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Tapping Into Potential With Expectations: Making Employment And Post-Secondary Education The New Norm For Individuals With Disabilities, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies
Tapping Into Potential With Expectations: Making Employment And Post-Secondary Education The New Norm For Individuals With Disabilities, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies
Education
In her keynote address from the University of Maine World Usability Day Conference on November 8, 2018, Dr. Kelly Nye-Lengerman discusses how large numbers of people with disabilities can’t access the typical trajectory for economic wellbeing. “What is it about our educational settings or employment settings that are not making these spaces available or accessible to people with disabilities?”
Policy Brief: Elementary And Secondary Education (Esea) Act Reauthorization, The 2014-2015 Corhort Of New Hampshire Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental And Related Disabilities Program Trainees And Community Fellows.
Policy Brief: Elementary And Secondary Education (Esea) Act Reauthorization, The 2014-2015 Corhort Of New Hampshire Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental And Related Disabilities Program Trainees And Community Fellows.
Education
The reauthorization of ESEA must occur and be strengthened to continue providing equal and inclusive access to quality education with rigorous standards and high expectations for all students, including students who experience disabilities. Public education is every citizen's universal opportunity for a better life and is the best path toward a stronger America. Accountability is the cornerstone to ensure tax dollars are producing targeted results.
An Analysis Of Disability-Related Provisions In The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (Heoa): What Universities And Policy Makers Should Know, Alan Kurtz
Education
The purpose of this October 2011 policy brief is to provide state agencies, postsecondary institutions, and policy makers with an overview of changes in the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) affecting the access to education of postsecondary students with disabilities and the way teacher education programs at Institutions of Higher Learning (IHEs) prepare general and special educators to teach students with disabilities. Specifically, this analysis reviews disability-related terminology new to this revision of the HEOA, access to instructional materials for students with print disabilities, changes in access to financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities, model demonstration projects both …
Learning Ideas - Special Education Tips For Foster Parents Who Are Surrogate Parents, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies
Learning Ideas - Special Education Tips For Foster Parents Who Are Surrogate Parents, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies
Education
Surrogate parents are appointed to represent children with disabilities whenever the birth parents or guardian of a child with a disability cannot be identified, located, or when the child is in the custody of the state. They have all the rights of birth parents for educational matters, e.g. permission for evaluation and placement, release information and request for educational hearing. The primary responsibility of surrogate parents is to ensure that children with disabilities are provided with a free, appropriate public education. (Adapted from http://www.maine.gov/doe/special ed/programs/surrogate/index.html)