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| | The holiday season is a time for family togetherness, community, and friendship when we enjoy parties and fun celebrations. Unfortunately, children who struggle with social and behavioral problems can feel lonely and excluded during this happy time. | | LD Online | | December 2008 |
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| | With the first half of the school year almost complete, I think it's safe to say that everyone (parents, educators, students) is looking forward to some holiday time away from the classroom. But for students who will be finishing high school in the spring, the next few weeks are likely to be filled with paperwork and planning, meetings with guidance counselors, conversations with college admissions personnel, and hours of online research. | | National Center for Learning Disabilities | | December 2008 |
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| | On Friday February 6, 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor released the first official data on the employment status of persons with disabilities. In January 2009, the percent of people with disabilities in the labor force was 23.1. The unemployment rate for those with disabilities was 13.2 percent. | | Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | | February 2009 |
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| | BOISE, ID – Vice President Joe Biden announced Kareem Dale as Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy. Dale, who is partially blind, will have direct access to the President in this role and he will coordinate the Administration’s efforts to see that people with disabilities are on a level playing field with all Americans. This is the first time a president has had a special assistant focused exclusively on disability policy. | | White House Press Release | | February 2009 |
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| | As policy makers push to include more special-education students into general classrooms, factions are increasingly divided. Advocates for the disabled say special-education students benefit both academically and socially by being taught alongside typical students. Some teachers and administrators have been less supportive of the practice, saying that they lack the training and resources to handle significantly disabled children. | | Wall Street Journal | | January 2008 |
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| | No general instructional model can be recommended for all students. Nonetheless, one can assume that certain general guiding principles for teaching students with learning disabilities do exist and that effective interventions include components that capitalize on these principles. | | Pacific Daily News | | January 2009 |
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| | The reports look at different ingredients essential to understanding how math is best studied, how math learning happens at different stages of development, and how teachers can be prepared to meet the instructional needs of (all) students. | | National Center for Learning Disabilities | | January 2009 |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to add an special education case to its docket for this term. In this case, the justices will return to an issue they deadlocked over in their last term: whether parents in a special education dispute with a school district may be reimbursed for "unilaterally" placing their child in a private school when that child has never received special education services from the district. | | Education Week | | January 2009 |
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| | The Center for Studying Disability Policy at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., announced a new bimonthly lunchtime seminar series aimed at providing policymakers and others with an opportunity to hear about the latest disability policy research findings. Disability experts from the center will present recently released findings and lead discussions about their policy implications. | | Mathematica Policy Research | | July 2008 |
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| | The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) has published the results of its 2007 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). The survey provides state-level data on over 100 child health indicators, including questions related to early childhood, risk for developmental delays, children with an IFSP/IEP (0-5 years) and more. In addition, they provide state rankings on such issues as Risk of Developmental or Behavioral Problems and Developmental Screening. | | The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health | | May 2009 |
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