1. Special Needs Family Friendly Fun - Schools Classrooms half of whom are developmentallydisabled children. The Higher Education Consortiumfor special Education (HECSE http//www.schooldirect.com iowa Braille School http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/links/schoolsclassrooms.html

Links Portal Offering family friendly fun and special needs resources that enhance the quality and fun of family life for special needs families. Family friendly fun Site map Site 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 Schools Classrooms Other important Schools Classrooms links: ABLE... Educational programs designed to provide basic educational skills equivalent to grades to 12 in speaking, reading, writing, arithmetic, higher order thinking and problem solving, English as a Second... http://www.able.state.pa.us AboutSchool.com: School Resources for Teachers and Students... This school education site will help students, teachers and parents succeed in all school subjects... http://www.aboutschool.com

2. Chairman Branstad Contacts About Guides To Set Record Straight the distinct honor of being the most disabled child to to carry on the high qualityof iowa schools to the Subscribe to the Parenting special needs Newsletter. http://specialchildren.about.com/library/weekly/aa121801a.htm

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3. JS Online: Numbers, Needs Strain Special Education Numbers, needs strain special education after disabled children were guaranteed access to public schools through special education, Cedar Rapids, iowa, that schools should provide allday http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/may02/44311.asp

E-MAIL JS ONLINE WTMJ WKTI ... Advanced Searches JS Online Features List JSO Main Page OnWisconsin.com OnWisconsin LIVE Packer Plus Online Badger Plus Online Chat Editorials Entertainment Features Dining Lifestyle News Obituaries Photo of the Day Packer Insider Real Estate Sports Travel Traffic Weather Wheels Search JS Online AP - The WIRE Lottery Results Yellow Pages Classifieds OnWisconsin Cars General Employment Real Estate Rentals Personals Subscribe to paper Service Desk Contact Us News Wisconsin Milwaukee Waukesha ... PRINT THIS STORY Numbers, needs strain special education By AMY HETZNER of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: May 19, 2002 First of three parts. It touches one of every seven children educated by public schools in Wisconsin, and the number grows year by year. Testing the Limits Photo/Rick Wood Special education at Milwaukee's La Follette Elementary School, 3229 N. 9th St., includes sensory stimulation methods, such as dancing and singing. Student Richard Williams dances with Kelly Ekins, a special education teacher, during playtime while they listen to a favorite song. Series: The Special Education Boom SUNDAY : Nearly one in every seven Wisconsin students now need special education; serving them costs more than $1 billion a year. And both numbers keep growing every year.

4. Iowa Educators Consortium Assistive Technology And Special Needs Software .Assistive Technology and special needs Software. ..(Click on Kurzweil offers a 25% discount to iowa schools. forms for use with disabled students. Contract Provider Software http://www.iec-ia.org/mediatech/mtspecialneeds.html

m The Iowa Educators Consortium is an initiative of the Iowa Area Education Agencies Assistive Technology and Special Needs Software (Click on product name for additional information.) Attainment Company Eligible Buyers: K-12, PS, Pub-C, Pvt-C, DE, T, P, Govt, US Attainment Company specializes in resources for people with developmental and other disabilities. Their product line includes assistive technology, educational curricula, software, videos and hands-on training materials. Attainment Company offers 30% off Attainment Company-produced items to the IEC clients listed above. Eligible buyers are listed by code under each product title. K-12 K-12 public, nonpublic and private schools PS Preschools Pub-C Public colleges and universities Pvt-C Private colleges DE Department of Education PL Public libraries (local, county

5. Inclusive Curricula: Science And Special Educational Needs Inclusive Curricula Science and special Educational needs The World Wide Web contains plenty of information about science and about special educational needs as separate teaching and learning issues. issues facing disabled science students. special Education Science iowa. Modifying handson science lessons for students with special needs strand in special schools and units http://www.tomwilson.com/david/InclusiveCurricula/Sc.htm

Inclusive Curricula: Science and Special Educational Needs Home The World Wide Web contains plenty of information about science and about special educational needs as separate teaching and learning issues. The implications of SEN for Science attract relatively sparse attention, which is why the present website seeks to redress the deficit. Teaching materials Provision and practice Professional development Special schools ... Top Teaching materials Sample units for science : DfES Key Stage 3 National Strategy Adobe Acrobat files Heating and cooling and Resistance to movement are designed for "teachers of science working with pupils with special educational needs." World of Science - Special Needs (SEN) : 160 photocopiable sheets from Oxford University Press. Special Needs Science Worksheets : materials from Classroom Resources shifting the emphasis from literacy skills to subject content. Top Provision and practice Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Science : National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils' needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-4, performance descriptions. Inclusive Science and Special Educational Needs : An Association for Science Education/ National Association for Special Educational Needs collaboration project.

