Thursday, April 26th, 7 - 9 p.m.
Wednesday, May 23rd, 7 - 9 p.
m.
All held at the Missoula Public Library - 301 E.
Main St.
Together, Medicare and Medicaid provide health coverage to about 90 million Americans. To help explain the two programs, the Kaiser Family Foundation today issued a new primer on the Medicare program and an updated version of its primer on the Medicaid program. Prepared by Foundation staff, the primers provide an overview of the programs, who they serve, how the programs work, and how they are financed.
Medicare: A Primer, available at explains key elements of the program that now provides health coverage to nearly 44 million people–including about 37 million people age 65 and older and another 7 million younger adults with permanent disabilities. It looks at the characteristics of the Medicare population, what benefits are covered, how much people with Medicare pay for their benefits and the program's overall costs and future financing challenges. It also provides information about the Medicare Advantage program and the Medicare drug benefit, and includes detailed tables showing the number of Medicare beneficiaries in each state, broken out by age, income level, source of drug coverage, and by enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans.
Medicaid: A Primer, available at , provides an overview of the basic components of the nation's largest health coverage program which covers 55 million low-income individuals (including families, people with disabilities and the elderly) and is the dominant source of the country's long-term care financing. The primer examines the structure of the program, who it covers, what services it provides, and spending. Because Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal and state governments and the states administer the program within broad federal guidelines, programs vary across states.
Tables examining the state-to-state variation in eligibility, enrollment, and spending for Medicaid enrollees are included in the primer.
For additional information, please contact Craig Palosky at 202-347-5270 ( ) or Rakesh Singh at 202-347-5270 ( )
Deadline: May 4, 2007
In partnership with the MetLife Foundation ( ), Enterprise Community Partners offers the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. The program recognizes 501(c)(3) community-based or regional nonprofit organizations and Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities that excel in property and asset management or provide housing to people with special needs.
Awards are presented in two categories: supportive housing, and property and asset management. Applicants may enter either the supportive housing category or the property and asset management category but cannot apply for both categories. Prize money may be used to cover any needs of the winning organizations.
Grants of $35,000 (first place), $15,000 (second place), and $10,000 (third place) will be awarded in each category along with other support and services.
Applicants must be 501(c)(3) community-based or regional non-profit organizations or Tribes/Tribally Designated Housing Entities and members of the Enterprise Network.
Visit the Enterprise Web site for complete program information, eligibility guidelines, and application procedures.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) has recently published the following grant notices in the Federal Register:
Deadline for Transmittal of Application: May 7, 2007
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 7, 2007
Deadline for Transmittal of Application: May 4, 2007
In January, I sent you a copy of an OSEP letter that responded to the issue regarding parental consent requirements related to accessing public benefits or insurance.
At that time, I mentioned that as other letters were sent in response to other questions from the field, they would be forthcoming. Attached are four recent letters that may be of interest to you. The letters include responses to:
--John Hill, National Alliance for Medicaid in Education (NAME) responding to the issue regarding parental consent requirements to accessing public benefits or insurance (same response as before)
--Catherine Clarke, clarifying when a speech or language impairment adversely affects educational performance, the need to use substitutes and schedule make-up speech-language pathology sessions, and the continuum of service delivery options
--Dixie Huefner, clarifying what decision would be the subject of an appeal by either a parent or a local education agency when requesting an expedited due process hearing and placement during appeals
--Perry Zirkel, requesting guidance related to identifying children with specific learning disabilities; e.
g., severe discrepancy, RTI and other research-based models
I hope these are helpful to you. Please let me know if you have any questions.
ORIENTATION TELECONFERENCE FOR STUDENTS: April 19, 2007
TARGET AUDIENCE: Center and SILC staff, managers, and executives,
as well as board members. This is an intermediate to advanced
The weekend after Thanksgiving has traditionally signaled the start of the Christmas shopping season, but as Santa Claus checks his list of who's been naughty or nice, he may also have to make special arrangements for children with allergies or asthma.
Prevalence rates for both diseases have doubled in the past 20 years, and many common household items, including toys, can trigger asthma and allergy attacks.
"Stuffed toys are notorious for carrying dust mites and other substances that can be a major problem for children who take plush toys everywhere they go, including to bed," Dr. Sheryl Lucas, a allergist in Washington, D.C.
