April 10, 2017
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop As new accounts allowing people with disabilities to save money without jeopardizing their government benefits become increasingly available, Congress is considering changes to the program. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives introduced a package of bills this month to modify the […]
April 6, 2017
By: Hayley Munguia
Source: The Pasadena Star-News The state’s education department has directed the Alhambra Unified School District to improve its special education program by giving those students more time in classrooms with other students. Federal law requires that students with disabilities be assimilated into classrooms with their nondisabled peers to the “maximum extent possible.” […]
April 6, 2017
By: Tara Garcia Mathewson
Source: Education Dive Chicago Public Schools is in a state of financial crisis, struggling under the weight of previous borrowing and pension debt while the state can offer no reprieve due to its own fiscal crisis in Springfield. But while the district has laid off art and music teachers, librarians and […]
April 5, 2017
By: Letitia Zwickert
Source: Education Week When was the last time you, as a teacher, went out with a student’s parent for karaoke or witnessed your students scrubbing your classroom floor? Or took a coffee break with your students during class? If this sounds a little foreign to you, that’s because it is! There are […]
April 5, 2017
By: Wayne Drash and Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Source: CNN Gracie Gregory smiles beneath her brilliant blue eyes. She’s sitting on her mother’s lap, next to her older sister, Ryleigh, who boasts about Gracie being “very sweet and kind.” It wasn’t always so. Just a couple years ago, Ryleigh, 11, was scared of her sister when […]
April 4, 2017
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
Source: Houston Chronicle After six months of talking about the need to fix Texas’ embattled special education system, state lawmakers are getting to work. The House Public Education Committee is holding hearings today on a half-dozen different pieces of legislation related to special education. It will be the first chance for […]
April 4, 2017
By: Kavitha Cardoza
Source: PBS JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a look at whether having cameras in the classroom can protect children with disabilities, who can be targets for bullying and can be subject to abuse by teachers. But cameras raise their own issues. Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza with our partner Education Week traveled to Keller, Texas, to […]
March 31, 2017
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop The number of doctors with the expertise to evaluate and treat kids with developmental disabilities is alarmingly low, researchers say, which can delay critical assessments and intervention. The wait to see a developmental and behavioral pediatrician is often nearly half a year, according to findings published this month in […]
March 28, 2017
By: Sara Zaske
Source: The Atlantic At a Berlin day-care center, the children packed away all the toys: the cars, the tiny plastic animals, the blocks and Legos, even the board games and most of the art materials. They then stood in the empty classroom and looked at their two instructors. “What should I do […]
March 28, 2017
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Moms and dads of kids with autism spend less time together than couples with typically-developing children, new research suggests, but that doesn’t mean they don’t support one another. In a study looking at the day-to-day experiences of parents of kids on the spectrum, researchers found that such couples spend […]