6. 9/5/01 -- A Bad IDEA Is Disabling Public Schools -- Education Week have their children labeled learningdisabled in order special-needs children cost2.3 times as much as Rapids Community School District in iowa was required http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=01bolick.h21

7. Special Education HomePage of special Education written by the iowa Department of similar education needs whoare severely disabled and whose in the general or special education programs http://www.ames.k12.ia.us/schools/wb/wbsped.html

Special Education is Special In Ames Special Education Newsletter Special Education Procedures If it is determined that a student is having difficulties in school, the following procedure is followed in the Ames Community School District: the teacher contacts the parent(s) or guardian(s). the student is referred to the Building Assistance Team (BAT). interventions are determined that may be used in the regular classroom. the Team may be approached several times for more interventions that may be tried. If interventions do not provide for successful experiences for the student, then the student is considered for full and individual evaluation for special education. The following steps are taken: the parent(s) or guardian(s) consent to an assessment. a staffing with the parent(s) or guardian(s) is held to share information and data gathered to determine eligibility for special education. parent(s) or guardian(s) give written consent to place the student in the special education program. an individual education plan is written with the parent(s) or guardian(s). the student is the placed in the special education program.

8. NICHCY: Parenting A Child With Special Needs - Resources special needs A disabled child. iowa City, IA University of iowa. Marsh, J.D.B. (Ed.). (1995). From the heart On being the mother of a child with special needs. http://www.kidsource.com/NICHCY/parenting.disab.all.4.6.html

Parenting A Child With Special Needs: A Guide To Readings And Resources Resources advertisement Credits Source National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities Contents You Are Not Alone The Unplanned Journey Supporting And Empowering The Family Working With Professionals ... References Resources Organizations List Of Publishers and Journals Forums Learning and Other Disabilities Related Articles Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of Children With Disabilities Educating Exceptional Children The publications and organizations listed below, as well as the resources listed throughout this News Digest, are only a few of the many that can provide information to parents and families about issues related to disability. Additional support is also available from state and local parent groups, as well as from state and local affiliates of many major disability organizations. Obtaining Resources That Interest You To help you obtain documents listed in this issue, you will find the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of publishers at the end of this publication. The publisher's name generally appears in the final position in the citation to illustrate, in the example citation below, the publisher is Woodbine House. Example: Sweeney, W. (in press). The special-needs reading list: An annotated guide to the best publications for parents and professionals. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House.

9. KinderStart - Child Development : Special Needs Child Development special needs Child schools/Organizations. schools/Organizations Alabama schools/Organizations International. schools/Organizations iowa. schools/Organizations http://www.kinderstart.com/childdevelopment/specialneedschild

KinderStart Alta Vista Ask Jeeves Excite Google HotBot GO LookSmart Lycos Webcrawler Adoption Animal Friends Bringing Home Baby Child Development ... Child Development : Special Needs Child Categories Advocacy Groups Diagnosis/Warning Signs Educational Issues General Information ... Support Groups Web Pages The following links are in English A.D.D. Consults A.D.D. Consults offers psychoeducational services to individuals, families and professionals via private e-mail. For those who live in areas where information on Attention Deficit Disorder may be scarce. Add/View Comments Rate this Site "The Misunderstood, Misdiagnosed and Unseen Disability" Sensory Integration Dysfunction-This paper will explain sensory integration dysfunction to the point of understanding the nature of this unseen (and often misdiagnosed) disability, as well as its psychological, emotional, learning and social effects on the individual. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Abilitations Abilitations is the industries leading children's therapy and special needs catalog with product mix including movement, special education, sensory integration, adapted play and more. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Ability OnLine Ability OnLine is a friendly and safe computer friendship network where children and youth with disabilities or chronic illnesses connect to each other as well as to their friends, family members, caregivers and supporters.