, said in a prepared statement.
The state estimates there are almost 3,000 public school students with some form of autism and lawmakers are considering a bill to establish a special agency to help those children and their families.
Legislators on the Government Administration and Elections Committee heard testimony Friday from relatives and teachers of autistic children.
Rep. Committee Co-Chairman Rep. Christopher L.
Caruso said by moving funding and staff to a new agency modeled on the Board of Education and Services for the Blind, the state can more efficiently help the those public school children "autism spectrum disorders."
The uniformed Police Department employees who patrol New York City's public schools are too quick to bully students over minor infractions, a civil rights group charged in a paper issued Sunday.
The New York Civil Liberties Union said that in recent years it has received hundreds of complaints from both students and teachers about foul language, rough treatment and unwarranted arrests by the NYPD's 4,827 school safety agents.
The safety agents are civilian employees of the police department and don't carry firearms. About 70 percent are women.
The group said the agents, whose duties include breaking up fights and operating metal detectors, have also improperly taken on the role of enforcing school rules -- like the district's unpopular ban on iPods and cell phones.
Congress is moving to end a standardized test backed by the Bush administration and given to hundreds of thousands of preschool children in Head Start programs each year, amid complaints from early childhood experts that the exam is developmentally inappropriate and poorly designed.
The National Reporting System, a set of mini-tests said to measure verbal and math skills, has been given in Head Start programs each fall and spring since 2003.
The controversy over the assessment underscores a key but often ignored component in the national debate about standardized testing: How is it determined whether a test measures what it is intended to measure?
When 14-year-old Olivia Gardner discovered the "Olivia Haters" Web page that her Novato middle school classmates had posted on MySpace, she was devastated.
They called her "homo" and "bitch" and suggested "kicking her ass."
"I wish she'd just leave Hill (Middle School) and never come back," one girl wrote.
Olivia did leave for another school. And she has spoken to groups about how much cyberbullying hurts. But this week the nasty postings and phone calls started again at her new school, her mother said.
Sophomore students at the Warren County Vocational-Technical School have been organized into a computer-fixing army by their instructor John Metroke. Each week the students supply other county schools with free tech work while bolstering their skills.
"I thought it was a great way to utilize their talents and give the opportunity for the tech students to practice," said Michael Rossi Jr.
, the superintendent of the Lopatcong Township School District. "This is now their lab."
On Wednesday, students were given layouts of the elementary schools and assigned to load new math software onto specific computers.
Computer programs are a major part of education today and tech support can be costly, Rossi said. Information technology services go from $75 up to $400 an hour per person, he said.
"This is more than free," Rossi said.
"I've already scheduled them for next Wednesday."
It's after school, but about a dozen Jackson Elementary School students are prepared to stay as long as it takes to get this assignment done.
Dome, dum, dum, a bass drum sounds.
They bob their heads, their knees bending at the sound of each beat. They grin and glance at one another as their teacher, Scott Sayre, looks on. For this day, their Altadena classroom has been turned into a recording studio.
"Gandhi!" they rap in unison into the microphone as they stand in front of a synthesizer. "The freedom fighta, the freedom fighta.
"
The classroom rap lyrics are grounded in their reading material, which focused on civil-rights leaders around the world who took a courageous risk to stand for justice. Their songs include such figures as Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson.
June 11 - 22, 2007, MTWRF, 8:10a-12:00p, GBB 205
June 11 - 22, 2007, MTWRF, 1:30-5:30p, GBB 205
Geographic Series and author of This Is Montana, a textbook used in many Montana
Classes will feature lectures by the professor, slides, videos, outside
speakers, reading break periods as well and a possible field trip.
These courses
A lifetime in a wheelchair never occurred to Jim A. Brown when he graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in international agriculture economics, or later when he went back to the family ranch near Miles City.
But a silly mistake 11 years ago - an inebriated attempt to do a flip over a 2½-foot tall shrub - left him a quadriplegic.
Now, instead of marketing Montana beef to Japan, Brown, 37, works part time at St. John's Lutheran after-school program in Billings.
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“Give it to them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and above all accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
Previously in this space: #1 in the series explored definitions of health literacy. #2 said before you give information, offer it.
This keeps the learner in charge of the learning. In #3, we said to keep it brief. Focus on the critical minimum your client needs to solve the problem s/he has now.
