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U.S. Department of Education Takes Action to Deliver Equity for Students with Disabilities

Education 02/25/2016 admin 0 Comments

ED Data Demonstrates Need to Address Widespread Disparities in Special Education The U.S. Department of Education took a critical step today toward addressing widespread disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities, proposing a new rule to improve equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The nation’s special education law, IDEA, aims to ensure fairness in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities. Yet disparities persist, and students of […]

Six Organizations Receive Grants from the Special Hope Foundation Evidence-Based Cost and Quality of Care Research Grants for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Recent & Relevant 02/24/2016 admin 0 Comments

Six Organizations Receive Grants from the Special Hope Foundation Evidence-Based Cost and Quality of Care Research Grants for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (Palo Alto, CA, February 22, 2016) — The Special Hope Foundation and the Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry are pleased to announce that six organizations serving the healthcare needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were selected to receive funding for their research projects. These grants will support a variety of […]

The Direct Support Workforce Crisis: A Parent’s Perspective – Part Two

Featured Topics, Parenting 02/23/201602/19/2016 admin 0 Comments

BY GAIL FRIZZELL For parents to be confident that their children could survive in this world without them, we would need a direct support workforce, of adequate number, trained to provide the supports our children need to be safe, healthy, and happy. My 30-year-old daughter, Lauren, loves her home in a town just a 20-minute drive from Mom’s. It meets all of her wants and needs and has a lovely view from her bedroom window […]

The Oxygen of Freedom

President Message 02/22/201602/19/2016 admin 0 Comments

I am pleased to announce a year-long focus on the various uses of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the pages of Exceptional Parent Magazine and on our new, expanded website. This focus will include editorial contributions from well recognized physicians, clinicians and scientists along with embedded videos and a series of Ask the Expert interactions where our readers, therapists, physicians, athletes, coaches and trainers can interact with experts in the field of HBOT. As always, all […]

President Obama’s 2017 Budget Expands Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Recent & Relevant 02/21/201602/20/2016 admin 0 Comments

Meeting Our Greatest Challenges: The President’s Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Expanding Opportunities for People with Disabilities Under the President’s leadership, we have turned our economy around and created 14 million jobs. Our unemployment rate is below five percent for the first time in almost eight years. Nearly 18 million people have gained health coverage as the Affordable Care Act has taken effect. And we have dramatically cut our deficits by almost three-quarters and set our […]