Sentences with phrase «needs kids -lsb-»

My sweet sis and her hubby adopted three special needs kids from India.

High conflict transitions are particularly stressful for immature and special needs kids.

You don't know how much longer you can tolerate your demanding, ungrateful, high - needs kids.

«That's an indication that the schools are doing a decent job under difficult circumstances with a lot of high needs kids per pupil,» Burris said.

It's even harder for single moms, moms with special needs kids, moms with kids who are sick, moms who are sick or who have a partner who is sick, moms without financial resources, moms without solid social / -LSB-...]

He is also the co-author with Regina Kupecky, MAT, LSW of Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (2009), Parenting Adoptive Adolescents (2009) and Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids (2009).

* enabled needy birthparents to attend GED classes; * helped soften the blow of financial loss in the wake of disrupted adoption plans; * assisted with burial costs in cases of fetal demise; * offered assistance to Abrazo families affected by hurricanes and natural disasters; * sponsored Mother's Day mailings and our biannual Homecoming event in honor of our loving birthmoms; * subsidized unanticipated medical and equipment costs for families with special needs kids; * powered Santa's sleigh for the forwarding of donated Christmas stockings to indigent families; * sent parents of special needs kids out on much - needed dinner dates; * provided filled goody - bags for birthfamilies and adoptive families attending agency reunions; * sponsored an in - office wedding for a birthmom and a birthdad who was about to deploy; * offset unexpected legal expenses in contested cases; * subsidized Camp Abrazo costs for disadvantaged attendees; * enabled adoptions of hard - to - place children;

Play therapy is the hottest treatment trend for special needs kids, and you've never seen anyone play like Aaron.

I have been affiliated with this organization for 11 years, as a parent of 2 special needs kids and as a volunteer.

If you've worked with special needs kids, then call attention to this too.

I 100 % recommend this place to anyone that needs their kids to take drivers ed.

Which means getting a term life insurance child rider for special needs kids can be extremely difficult.

However, this also means their child may outlive them, and that's a scenario most parents of special needs kids don't like to think about.

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He wrote in his post, «The main objective is to use animal therapy to reach out to those who are in need of help, especially to the special needs kids, elderly, and et cetera.»

This Conference is a weekend away for Moms of special needs kids, created by other Moms of special needs kids.

DeVos» limited understanding of IDEA seems to presage a global ignorance of the role of the federal government in ensuring accountability for special needs kids, as well as other traditionally - disenfranchised groups like low - income students, students of color, and English - language learners.

The rights of special needs kids are so urgent, American law decrees (see Endrew F. v. Douglas County), that courts must invert the Jeffersonian model.

«[LCFF] represented a massive equity investment — we were talking about actually making sure that the resources were generated [for] high - needs kids,» said Samantha Tran of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy group in California.

-LSB-...] to see that CCSS can actually be a useful tool as we create new lessons for special needs kids.

However, the gap between N.J. special needs kids and the rest of the country is getting smaller.

An umbrella group for the city's charter schools says its members outperformed district schools on state exams this year - but admits they serve fewer special - needs kids.

The case, DeBoom v. Bergeson, was filed in November 2008 on behalf of three families with special needs kids: the DeBooms, Apodacas and Hamiltons.

(In New York City, charters often have half as many special needs kids.)

So in other words, tax money is diverted for what are essentially private schools — which do NOT take special needs kids.

To end Washington's discrimination against special needs kids in religious schools — and to vindicate the rights of parents to choose their children's schools from a wide array of options, including public, private and religious schools — the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter filed a federal constitutional lawsuit challenging the special education ban.

Children in religious schools were forced to travel off - site to some «nonsectarian» location to receive services, which was burdensome and disruptive for special needs kids, and which often rendered the services useless.

[xxxi] These are the very provisions the state relies upon today to deny special education services to Michael, Rachael, Skyler, and other special needs kids whose parents choose religious schools.

How are you growing your special - needs kids?

The benefits of technology for special needs kids are well known.

Without clearer regulations, funds intended to help close the achievement gap will simply roll into more general school funding streams and fail to support high - needs kids.

«I'm not great with special needs kids.»

She is setting up a nonprofit organization aimed at helping special - needs kids get the education they are entitled to.

But just last week, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) released a damning report showing that more than 60,000 special needs kids in city schools are not receiving all of the services they need and are entitled to under law.

And 5 percent of the city's special needs kids are receiving none of the services they need — that's more than 8,500 kids.

And in a year when the United Federation of Teachers is making its «top legislative priority» a bill that would impose sanctions on charters that do not educate the same proportions of special needs kids compared to district averages (even though many district schools don't meet these same standards), one might expect the union would have something to say about the disturbing findings in this report.

They're assured that charters won't be engaging in the systematic inclusion or exclusion of kids, that special needs kids and English language learners will be equally served and embraced by everyone, and that both district and charter schools get opportunities to learn from another.

Parents of special - needs kids (I am one) struggle everyday to find that elusive path that leads to inclusion in this wide world.

«That way, people could see the differences and explain if there were more special needs kids in a particular class.

Or some advocates» obsession with a «least - restrictive environment» for special - needs kids, regardless of the disruption that mainstreaming might cause for everyone else.

It will change not because the feds will continue investigating discrimination against these children, as they found recently in a virtual Ohio charter, but because the smarter charter and virtual operators will find that they can succeed with special needs kids when others have failed.

No doubt, there have been major problems with school choice for special needs kids that have been widely written about.

And I believe nearly every negative story — well, other than the purely politically driven articles — about how some special needs kids are excluded from schools of choice.

Particularly in an age of increasingly difficult academic standards and emphasis on test scores, taking on moderate to severe special needs kids could be like marrying someone with emotional «baggage.»

It has a real combination of weird humor which I love and there's a lot [of references] to special needs kids with whom I have worked with a lot over the years.

Im a sweet and care person I take care of kids for a living I babysit and help out with special needs kids at my church and love kids and love dogs and I use to take care of my sister who was in a wheelchair she was special needs and live with my mom and my sister and love god so much

We also have miniature horses and use them with special needs kids so they can show in 4 - H and county fair!

Special - Needs Kids Eat Right: Strategies to Help Kids on the Autism Spectrum Focus, Learn, and Thrive by Judy Converse, MPH, RD, LD has lab testing one might consider, how to implement certain diets (GF / CF, SCD), a list of preferred forms of supplements, she explains why and how.

Special - needs kids were shortchanged by contractors that had figured out how to game the system.»

P.S. 811 parents said most of the kids at the school live in Harlem school districts 3, 4, 5 and 6 and traveling downtown would be difficult for special needs kids, some of whom have travel restrictions due to their disability.