In #4, we said make it clear to the learner. Simple is not always clear. Always check-back to confirm understanding.
#5 discusses making materials picturesque to attract and guide the eye. Now we consider picturesque words.
| You have decided it is time to talk to your kids about drugs.
What are you going to tell them? Drugs are bad? Don’t do drugs?
That’s it?
Well, that mantra has been the basic approach employed by public service agencies, schools, and many parents for the past couple of decades. And it clearly has not worked very well.
Drug abuse is worse than ever among adolescents and young adults in our society and has reached virtually epidemic status. Perhaps that is because the premise that drugs are evil and should be avoided is much too simplistic and fundamentally inaccurate, inappropriate, and downright hypocritical.
The fact is that as human beings we find substances capable of altering our consciousness to be useful and enjoyable.
From 2001 to 2003 there were 51,100 school bus-related injuries severe enough to require treatment in an emergency room. The good news is that 97% of the children were treated and released from the hospital.
Forty-three percent of the children injured were 10-14 years old.
The data analysis revealed that:
• 24% of the injuries occurred as the child was boarding,
alighting, or approaching the bus
EX.I.T.
E. (Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) Camps, developed 8 years ago through an IBM initiative, are now a worldwide event— with camps in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The mission of the EX.
I.T.E.
Camp is to empower middle school girls in the fields of math, science, and engineering. For the fourth year in a row, IBM and PACER have collaborated to present a camp specifically for middle school girls with disabilities. The only other IBM Camp for girls with disabilities is in Yamato, Japan.
The 2007 EX.I.T.
E Camp will kick off with an opening ceremony on July 26 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and full camp days on July 30, August 1, 3, and 7 from 9:00 to 4:00 p.
m., a tour of the IBM facility in Rochester, MN from 7:30 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. on August 9 followed by closing ceremonies from 4:00 to 6:00 p.
m.
| EZ AT is a guide to help professionals and parents encourage assistive technology use among children ages 3-8. This 60-page resources guide includes more than 40 fun activities that promote the use of AT in inclusive settings.
EZ AT also includes information about popular assistive technology devices, disability organizations and vendor resources. Each guide is $10.
To order a copy of EZ AT: Assistive Technology (AT) Activities for Children Ages 3-8 with Disabilities please call PACER Center at 952-838-9000.
It's Kennedy versus Kennedy as two members of Congress from the same family face off over competing versions of legislation that would require many health insurance companies and employers to provide more generous benefits to people with mental illness.
Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island and chief sponsor of the House bill, has criticized as inadequate the Senate bill introduced by his father, Senator Edward M.
Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. Representative Kennedy is trying to mobilize mental health advocates to lobby for what he describes as "the stronger of the two bills, the House bill."
| Assume your child began receiving special education services three years ago.
Is your child making progress? Is your child catching up with the peer group? Has your child fallen further behind?
Is your child receiving a free appropriate public education (FAPE)? How do you know? Do you know your child’s standard scores, percentile ranks, subtest scores, and age and grade equivalents on the most recent evaluation?
Have you compared these scores with earlier testing?
Parents, teachers, and advocates must learn how to measure educational progress. If you do not learn how to use information from tests to track your child's progress, you will not be able to play an active role in planning your child's special education program.
Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet "friend" of Barack Obama have a new online opportunity.
MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, launched a section Sunday dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.
Called the Impact Channel, it's the latest attempt by an Internet company to educate voters by serving as an information hub for political candidates and the public.
The site's mostly young users can link to the personal pages or "profiles" of 10 presidential hopefuls by going to impact.myspace.
com.
Math and science teachers are such hot commodities these days, legislators are considering offering them extra pay to fill North Carolina's classrooms.
The state has a spotty history with offering extra money to teachers-in-demand, but influential supporters want to try again.
Senate leader Marc Basnight has been talking about extra pay for science and math teachers for months. He made a big pitch for the idea in a speech to his colleagues launching the legislative session.
Research by Strathclyde University suggests that teachers in mainstream schools do not expect as much of children with special needs as their counterparts in special schools.
| A western York County school district is considering whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal appeals court ruling that opens the door to special education services for a girl with Asperger syndrome whose disability does not limit her academically.
