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Charting
a Course After High School (Education Week - 3/13/09)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act calls for
schools to help students develop a plan that will carry them
to college or the workplace, but the requirement remains a
challenge for familes and educators alike.
Patti's Comment: This article frustrates me because it
is so sad and so true. Schools still do a poor job of transition
planning for students with disabilities.
Dear
Colleague Letter: Access by Students with Disabilities to
Accelerated Programs (U.S. Dept. of Education)
A letter from the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights advising
of an issue involving students with disabilities seeking enrollment
in challenging academic programs.
Disabilities
Fight Grows as Taxes Pay for Tuition (New York Times
- Oct. 27, 2007)
A case that became a flash point in special education, pitting
parents against school systems that say they cannot afford
to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents
reject their proposed placements.
Do
Kids with Disabilities Strain or Strengthen our Schools?
(Business Week - 9/09)
The life of Samuel, a fourth grader with cerebral palsy whose
odysseys and those of four others with disabilities are chronicled
in the award-winning documentary, "Including
Samuel." The film chronicles the efforts of Dan,
his wife, Betsy, and their older son, Isaiah, to involve Samuel
in every part of their lives and in the public schools in
their hometown of Concord, N.H.
Federal
Court Orders Oakland University to Pay $101,676 in Discrimination
Case (Oakland Press - 6/25/10)
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service has been awarded
$101,676 in attorney fees following a legal battle with Oakland
University to allow an intellectually disabled man to live
in a campus dorm.
Helping
Learning Disability Students Head to College (Michael
Russell)
More and more of today's high school students who struggle
with a learning disability are not letting that keep them
back, but are heading off to college in spite of their disability.
There are several steps of preparation that students who have
learning disabilities can take to make the transition from
high school to college as smooth as possible.
Invisible
Disabilities and Postsecondary Education (Disabled World)
A video focusing on how to accommodate students whose disabilities
are not readily apparent, also called invisible disabilities.
Invisible
Disabilities are certain kinds of disabilities that are
not immediately apparent to others. It is estimated that 10%
of people in the U.S. have a medical condition which could
be considered a type of invisible disability.
Keeping
All Students Safe (Our Children Left Behind)
Often, when negotiating over state or federal legislation
or even school district policy, aimed at promoting the use
of restraint and other forms of aversive (read: abusive) tactics
against children with disabilities, lawmakers, administrators
and others want to propose to us the “worst case scenario.”
Even if they do not call it a “worst case scenario,”
you can sense its nature through its hopeless air, its lack
of salient details and its characterization of a person with
a disability as an object of fear and a ticking time bomb,
ready to “go off” at any minute.
Miller
Bill: Letter to COPAA requesting they remove sponsorship for
the Miller Bill
(Dee Alpert, The Stan Appell-Jean Alpert School Restraints
and Abuse Fund)
Minnesota
Parents Work Toward More Inclusion of Children with Disabilities
in Catholic Schools (Media dis&dat - 1/4/09)
A child with Down syndrome is told by school it wasn't able
to provide the special support she needs.
Protecting
Students with Disabilities: FAQ's About Section 504 and the
Education with Children with Disabilities (LD online)
An important goal of the Office for Civil Rights is to foster
partnerships between school districts and parents to address
the needs of students with disabilities.
Providing
Reasonable Accommodations to Individuals with Disabilities
in Internship Sites and Postdoctoral Internship Positions
(American Psychological Assn.)
This article examines how doctoral internships and postdoctoral
residencies can provide reasonable accommodations and ensure
equal access once sites have provided admission to otherwise
qualified applicants with disabilities.
Rights
for Children vs. Rights for Adults with Disabilities (Autism
Support Network)
Children with disabilities are entitled to receive a “free
and appropriate public education (FAPE),” but what about
adults? As many parents find out, sometimes late in the game,
there are major differences between the services their child
(more or less automatically) received during the K-12 school
years, versus what can be expected in adult.
School
Nurses and Diabetes Care (Bella Online)
Families of California children with insulin dependent diabetes
were frustrated and angry over a California Superior Court
ruling that eliminated a long sought provision allowing trained
non-licensed school staff to administer insulin when a school
nurse is not available.
Shortening
School Day for Students Using Accessible Bus, Not Providing
Accessible Parking or Playground Violated 504
In an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) decision, Sierra Vista
(AZ) Unified School District, 54 IDELR 35 (OCR, July 10, 2009)
OCR found a violation of 504 when students who used an accessible
school bus, arrived at school 10 minutes late in the morning
and had to leave class early in the afternoon to use the bus.
The parents of a student who used a wheelchair had filed a
complaint because of the shortened school day.
Students
with Disabilities Can Apply for College Prep Program (Univ.
of Washington News- 12/4/09)
The University of Washington's DO-IT Scholars program invites
applications from Washington state high school sophomores
and juniors with disabilities who are interested in preparing
for college and challenging careers.
The
Post-High School Outcomes of Youth With Disabilities up to
4 Years After High School
(National Center for Special Education Research)
The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), funded
by the National Center for Special Education Research at the
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education,
provides a unique source of information to help in developing
an understanding of the experiences of secondary school students
with disabilities nationally as they go through their early
adult years.
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