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Don't miss the April 16th Meeting. Brian
Touchette from the Delaware Department of Education (DOE) will
present IEP Changes Coming Next Year: What You Need to
Know. Download the April
meeting flyer for more details.
Dr. Tynan from the AI DuPont Hospital for
Children spoke at our January 9th meeting. We don't have the minutes
written up yet but as promised here are his two presentations
from the meeting.
- Coping with the Crisis in Child's Mental
Health
- Supporting
Children with Challenging Behavior at School: Universal and
Selective Interventions
Have you ever wondered if the DAPA program
is right for a student you know? View this great webinar, Dispelling DAPA Myths on what kinds of
students should be in the DAPA program. It may take a couple minutes
to load but it is extremely informative.
We collected a series of articles discussing the Effect of Inclusion on Nondisabled
Students on the Inclusion area of the
BSNPTA Forum page.
If you haven't signed up for the BSNPTA email list, here are a
few of the more informative newsletters:
Response to
Intervention (RTI) Nov 2007
Autism Resources Mar 2007
Inclusion and
non-disabled Students Oct 2006
NCLB and IDEA Working Together Sep
2006
DSTP Results Sep 2006
Read the Brandywine School Board Resolution Supporting ALL
Students that passed unanimously on October 20th, 2006. Thanks
to all the parents who came out in support.
The Special
Ed Report from Stetson and Associates is available off
this site by clicking
HERE!
Click
here for the appendix that
covers the Specialized Services for students with Moderate to Severe
Disabilities.
To see the presentation that reviewed the report,
given by Stetston and Assocoates on May 1st, click here.
Alternatively, the report can be downloaded off the
Brandywine School District site by clicking here. If
you attended one of Stetson's Inclusion training sessions, or if
you'd like copies of the handouts, you can download hand outs from
the three full days - just be a little patient, the pdf files are
big. (day1, day2, day3)
The Brandywine School District has
completed it's next 5 year Strategic Plan. For the first time, there is a
Special Education subcommitte particpated and providing input. The
Report on Special Education from Stetson
Associates was used as input for the Strategic Plan. Check out
the District's Strategic Plan Taskforce page for
up-to-date information - including copies of all the External Program Reviews.
Wrightslaw Alumni will recognize and understand this
Bell
Curve for printing and taking to an IEP
meeting.)
The beginning
with school year 2005-2006, the BSNPTA meeting minutes,
including handouts from the presenters are available in the BSNPTA News Section of the Forum
page:
Oct 2007 - Making the Curriculum Accessible to ALL
Students - Mark Holodick, Beth Mineo and Lynne
Robinson
Nov 2006 - Functional Behavioral Assessments: Tools
to address behavior - Dr. Doug DiRaddo and Dr. Kristen
Hetzel
Oct 2006 - Options after High School - expert
panel
Sep 2006 - Back to School Success Strategies -
ADHD Coaches and tutors Nicole Sloan, Pat Wood and Keith
McGoan
Mar 2006 - Behavior: Doug Tynan
Feb 2006 - Policy Maker's Town
Hall: Local Public Officials
Jan 2006 - Social
Skills: Cindy Schneider
Nov 2005 - Procedural
Safeguards: Charles Weiner and Eliza
Hurst
Oct 2005 - IEPs: Brian
Touchette and Louann Vari from Delaware
DOE
Did
you know our Forum page is full of detailed information on a number
of topics and is growing all the time?
Check
it out by clicking on the BSNPTA Forum button on the left side of any page
on this site, or click on a topic below.
IEP
Reading
Autisim and
Asperger's
Conferences and
Training
Inclusion
Assistive
Technoloy
Transition, Graduation, Work, Post
Secondary
Social Skills and
Behavior
BSNPTA News Archive
Gifted and
Disabled
Testing: NCLB, DSTP,
Accomodations, etc.
ADHD and ADD
Learning Disabilities
Help with Homework, Studying and
Tests
Brain, Neurology and
Disorders
Public Policy
Handwriting and
Composition
Co-Teaching and TAM
Classes
General News and
Information
The Delaware Department of Education (DOE)
issued a Focused Monitoring report on the Brandywine School District's Special Education
program in July of 2005. See the posting on the BSNPTA Forum page
for an explanation.
Read about Delaware's mandatory Autism Surveillance and Registry System
that makes it illegal for any doctor or hospital to withhold the
name of a patient with autism or "suspected" of having
autism.
Class Action Lawsuit in
Pennsylvania relates to children who have been denied FAPE in
regular classrooms with individualized services or those who have
been placed in regular classrooms WITHOUT the appropriate
supports.
Read
Full Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action
Lawsuit:
Read Settlement Agreement
Read Story
about a Family Who Helped Bring the Lawsuit
Read the Government
Accountability Office (GOA) report on Children with Autism. This report
tracks the 500% increase in children receiving services for Autism
over the last decade and includes information average cost/student
for services provided.
Is it possible to get a High School Diploma without
passing State Testing? It happens all the
time!
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