The girl attended public schools in Hiram and Cornish through fifth grade, doing well academically but having difficulties making friends. She later stopped studying, began cutting her arms intentionally and tried to commit suicide.
The court said it was up to Congress or the Legislature to tighten the eligibility guidelines if they are too broad.
Advocates for people with disabilities said the state would do better to accept the federal courts' judgment on the matter.
New research suggests that Americans are more likely to socially reject children with mental illness than they are those with physical illnesses such as asthma.
“Many respondents did not want their children to become friends with other kids identified as having mental illnesses or have them come over to spend an evening socializing,” said Jack Martin, Ph.
D., lead study author.
The Indiana University research team looked at data from a national face-to-face interview of adults who were given descriptions of children of various ages with symptoms that were similar to asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression or “normal troubles.
” The interviewer never mentioned a specific diagnosis.
A charter school for students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia is being proposed for the Twin Cities.
Bruce Lindgren and his wife, Susan, want to open the first-of-its kind school after watching their seventh-grade son, who has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, struggle in Wayzata schools.
"They do the best job they can. But mainstream schools are made for mainstream kids," said Lindgren, a charter school consultant and a founder of ADDvantage Learning Academy.
Carrie Ann Lucas uses a wheelchair.
She breathes with the aid of a ventilator. She cannot hear and can see only at close range.
She begins most days about 4 a.
m. with newspapers and e-mails. About 5:30, she wakes her three daughters.
She and an aide dress the two who use wheelchairs. The girls cannot feed themselves, so Lucas and the aide plug tubes into their bellies. She pours cereal for the daughter who can eat by herself.
She puts the girls on their school buses, the last leaving by 7:10.
She is one of a handful of attorneys in the country whose specialty is representing disabled parents like herself. Her mission: making sure they get the same chance as everyone else to be moms and dads.
Monday, May 14 in Boise, Idaho
Wednesday, May 16 in Billings, MT
Easter Seals-Goodwill will present a one-day workshop to help children and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The workshop focuses on The P.L.
A.Y. Project (Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters), a unique, home and community based education and training program for young children.
Parents, educators and health care professionals who want to learn the fundamentals of this effective, low-cost play-based intervention are encouraged to attend.
*Cost is $99 per person. Call the contact person listed below for additional information or you can Register On-Line Now.
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Can spiraling special education costs explain why educational achievement remained stagnant over the past three decades while real education spending more than doubled? Policy makers, education researchers, and school district officials often make this claim. Special education students—goes the argument—are draining resources away from regular education students.
In 1975, the federal government enacted the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, now called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires states to provide a “free appropriate public education” to all students with disabilities. Parents have the right to work with school officials to devise an individualized education plan for their child. They also have the right to pursue legal action if they and the district cannot agree on what services their child will receive and whether the public school or a private provider will deliver those services.
| When it comes to treating autism, timing is everything, or at least a major part, specialists say. Children with the neurodevelopmental disorder must be taught what comes naturally to their peers, and while the brain is still pliable enough to absorb the lesson, experts said. Because the immature nervous system has a great deal of plasticity, many neuroscientists think early treatment may enrich neural growth.
"If you have a child with autism who's not wired correctly, and we allow that to continue without intervention, those neuropathways will become fixed, and it becomes far more difficult to undo that tangled mess," said Dr. David Holmes, president of the Eden Institute, a non-profit autism center in Princeton, N.J.
| As a parent of a child with a disability or with special needs, you will be only too aware of all the challenges you encounter when you try to get the best help you can for your child. Sadly the list of problems faced by so many children, and their families, never seems to end. Each disability brings with it its own special concerns, but there are many issues which parents share in common.
There is understandably, the shock and disbelief on learning that your child is in anyway disadvantaged or handicapped. It is very hard to accept that this is so. And quite usual at the beginning for parents to block from their thoughts the fact that their child is going to need extra help and will have to be cared for in a special way, perhaps for life.
It is as if denial of the problem will make it go away. If only that were so.
It's not just a bracelet,” 12-year-old Sophie announced with great ceremony to the dark-haired girl across the table.
“It's a magic bracelet.”
Perhaps it was magic. The shiny bit of pretend jewelry brought Ava, who is autistic, a friend to share a lazy Saturday afternoon in Rancho Peñasquitos – someone who would play endless rounds of the board game Pretty Pretty Princess.
