The National Council on Disability released this new report today that you may find of interest:
www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2008/doc/RehabilitationTransitions.doc
The US Department of Education has developed a Toolkit on Universal Design for Learning, available at http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/UDL/index.asp, thanks to the hard work of the UDL Task Force and Ricki Sabia, from the National Down Syndrome Society Policy Center. Thanks, Ricki!
The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation Public Policy Fellowships announces the availability of public policy fellowships in Washington for parents and for professionals with interests in intellectual disability. The deadline is August 15, 2008. Visit the website (http://www.jpkf.org) for application forms.
Full-page ads in the NY Times and the Washington Post yesterday from Julian Bond, T. Berry Brazelton, James Comer, Linda Darling-Hammond, and others announced “A Broader, BOLDER Approach to Education,” http://www.boldapproach.org/bold_approach_full_statement.pdf, a statement that refutes both the strategy and the philosophy of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
We are pleased to announce that our 5th biennial Research in the Rockies conference, the only research conference devoted exclusively to educational research involving students who are blind or have low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, or who have significant support needs, is scheduled for October 15-18, 2008, in downtown Denver. This year we will be training participants in the use of the SEELS and NLTS2 databases. Mark your calendars! More information will be available online soon.
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