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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 11 Date: July 6, 2007
The Connecting Point is an email update service from the CORE (Choices, Options, and Resources, Education) Project of Washington PAVE (Parents are Vital in Education). The Connecting Point provides information, resources and updates to help transitioning students and adults with disabilities, their families, schools, and other organizations and agencies understand services and options available for adults needing additional supports.
In This ISSUE:
1) Parents with cognitive/intellectual disabilities - Resources
2) Department of Education judges states on special Education Law
3) Issue Brief -- Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities: A Critical Issue for State Education Agencies
4) Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA) Parent Information and Training Projects Outcome Data (2005-2006)
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1) Parents with cognitive/intellectual disabilities - Resources -
Information or training for parents and/or soon-to-be parents with cognitive impairments who want to keep/ regain custody of their children.
Parents with disabilities -
http://www.developmentaldisability.org/parents_with_disabilities.htm
Through the Looking Glass -
http://lookingglass.org/id_parents/index.php -
http://lookingglass.org/index.php
Curricula for supporting parents with cognitive disabilities -http://www.ct.gov/dcf/lib/dcf/external_affairs/pdf/curricula.pdf
Working with Parents Who Have Cognitive Limitations: Teachers Supporting Student Learning -
http://www.childdevelopmentmedia.com/parents-with-special-needs/90340a.html
The Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, CCDC -
http://www.ccdconline.org/
Parents with disabilities: Abledata -
http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=113573&top=16046&ksectionid=19326
The Internet's One-Stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities -http://www.disabledparents.net/
Celebrating autistic Parents -
http://cap.autistics.org/
Blog on having parent with autism -
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=41
Aspar-Parents -from the children's view -
http://www.aspar.klattu.com.au/
Beach Center: http://www.beachcenter.org/
Parents with ID -
http://www.intellectualdisability.info/lifestages/ds_parent.htm
Guidelines for Identifying Children with Intellectual Disability/Mental Retardation (2000) -
http://www.ctserc.org/id/
From UK:
http://www3.fhs.usyd.edu.au/fssp/parents/our_research/support.htm
Report on International Conference on Parents with Disabilities & their Families -
http://www.disabilityworld.org/04-05_02/news/families.shtml
Parenting with a disability -
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/orchid/pages/parenting.cfm
Learn More about Working with Parents with Cognitive Limitations -
http://www.trainingmatters-nc.org/tm_vol5_no2/tm_vol5no2.htm
Parents with Cognitive Disabilities -
www.dhfs.wisconsin.gov/bdds/b3etn/200305/spbriefing.doc
Source: Monday Morning in Washington DC
2) Department of Education judges states on special Education Law -
Grading states on how well they?re educating children with physical and mental disabilities, the U.S. Education Department Wednesday (June 20) announced that nine states are on track, five are lacking, and the rest lie somewhere in between.
The department based its decision on 20 indicators, such as the high school graduation rates of students with disabilities compared to the graduation rates of the general population, and the percentage of parents who reported schools were encouraging parental involvement. Some states, such as Colorado, were judged harshly because they submitted no data for some indicators.
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=218415
Department of Education?s response to Washington?s Data http://www.ed.gov/fund/data/report/idea/partbspap/2007/wa-aprltr-2007b.pdf
Data Table
http://www.ed.gov/fund/data/report/idea/partbspap/2007/wa-aprtbl-2007b.pdf
3) Issue Brief -- Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities: A Critical Issue for State Education Agencies -
Prepared by the National High School Center.
http://www.betterhighschools.org/docs/NHSC_DropoutPrevention_052507.pdf
[The following is excerpted from the Issue Brief.]
The purpose of this issue brief is to provide information and guidance to state education agencies (SEAs) regarding their accountability for IDEA 2004 legislative mandates in the area of dropout prevention for students with disabilities.
- Students with disabilities drop out of school at significantly higher rates than their peers who do not have disabilities.
- In the 2001-02 school year, only 51 percent of students with disabilities exited school with a standard diploma.
- Arrest rates are relatively high for students with disabilities who drop out. Overall, at least one-third of students with disabilities who drop out of high school have spent a night in jail; this rate is three times that of students with disabilities who have completed high school.
- Of those who do not complete high school, about 61.2 percent are students with emotional/behavioral disabilities, and about 35 percent are students with learning disabilities.
4) Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA) Parent Information and Training Projects Outcome Data (2005-2006) - (This includes data from Washington State CORE Project).
The Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act (TATRA) Project released a publication summarizing the performance of the seven RSA funded Parent Information and Training Programs. The report contains data regarding the number and type of disability of children served through the projects, and the locations of currently funded RSA projects.
To view the report in its entirety, use the following link: Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act (TATRA) Project, Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA) Parent Information and Training Projects Outcome Data 2005-2006: Helping Families Transition to the Future, 2007, http://www.pacer.org/tatra/RSA/RSA.pdf
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