Friends are often rare for children like Ava, whose developmental disabilities can isolate them from kids their own age.
| Asher Bloxom eats lots of peas and carrots. He's addicted to books.
He also loves the Montana Grizzlies. The 2-year-old is full of joy, but he lives with a rare disorder that has a frightening name. It's called adrenoleukodystrophy.
There is no cure, and most folks don't know much about it. Asher's mom, Cris Fleming, hopes that changes.
Fleming and her fiancé, Kevin Bloxom, rely on the United Leukodystrophy Foundation for information about ALD, and the Illinois-based organization has launched a campaign to set up a $500,000 endowment.
Foundation supporters Ann Moser and the late Dr. Hugo Moser pledged to contribute $165,000 to the fund if others raise at least that much by July 1. Eventually, all the income from the endowment will go to research.
And eventually, maybe someone will learn something that helps Asher. That's what Fleming and Bloxom hope.
Do you believe that doctors and the health care system should take into account the quality of life of patients?
Do you consider that, ideally, YOU as a patient should be able to tell doctors and the health care system what improves your quality of life, and what does not?
If your answer to these two questions is "Yes", you may not be too surprised to learn that many other people think similarly. Yet one reason why the situation has never really changed before is that the medical profession, health care managers, civil servants and politicians cannot always be expected to know what patients mean by 'quality of life'.
This survey hopes to address that problem by producing some authoritative definitions of the phrase 'patients' quality of life'. The survey is being conducted worldwide, so that patients from many countries can include their valuable thinking on the subject of quality of life.
"My Brother" marks the first time in cinema history where two African American actors with a developmental disability (Down Syndrome), have played leading roles in a feature motion picture.
Christopher is a native Houstonian and a product of the Houston Independent School District.
The movie beautifully illustrates the story of two impoverished boys and their bond of love for each other. One brother, is developmentally disabled, the other struggles with being told by his mother to always watch over his brother.
"My Brother" will be opening on Friday, March 16th in 19 cities, in 15 states across the country. It is a worthy film that has already won 4 best picture, 3 best actress, and 2 best actor awards among a host of other awards and honors. In July, Christopher received "The Founder's Award" for Outstanding Achievement in Film at the American Black Film Festival in Miami.
Students in Michelle Tanner's class will soon be better-equipped than the average third-grader.
Michelle Tanner, a teacher with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind at Gerald Wright Elementary, works with a student on his sign-language skills. Her students will soon have a video iPod to add to their backpacks.
The students in Tanner's class at an extension of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind at Gearld Wright Elementary will soon each have an video iPod to add to their backpack of school supplies. And while most people use the pocket-size devices for entertainment, these students' iPods are for homework only.
Tanner is one of 20 teachers receiving technology grants this month from Qwest for her innovative use of technology in the classroom.
Nine of those teachers are from Salt Lake County, and not all the winners have been announced yet.
When Ricky was born deaf, his parents were determined to raise him to function in the “normal” world. Ricky learned to read lips and was not taught American Sign Language.
He felt comfortable within the secure world of his family, but when he entered his neighborhood school, he grew less confident as he struggled to understand what his classmates seemed to grasp so easily.
Susan, a child with dyslexia, entered kindergarten with curiosity about the world around her, a lively imagination, and a love of picture books. Although her school provided her with individual tutoring and other special education services, it also expected her to read grade-level texts at the same speed as her non-disabled peers.
Susan fell further and further behind. By 6th grade, she hated school and avoided reading.
These two examples illustrate how society's pervasive negative attitude about disability—which I term ableism—often makes the world unwelcoming and inaccessible for people with disabilities.
If you've ever been to an art museum, you know the number one rule: do not touch! That is, unless you had a chance to be on a unique tour at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens on Monday morning.
With every fingertip, gliding over ridges and curls, the image grew clearer.
The first visitors to see the Cummer Museum's new exhibit -- didn't use their eyes at all.
"It's like being able to get to know the art and see what it really looks like," said Maggie Meade, who had just finished running her gloved hand over the bends of a bold wooden woman, a forlorn bronze bust, and other works of art.
After Ben Hathaway's father was called to active duty in the Army National Guard, the 15-year-old had to help his family tend the 130 head of cattle on their 345-acre farm in Leoma, Tenn.