10. KinderStart - Child Development : Special Needs Child : Schools/Organizations Disabilities Programs The schools on our list are schools for Learning training, assistance,and support to parents of disabled and special needs children. http://www.kinderstart.com/childdevelopment/specialneedschild/schoolsorganizatio

KinderStart Alta Vista Ask Jeeves Excite Google HotBot GO LookSmart Lycos Webcrawler Adoption Animal Friends Bringing Home Baby Child Development ... Special Needs Child : Schools/Organizations Categories Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas ... Wyoming Web Pages The following links are in English Summer Camps and Day Camps Categories for athletics and sports, kids with special interests, kids with special needs, local communities, and job opportunities. Add/View Comments Rate this Site AboutFace USA AboutFace is a non-profit international organization dedicated to providing information, emotional support, and educational programs to individuals who have a facial disfigurement, and to their families. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Afasic Afasic is the UK charity representing children and young adults with communication impairments, working for their inclusion in society and supporting their parents and carers. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Afasic Speech, Language and Communication The organisation for children and young people with communication impairments and their families. Add/View Comments Rate this Site Alcohol Syndrome Family Resource Institute A non-profit organization, is to identify, understand and care for individuals disabled by prenatal alcohol exposure and their families, and to prevent future generations from having to live with this disability.

11. COPAA NewsWatch: Schools Say They're Pushed, Pulled By Washington district in Cedar Rapids, iowa, had already Republicans They are scapegoating disabledkids Today, 5.8 million specialneeds children nationwide representing http://www.copaa.net/newstand/schoolfund.html

N EWS A RTICLES OF S PECIAL I NTEREST F ROM A ROUND T HE C OUNTRY March 18, 1999 Schools say they're pushed, pulled by Washington By ANJETTA McQUEEN AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The school district in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had already overspent its special education budget by $1 million when the Supreme Court ruled it had to pay for one-on-one nursing for a student adding $30,000 a year. Garret Frey, the 16-year-old sophomore on a ventilator because of an accident that left him paralyzed, isn't the issue, said Superintendent Lew Finch. The case is really about the federal government creating rules requiring schools to educate children with disabilities, but not sending enough money to ensure they can afford it. If schools don't get more help, they may need to raise local taxes, Finch said. "This might be the case that opens a lot of eyes." Special education is one of the most emotional issues schools face, and one of their fastest-growing costs. States have long fought with local schools and the Education Department over costs. Now Republicans and Democrats in Congress are debating how much the federal government should help. Nearly 6 million children receive special education instruction and services costing $60 billion, about $5 billion of that from the federal government. About $55 billion comes from states and local districts, which follow strict rules stemming from the 1975 federal law covering special education.

12. Education World® - Special Education : Disabilities : *Magazines & Journals building a community for the disabled. and young adult with a disability or specialhealthcare needs. iowa Summer Writing Festival program for adults offering http://db.education-world.com/perl/browse?cat_id=6386

13. HCC Goes Extra Mile To Meet Needs Of Disabled HCC goes extra mile to meet needs of disabled students her education this fall atthe University of Northern iowa. Lots of students with special needs try to http://www.wcfcourier.com/entertainment/collegelife02/11HCC.html

HCC goes extra mile to meet needs of disabled students By VIRGINIA WILBER Courier Correspondent WATERLOO - Going from high school to college can be a transition when students must work on being a self-advocate. This is especially true if students have specific needs or a disability. For some students, Hawkeye Community College offers a smaller atmosphere that can ease this transition, allow students to earn a degree or prepare them to move on to a large university. Recent HCC graduate Vicky Buss is a full-time student continuing her education this fall at the University of Northern Iowa. She graduated in May with an associate in arts degree and plans to become an elementary teacher. Buss wants to help teach children with disabilities, something she feels is worth going back to school for since she has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) herself. ADD, according to the Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine, is "an underactivation of the brain that results in impulsive and hyperactive behavior with an inability to concentrate and process information, regardless of intelligence level." "When I first started I knew I had a learning disorder but never seeked help," said Buss. "I talked to counselors and they told me to notarize it so I could get help, but I was stubborn. I was going to do it on my own."

