28 EST by emohan
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Families served by Region IV Mental Health/Mental Retardation services will soon be able to receive help for their children in Corinth.
A facility to treat autistic children and preschoolers ages 3-6 is expected to open in early 2006, said Region IV Executive Director Charlie Spearman.
"We started serving preschool children working with the Head Start in Booneville," Spearman said. "We've been so successful there we bought a building to start a program in Ripley, and we're doing the same thing here. But Corinth is the only place that will serve autistic children."
Full text available at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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Charity's plea for child care
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Thursday, June 23 @ 14:29:01 EDT by emohan
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The Government must act immediately on a new report on early childhood care and education, a leading charity demanded yesterday.
St Vincent de Paul (SVP)urged early implementation of recommendations contained in the National Economic Social Forum report.
The report called for more maternal leave for the first year of the child's life, universal access to early learning and help for disadvanted children.
Full story from www.blackenterprise.com.
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UT-Task force on special needs bill sets goals
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Thursday, April 08 @ 18:05:24 EDT by fdietrich
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The task force charged with figuring out how to spend $1.4 million under the governor's veto-compromise plan for the Carson Smith Special Needs Scholarships Bill made their first moves Wednesday to establish a program to help meet the needs of the severely disabled in private schools.
The group voted to target only the students with severe disabilities defined by the state Office of Education. That translates into focusing on students requiring at least three hours of specialized instruction a day with autism or other disabilities.
Full article in Deseret News.com
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Special kids, standardized tests
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Wednesday, March 17 @ 15:07:29 EST by fdietrich
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In the federal government's quest to assess every public school student, special-needs children must take standardized tests they are more likely to fail than are typical students.
And when special-needs children fail, schools fail too, under the standards of the No Child Left Behind act.
The federal reform legislation requires that almost all children be tested by the same standards to ensure they are reaching their potential. If schools fail to show progress, harsh penalties will follow.
Full article in The Denver Post.com
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Bill touts vouchers for special-needs students
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Wednesday, January 28 @ 19:12:06 EST by fdietrich
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It sounds good: vouchers for special-needs students to attend private schools that are better equipped to meet their educational needs.
But critics say it could be a step backward to segregation if lawmakers pass a bill that would give as much as $5,375 in state funding to each parent of a special-needs child to help pay private-school tuition.
Full article in The Salt Lake Tribune
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CA-Foster kids' education effort OK'd
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Wednesday, January 28 @ 19:08:04 EST by fdietrich
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Los Angeles County Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a council to improve the education of foster children in taxpayer-paid nonpublic schools that serve youngsters with disabilities or special needs.
Full article in Press Telegram.com
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Special-education bill under fire
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Wednesday, January 28 @ 18:55:46 EST by fdietrich
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A bill that would provide a government voucher for students with disabilities to attend private school also could open the door for more controversial tuition tax credits. "I think it's a very, very good way to help kids who do have special needs . . . and to pilot special vouchers or tuition tax credits," said Rep. Sheryl Allen, R-Bountiful, a critic of the separate tuition tax credits bill drafted by Rep. Jim Ferrin, R-Orem.
Full article in Deseret News.com
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WI-Area's special-needs parents join forces
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Wednesday, January 14 @ 15:57:12 EST by fdietrich
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It's been a 17-year struggle for Janet Bell of Marshfield to help her son, Nick, fit in. As the mother of a nonverbal special- needs child, it hasn't been easy.
But now there's Parent's Information and Education Resource Group for support, companionship and a network of information, as Nick leaves the protective school environment and enters the working world.
Full article in The Daily Tribune
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Special ed pupils’ testing standards may be changed
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Friday, January 02 @ 17:57:48 EST by fdietrich
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Angela Polley understands that her son’s autism makes him different from the other students in his third-grade class, and she hopes his disability doesn’t harshly affect the rest of his school.
Under the No Child Left Behind test standards, schools are held accountable for the scores for all students.
Polley, however, argues that students like her son Chad, 8, should not be held to the same standard when they simply cannot perform at the same level.
Full article in Graphic News
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MI-4-H program seeks horses to help kids with special needs
Submitted by fdietrich. Posted on Friday, January 02 @ 17:45:44 EST by fdietrich
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FOWLERVILLE - Summer may seem like a long time away, but a riding program is looking for people to donate horses to help kids with special needs.
The 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program in Livingston County operates on a budget of about $3,000 from the Michigan State University Extension office.
Full article in Lansing State Journal
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CA: State Has Shortage of Special Education Teachers
Submitted by Alsalam. Posted on Wednesday, December 10 @ 13:05:26 EST by Alsalam
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California's shortage of fully licensed special-education teachers is leaving the neediest students at an academic disadvantage, a new study released today has found.
Statewide, about 18 percent of the more than 36,000 special-education teachers lacked a full credential in 2002-03, the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning reported.
Full article in The Press-Enterprise.com
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