Traditional school burned through too many daylight hours, so Hathaway started taking online classes through Lutheran High School of Orange County in Southern California, about 1,750 miles away.
"Mom was having trouble running the farm by herself," Hathaway, who is taking algebra and world history online, said in a phone interview. "You can schedule everything on your own time.
You don't have to sit for six hours a day -- you can do some work, go eat, play a little on the computer, and come back later and do it."
| Six-year-old Nathan Sarnecky may have autism, but that won't keep him from playing the game he loves: baseball. In a few short months, Sarnecky, along with other children with special needs from Seekonk to New Bedford, will be able to play organized baseball for the first time as part of the new Swansea Little League Challenger Division.
Sarnecky's grandparents, Mike and Brenda Hyland, were instrumental in bringing the division to the area.
"I played on the Tigers in the 70s and my son played in the 90s, but because my grandson was autistic, he was never going to be able to play organized ball," said Mike Hyland, who also coaches in the Swansea Little League and is the vice chairman of the board of governors of the league. "I thought that was kind of sad.
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The recent publication of the newest federal study on the increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders has caused renewed interest and alarm from the public. Teachers and other school personnel will not be surprised by the increase; they are working every day with ever-increasing numbers of children with an autism spectrum diagnosis.
The reason it is called a spectrum disorder is that while there are general characteristics, it is a very broad spectrum.
For instance, children with Asperger's syndrome may be extremely bright and have no friends, but also be very affectionate and caring with family members.
Children on the other end of the spectrum may have severe intellectual disabilities, display self-injurious behaviors and require constant care. Between these two extremes are children who have very diverse and individualized strengths and weaknesses.
Yet, with the appropriate support and services, children with ASD can have successful school experiences.
When you think ADHD, do you think 'boy'? You’re not alone.
Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, even though they’re no more likely to have it. Too many young girls are not getting the help they need. That’s why teachers are so important.
When it comes to learning disabilities, teachers are right there on the front line. We’re often the first to spot a child’s difficulties and to bring it to the attention of parents and specialists. It’s important that we know the different ways ADHD may manifest in our girl students and the reasons we may miss it.
The National Center on Low-Incidence Disabilities is pleased to support the following Parent Survey for parents of children who are blind or visually impaired.
The parent is regarded as the most valuable resource in the education of a child who is blind or has low vision. As a parent with a child who is blind or has low vision (including those with additional disabilities), you are being contacted to help us understand your reasons for choosing to educate your child in a public or residential school setting.
Please, note that participation in this survey is voluntary, and the information you provide cannot be traced to you.
The entire survey will only take ten (10) minutes to complete.
Please, complete the survey by March 16, and Thank you for your participation in this important national study.
Sincerely,
What is a WIPA?
* There are local organizations in most of the 50 states, DC and the U.S.
territories
What can they do for me?
* Plan how work incentives and other federal, state, and local assistance plans can help you return to work
What is an illness?
* An illness is a sickness.
An illness can be acute, which means it comes on quickly and is over quickly (like a cold or the flu) or it can be chronic, which means it lasts a long time (like asthma or diabetes).
What is a disability?
* A disability is a physical or mental problem that makes it harder to do normal daily activities.
What is the Leadership Program in ECSE?
The Leadership Program is a grant funded by the U. S.
Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to prepare doctoral-level leadership personnel in the area of early childhood special education (ECSE), who will gain exemplary skills in evidence-based research, university teaching, program administration, and public policy.
Who Should Apply?
We are looking for doctoral students who are interested in becoming leaders and change agents for services for young children with disabilities and their families.
Leaders who are committed to training professionals, conducting research, and affecting policy to improve the quality of life, and supports and services for children and families. We are looking for people with energy, commitment, and vision and who are willing to make a commitment to working in the area of ECSE upon completion of their degree.
What will the Program Offer?
This Leadership Program in ECSE will support full -time students (tuition and stipend paid) and part-time students (tuition paid). Students will complete core courses and exams for a doctoral degree in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS). Elective coursework and seminars will focus on research and evidence-based practices, early childhood, literacy, cultural competence, family centered practice, special education and policy, and behavioral supports.
The courses are primarily from the Departments of HDFS (Area of Early Child Development, Care, and Education) and the Department of Curriculum and instruction (C I; areas of Special Education, Literacy and Multicultural Studies).
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