14. Therapy/Respite Camps: Kids With Autism And Other Special Needs Information about summer camps for kids with autism and other special needs in the US.Category Health Mental Health Services United States...... special needs. Ages 821. Camp Albrecht Acres, in Sherrill, iowa, is a Camp for thementally and physically disabled and ages range from 2-Unlimited. http://wmoore.net/therapy.html

Therapy/Respite Camps for Kids This page evolves as people tell me about new camps, so if you know of camps that are not listed here, please email me so I can get the information posted here. If you direct a camp that would like a simple WWW page that describes your camp, I'll be pleased to put one up just email a description of the camp to me. Also, please let me know about any other WWW resources to which I should have a link. Thanks! What's Here? Information about summer camps that focus on therapy for kids with special needs and/or respite for the kids and their families. I have broken it into national categories and regional categories in the USA: United States Northeast Southeast Midwest Southwest ... Mexico Apologies in advance if my sense of these regions differs from yours! I also have some links to other potentially useful pages Camps in the Northeast (USA) Connecticut Camp Horizons provides winter weekend get-a-ways, a week long holiday event, and 8 weeks of residential summer camp for children and adults who are mild to moderately mentally handicapped. In South Windham, CT. Camp Hemlocks , in Hebron, is a rustic, barrier-free, year-round camping facility which provides recreational, educational and social programs for children and adults with disabilities and their families.

15. Welcome To Adobe GoLive 5 North Garnavillo Street, Anamosa, iowa, 52205. offer special programming for specialneeds students physicially, mentally, or behaviorally disabled student will http://www.anamosachamber.com/schools.html

16. Appalling: News San Francisco schools Failing to Help disabled Students All special ed childrendo have a right to education Tell me the difference between iowa’s ex http://specialed.about.com/library/weekly/aa112601a.htm

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17. Star Schools Cycle Three - 1992 populations of adults and youth with special needs those with K6 as well as disabledstudents with The iowa Distance Education Alliance under the auspices http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/StarSchools/cycle3.html

18. EDUCATION - OVERSEAS between states in levels of enrolment of disabled students in mainstream as opposedto special schools. points in the three cities on the iowa test of basic http://www.bl.uk/services/information/welfare/issue34/educover.html

Home Services Information services Social policy ... site map The Social Policy Information Service - Welfare Reform on the Web EDUCATION - OVERSEAS DECISION-MAKING IN AUSTRALIAN HIGH SCHOOLS B. Mulford, and others International Studies in Educational Administration, vol.29, 2001, p.51-75 This article examines the decision-making process in high schools in one Australian State. The more positively teachers viewed the decision making process in the school, the higher the degree of influence they perceived to be exerted by education staff in the school. DIFFENTIATING INTEGRATION: SPECIAL EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION K. Thomson European Journal of Special Needs Education, vol.17, 2002, p.33-47 In the Soviet Union education of children with special needs was sharply segregated and based on locally developed theories of "defectology". Since the fall of Communism the segregated system has largely remained intact due to financial constraints, the organizational legacy of the Soviet differentiated system, the tenacious ideological legacy of "defectology" and resistance to integration as a Western idea. However, small-scale changes to the special education system at the local level are being made. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY S. Fallows and R. Bhanot

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20. News Digests: Parenting A Child With Special Needs: A Guide To Reading And Resou Rebuilding your dream Family life with a disabled child. iowa City, IA Universityof iowa. From the heart On being the mother of a child with special needs. http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/newsdig/nd20txt.htm

NICHCY Our Publications News Digests A publication of the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities Parenting a Child with Special Needs Table of Contents Introduction You Are Not Alone The Unplanned Journey References ... Publishers News Digest 20 (ND20) 3rd Edition, 2003 Approx. 25 pages when printed. PDF version Introduction You Are Not Alone The Unplanned Journey Back to top You Are Not Alone: For Parents When They Learn That Their Child Has a Disability by Patricia McGill Smith If you have recently learned that your child is developmentally delayed or has a disability (which may or may not be completely defined), this message may be for you. It is written from the personal perspective of a parent who has shared this experience and all that goes with it. Many things can be done to help yourself through this period of trauma. That is what this paper is all about. In order to talk about some of the good things that can happen to alleviate the anxiety, let us first take a look at some of the reactions that occur. Common Reactions On learning that their child may have a disability, most parents react in ways that have been shared by all parents before them who have also been faced with this disappointment and this enormous challenge. One of the first reactions is

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