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Extractions: With January temperatures climbing into the upper 50s, it seems a perfect time to talk about summertime events. I've gathered some information to show your patrons how to locate the perfect camp or retreat. (Note that Web sites are listed near the end of this document, after a discussion of print resources.) Alan Sherman's famous song notwithstanding, summer camps are not just for kids. There are a number of adult retreats now available. No matter what age group is involved, though, what happens at a summer camp can range from pure recreation to an intense learning experience. The American Camping Association publishes the best all-around source for camps and retreats, titled Guide to ACA-Accredited Camps, 1997/98 edition. Detailed and varied indexes are what make this source particularly useful. There is an alphabetical list of all camps, of course, but this is supplemented by several others, including those for day camps, Christian camps, and camps that rent their facilities. Particularly useful is a "Special Clientele" index for finding camps with specialized facilities and staff trained to deal with health problems and disabilities, as well as camps designed for seniors, single adults, and gifted students. An "Activity Index" lets you locate camps with archery, arts & crafts, or aviation, not to mention backpacking, bicycling, or boating.
Educational Foundation: Diversity, Special Needs Diversity and special needs The Harper College Educational national trend showingmore disabled students attending community colleges in illinois offered such http://www.harpercollege.edu/giving/diversity.shtml
Extractions: Harper College was one of the first community colleges in the nation to develop a comprehensive support program for deaf/hard of hearing students and a specialized instruction program for learning disabled students, which currently serves more than 500 students each year. With a national trend showing more disabled students attending community colleges instead of four-year institutions, Harper College considers itself at the forefront of this remarkable change. English as a Second Language Anticipating an influx of international students in the future, the Foundation supported a comprehensive English language instruction and information services program in the early 1980's when few community colleges in Illinois offered such a resource. Originally designed to help students integrate into their new environment in the United States, the program now includes
Manhattan Institute Education Research Office t Skim the Best disabled Students, School special needs Growth Probed, FloridaToday, December 10 illinois Graduation Rate 77%, Chicago SunTimes http://www.miedresearchoffice.org/mediamentions.html
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Listings Of The World Reference Education Special Education Referral Source for K12 disabled Children http Responsible Education Post Review(Chicago, illinois) http//www information for parents of special needs children http://listingsworld.com/Reference/Education/Special_Education/Support/
Home Page under 3 years of age with special needs in acquiring in 1960, provides services fordevelopmentally disabled children and illinois Department of Mental Health. http://www.northstarnet.org/hsshome/ptmhc/
Extractions: Mission Statement The mission of the Proviso Township Mental Health Commission is to provide financial assistance, in the form of annual or special grants for operating purposes from funds obtained by special assessment of an annual tax on real property, to agencies involved in providing services to Township residents who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or substance abusers. Mental Health Commission Youth and Family Consortium The Proviso Township Mental Health Commission was first established in 1966 by the Proviso Township Board of Trustees. The seven member mental health board was created by the Community Mental Health Act of 1967, and has the power to construct, repair, operate, maintain, regulate and develop community mental health facilities to provide mental health services. These facilities provide services to Proviso residents in the following areas of need: Crisis Intervention and assessment, alcoholism, drug addiction, developmental disabilities, domestic violence, older adult abuse, family and youth problems.
Types Of Information In The Illinois Documents Collection for Minority, Women and disabled Business Owners. in illinois; Vital Statistics illinois;Mental Health Disabilities and Parents of Children with special needs; http://www.skokie.lib.il.us/s_info/in_government/Illinois_Documents/types.html
Extractions: premium databases ask a librarian for information Publications of Illinois state government agencies at the Skokie Public Library give citizens unique access to the business of their governmentits actions, processes, decisions and servicesand in doing so cover a wide variety of topics. Some popular Illinois Documents at Skokie Public Library concerning government and law are: A variety of Illinois Documents at Skokie Public Library serve the business community. Some examples are:
CATALYST, December 2002: Special Education of students classified as learningdisabled is up The paperworkwhich special educationteachers contend is more so troublesome that the illinois Council for http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/12-02/1202shortage.htm
Extractions: Nationally, demand for special education teachers has been on the rise for a decade. The number of students classified as learning-disabled is up more than 10 percent, partly due to more aggressive testing and identification. Over the past 25 years, the number of special education students has grown steadily and now accounts for 12 percent of the national school population, up from 8 percent in 1976. While it searches for an answer to that question, CPS has to do what it can to fill special education vacancies. To widen the applicant pool beyond city limits, CPS suspended the residency requirement for one year and five teachers were hired as a result. Another 28 have applied this year, and will be hired if the board suspends residency another year.
