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Arizona: Scholarships Should Remain; Legislature Cuts Money
Daily Courier (AZ)
The roller coaster ride continues for parents working to get the best education available for their special needs children. The Arizona Legislature in 2006 approved a scholarship program for special needs students and foster children. The scholarship program, which the Arizona Department of Education manages, is under attack on two fronts, legally and financially.
Arkansas Legislation Could Require Dyslexia Testing for All Students
Today's THV (AK)
A proposed legislation would require Arkansas schools to test for dyslexia. The disorder causes the brain to misinterpret letters and words, and studies show many children diagnosed before 3rd grade can be treated.
Artist 'Draws' from Life Experiences
The Times (IN)
Ben Glenn grabbed his chalk and started creating a colorful centerpiece on a black bed sheet. The "Chalk Guy" entertained the large crowd during the ninth annual Boys & Girls Club's Steak and Burger dinner at the Porter County Expo Center in Washington Township, Indiana. Glenn, who suffers from ADHD and dyslexia, told the audience how he was labeled "special" as a child and in middle school was called "stupid." "I'm 35 years old now, but I still remember one of my teachers telling me to try, and she saw the potential in me," Glenn said. "You have to see challenges as an opportunity."
Artist Kay Cochran Is Showing Her Work in Eagle, CO
Vail Daily News (CO)
Trekkies will appreciate one of Eagle resident Kay Cochran’s resume entries. The 41-year-old sculpted some of the dummy Borg drones for various Star Trek films. Cochran says she has dyslexia and that art represents effective communication for her since written communication can be very awkward.
As Special Education Class Sizes Increase in NYC, Community Members and Advocates Grow Worried
Bed-Stuy Patch (NY)
The Panel on Education Policy recently agreed to a change in the Fair Student Funding formula that will increase New York City's special education class sizes at the start of the 2011 school year. This change will raise enrollment in elementary school inclusions classes from 10 to 12 students, and in high school self-contained classes from 12 to 15 students. The projected changes have left some parents, teachers and community advocates worried.
Ask for Behavior Plan at School for Child with ADHD
The Flint Journal (MI)
Columnist Kori Carson Dean fields a question from a concerned mother regarding her 10-year-old son, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. His teacher constantly sends him to the office for behavioral problems, and then the principal suspends him from school. Dean advises the mother on the next steps she should take toward keeping him in school and getting the services he needs to succeed.
Assisted Listening Devices Benefit Children with Dyslexia
MedicalXpress.com
For children with dyslexia, the use of assistive listening devices (classroom frequency modulation systems) reduces auditory processing variability, with concomitant improvements in reading and phonological awareness, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Assisting Struggling Students is Topic of Talk
Post-Bulletin (MN)
With the right help, students who struggle with reading, writing and spelling can excel in school. Wilson Anderson, a 40-year teaching veteran, will speak at the Reading Center and Dyslexia Institute of Minnesota Nov. 19. Parents can learn how to help their struggling children.
Assisting Students with Special Needs
Education Week Teacher
How can teachers best assist students with special needs? It's a question facing many of us daily. Three experienced educators — Michael Thornton, Gloria Lodato Wilson, and Ira David Socol — are offering their thoughts on the topic.
Assistive Technology Helps Students with Disabilities Keep Up in School
Steamboat Pilot & Today (CO)
A child with limited sight would have been excluded from many learning activities just 15 years ago. Relegated to large-print books and unable to read classroom handouts, unless specially printed, children with low vision often were left in the dark. But for students today technology now exists — and is present in the Steamboat Springs School District of Steamboat Springs, CO — to help children with disabilities read and write every line of their curriculum.
Assistive Technology Tools for Writing
Bend Language & Learning
Writing by hand can be a daunting task for students with dysgraphia, dyslexia, or motor limitations. As a result, students with handwriting challenges typically produce written work that is far below their oral expressive skills. Fortunately, assistive technology can alleviate the handwriting burden, so that students are freed to focus on the content of their written work. As the holiday shopping season approaches, you may wish to consider investing in technology to support your child’s writing skills.
Assistive Technology: Write Answers
Education Week
Assistive technology is designed to make hard or even seemingly impossible tasks doable—and for students with disabilities, writing can be one of the hardest school tasks of all. But since difficulties in writing are wide-ranging—and technology is rapidly evolving—finding the right AT device can be an ordeal.
At Book Summit, Access to Reading Matters Most
Education Week
Publishers, writers, preservationists, technology experts, and literacy advocates gathered at the Library of Congress last week to discuss the future of reading and reading technology at the first International Summit of the Book. While the summit offered a variety of perspectives on the evolving role of the book in knowledge-sharing, access to reading emerged as a shared interest and challenge for those concerned with books in relation to literacy.
At Galindo Elementary School, Special Education Students Shine in Integrated Classrooms
Austin American-Statesman
Students in a fourth-grade classroom at Galindo Elementary School are taking turns reading from "Romeo and Juliet." It's difficult at first glance to tell the students in special education from those who are not. The South Austin school's principal, Donna Linn, said she has worked hard not just to develop an appreciation for the needs of individual students, but also to develop a schoolwide appreciation for including students receiving special education services in regular classes.
At Perkins, High-Tech is Both Future and Now
Boston Globe
Before Ashley Bernard got her new iPod Touch, the Perkins School for the Blind student could not use an MP3 player without help. But thanks in part to school officials, who encouraged Apple Inc. to make an iPod that gives and responds to spoken commands - standard on the latest models - Bernard can listen to her music like any other 16-year-old. Such technological advances received a major boost Monday night with a $10 million donation from the Grousbeck Family Foundation.
At Senate Hearing, Witnesses Offer Alternatives to Restraints, Seclusion
Education Week, On Special Education blog
While many of the reports and previous testimony on the subject in the House have centered on horror stories in which students were severely injured or died because they were restrained or isolated without supervision, the witnesses who testified at a Senate hearing on restraints and seclusion were generally measured and offered specific solutions for reducing their use, and misuse, in schools.
Los Angeles Daily News (CA)
Parents send their children to Westmark, a school for those with learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, attention-deficit disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Then they arrive at the Encino campus, and something changes. They find something within themselves: the ability to learn.
Athletics and Special Education: Reaction to New Guidelines
Education Week
A document from the U.S. Department of Education intended to clarify schools' responsibility to make sure students with disabilities have access to extracurricular sports has drawn sharply different opinions. Disability-rights advocates welcome the guidance, while critics say federal officials are pushing requirements that could place new financial burdens on districts.
Atlanta High Schools Broke Rules to Meet Performance Standards
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A learning disability made school hard for Chantel Cox. But she always stayed on grade level and looked forward to earning a high school diploma. She actually was excited about taking the state graduation tests. But the morning of the high school writing test, in September 2009, school administrators pulled Chantel and several other Carver juniors aside. All stood a good chance of failing — and of lowering the school's odds of meeting its do-or-die performance targets. While the rest of the 11th grade took the test required for all juniors, Chantel and the others worked puzzles in a special-education classroom.
The Boston Globe
Armed with an improved sense of how attention works, scientists have begun researching whether attention can be trained. And their findings have been intriguing. Building upon this new understanding, researchers are discovering that skills of focus can be bolstered with practice in both children and adults, including those with attention-deficit disorders.
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