Illinois H.O.U.S.E.: Homeschooling The Special Needs Child child with special needs is not a child with special needs, you can receive special illinois) mandates a free appropriate education for all children with special education needs, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7804/a13.htm
Extractions: Please update your bookmark for this page to http://www.illinoishouse.org/a13.htm Homeschooling the Special Needs Child Homeschooling a child with special needs is not a question of legality. As a parent of a child with special needs, you can receive special services from your school district at no further cost you have already paid for them with your taxes. This includes speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, audiologists' and social workers' services. These are all covered by Public Law 94-142. A cheerful, polite call to your local school district ought to get things started nicely. Do not be surprised if there is a pleasant, but persistent effort on their part to convince you to send your child to their school on a full-time basis. You can be pleasant and persistent too, rather as you would be if a valued friend tried to convince you to change your religious affiliation. If you are treated rudely, it may well be the reaction of someone who feels threatened. Be calm. Sooner or later others realize that you merely want services that you have paid for. Have you read the information on how to deal with questions about socialization, both from family members and others? Read them again, because this applies even more to those whose children have special needs. I remember talking to a teacher of slow learners. She was indignant that one of her former students was to be homeschooled. The child was already immature, she said, implying that being among her family would make her more so. Later I talked to her mother, who said that once her child was removed from an immature peer group she had improved dramatically. This seemed eminently plausible to me. That is not to say that your child should be removed from all peer contact.
CATALYST, December 2002: Special Education Under federal court order, the illinois State Board of classes of disabled and nondisabledstudents to keep detailed records of every special education student http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/12-02/1202coreyh.htm
Education And Research About The Disabled sites concerning the education of the disabled and/or of blind children in Illinoismanyinteresting teachers of students with special needs through distance http://www.cio.noaa.gov/hpcc/access/educate.htm
Extractions: The following is a list of sites concerning the education of the disabled and/or research into disabilities. The content of this page was gleaned primarily from a couple of excellent resources elsewhere on the Internet. Barrier-Free Education This site has been designed to contain resources for the inclusion of students with disabilities into math and science education Valdosta State University Special Services Program Parents of blind children in Illinoismany interesting sites Disability Resource Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity Window) a recently launched pilot project aimed at supporting teachers of students with special needs through distance education An excellent list of schools for the Blind in the United States Deafblind Online Mobility International U.S.A. is an excellent resource for anything to do with issues relating to adapting and including persons with disabilities into international exchange programs (with a special emphasis on students). Division of Developmental Disabilities from the Iowa University Affiliated Program The Institute on Community Integration A University Affiliate Program at the University of Minnesota dedicated to improving community services and social supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families The University of Kansas, SPED ON-LINE
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COPAA NewsWatch: "GOING TOO FAR FOR DISABLED CHILDREN" A new student will be coming soon to an illinois thirdgrade and it proposes theremoval of disabled and retarded students from special education and http://www.copaa.net/newstand/arcmo.html
Extractions: By Joseph Bauers "A new student will be coming soon to an Illinois third-grade classroom. He cannot speak; he cannot read; he cannot walk. He can only go a minute or so without drooling. He has no bladder or bowel control. Like an infant, he needs frequent changes. He makes wild, uncontrolled movements and loud, involuntary noises. Whether he can learn anything - beyond simple gestures indicating yes or no - is, as of yet, unknown. But this child, like thousands of others around the country, is part of a little known revolution in education. It is called total inclusion, and it proposes the removal of disabled and retarded students from special education and their reassignment to regular classrooms. In my 26 years in the public schools, I have seen any number of inane ideas spawned by bureaucrats, but this notion stretches the bounds of rationality. It is so wrong and so ill-timed that it challenges our very capacity to wonder. Behind this movement is a hard-core of parents, lawyers, advocacy groups, college professors and education bureaucrats - all of whom are working hard to impose a tyranny of the minority on the rest of us. And they are doing so under the guise of helping those children least able to help themselves.
Special Education - Western Illinois University Darlos K. Mummert, Ed.D., illinois State University. 551 Characteristics of the MildlyDisabled in a a framework for understanding the special education needs http://www.wiu.edu/grad/sped.htm
Links Whitted And Cleary, Special Education Law Illinois lesser protections for qualified disabled individuals. the fundamental basis for specialeducation law 2) illinois special education statute (school code) http http://www.whittedclearylaw.com/FSL5CS/Custom/TOCLinks.asp
Extractions: CURRENT NEWS REPORTS NEWS STORY William Fabian v Flossmoor School District #161 Other Cochlear Implant Information: - This article by Dawn Burton Koch, M.D. www.oraldeafed.org - This Good Morning America news story tracks an entire family which received cochlear implants in July 2001. General Special Education Resources: 1) Federal Disability Website www.DisabilityInfo.gov A new website generated by President George Bush which serves as a "one-stop source of government information relevant to people with disabilities," including information from several federal departments regarding housing, education, employment and transportation. 2) Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Vitae for it's housing for the disabled program. education student teachers throughout Illinoisand particularly in Geared for trainers of special needs drivers and 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.
Special Needs Family Friendly Fun - Environmental Health and fun of family life for special needs families. about the Agius family and otherspecial interests on the campus of Southern illinois University, Carbondale http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/links/environmentalhealth.html
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 Environmental health links:
