Sentences with phrase «provides disabled children»

The IDEA, previously known as the Education of the Handicapped Act («EHA») and amended several times since its inception in 1970, mandates federal grants to states to provide disabled children [3] with «a free appropriate public education» in the least restrictive appropriate environment.

Not exact matches

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services and Supports (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

This little gumdrop on wheels provides a glimpse of a world in which anyone, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, can jump in a car and be chauffeured to a predetermined destination.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

What life insurance can do for you: Life insurance can provide for the well - being of a special - needs or disabled child.

During the national contest, televised live to all stores around the country, Twin Peaks announced a major partnership with Folds of Honor, an organization that provides educational scholarships to spouses and children of America's fallen and disabled service members.

A disabled parent will always be provided an opportunity to explain how equipment or other services will assist her in providing and caring for her child.

Disabled children often need systems that provide particularly good support for as long as possible and whose seatbelt clip can not be released by the child.

The association serves 354 disabled people in Crystal Lake alone, providing a variety of programs for children and adults.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Until then, he served as fiscal officer for both CCBA, which provides recreational and educational opportunities to Bronx children and seniors, and CCIA, which provided home health services to the disabled and elderly.

Tree of Hope is passionate about improving the health and lives of sick and disabled children resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland by providing and assisting in the provision of grants to enable them to obtain medical surgery, treatment, therapies and equipment which would not otherwise be available to them.

Most of the children I encountered in these private orphanages were disabled — a key factor behind their abandonment — and in need of medical care, something it is frequently not possible to provide them with due to their rural isolation and the lack of support for these homes (although domestic and international NGOs are increasingly active in this regard).

These would typically be provided to the most medically fragile children, emotionally disturbed or developmentally disabled children, or children in foster care.

21st Congressional District: We interviewed the incumbent, Hiram Monserrate, who, as the father of a disabled child, has concentrated on providing needed equipment and safety provisions for disabled children in schools.

New preclinical research provides support to a drug that has been repurposed to possibly treat a rare and extremely disabling genetic bone disease, particularly in children.

Fourth, the No Child Left Behind Act, which provides sanctions for schools that fail to educate disabled children, creates strong incentives to take advantage of the many waivers now present in the IDEA to excuse disabled students from testing or to modify their testing accommodations in ways that are likely to generate artificially positive results.

A school with a 3rd grade student who was never taught to read would not be able to excuse itself of responsibility merely by classifying the child as learning disabled and providing him with «services.»

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

The Council for Disabled Children will receive # 15 million to help fund the independent supporters service, and a further # 2.3 will go to Parent Carer Forums, which bring parents together to provide support and advice for families.

Finding that, amongst otherwise similar children, those who are racial or ethnic minorities are more likely to be identified as disabled would provide strong evidence of racial bias.

Title VI provides aid for disabled children.

Thirty - five years ago, legislation mandated that public schools had to provide a free, appropriate education for all children, including the disabled.

Section 28 does provide for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials or other such items necessary to give a child with disability «equal opportunities in education», but it could be better worded to extend beyond just equal opportunities in curriculum and academics, to a totally interactive learning process, thereby implying the integration of all students, disabled and non-disabled.

What's more, a # 20million contract with the Council for Disabled Children, in partnership with Contact, was announced, with the aim of providing families and young people with SEND with impartial advice, support and information about the services and support on offer.

«Ableist assumptions become dysfunctional when the educational and developmental services provided to disabled children focus inordinately on the characteristics of their disability to the exclusion of all else, when changing disability becomes the overriding focus of service providers and, at times, parents.»

Nine school voucher programs in seven states specifically provide choice for families with disabled children (see sidebar).

«Disabled teachers provide a positive model of disability to children and adults.

The WJ - III cognitive, with its large variety of subtests, is said to provide the most information in the potential identification of twice exceptional (gifted and learning disabled) children.

I am interested in the needs of gifted children who are also learning disabled or AD / HD, have Asperger's Syndrome or other behavioral or mental health disorders, and I try to work with schools to provide for the unusual combinations of strengths and weaknesses found in these children.»

«That's why we have ensured there is enough money in the system to maintain a network of Sure Start children's centres, protected and expanded the free entitlement to the most disadvantaged two year olds, and provided money for local authorities to provide short breaks for disabled children.»

Writing for the majority in Niehaus v. Huppenthal, Judge Jon W. Thompson wrote, «This program enhances the ability of parents of disabled children to choose how best to provide for their educations, whether in or out of private schools.

EdChoice Kentucky is a coalition focused on educating Kentucky on scholarship tax credit programs, which allow individuals or businesses to receive a tax credit from state taxes when they contribute to qualified non-profit organizations providing tuition assistance for low - and middle - income families and families with developmentally disabled children.

These employees teach Wisconsin's children; take care of elderly and disabled residents; provide safe roads and public transportation; protect the state's natural resources; and help residents recover from illness, among other roles.

With this bill, every Oregon child could be allocated an ESA fund, if they choose to use them, with more dollars provided for each disabled and low - income child.

Availability of damages under Section 504, IDEA, and Section 1983 when district refused to evaluate, classify and provide appropriate services to disabled child; exhaustion, qualified immunity, due process (1995).

(F) providing incentives for whole - school approaches,... positive behavioral interventions and supports,... to reduce the need to label children as disabled in order to address the learning and behavioral needs of such children.

As noted by Judge Cole, the IDEA was amended, effective June 4, 1997, to provide that the Act no longer requires a local educational agency to pay for educational services for a disabled child at a private school «if that agency made a free appropriate public education available to the child and the parents elected to place the child in such private school or facility.»

As long as students are enrolled in public school, they are entitled to protections provided by federal laws that focus on disabled children, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Young carers are children and young people under the age of 18 who provide unpaid care to a family member or friend who is disabled, physically or mentally ill, or misuses substances.

The vehicle is rewarded for providing important features such as ISOFIX anchorages on various seating positions, «i - Size» labeling, a front seat airbag - disabling switch with clear user instructions, integrated child seats etc

This application will screen you for eligibility for Medicaid, a health insurance program provided by the government for low - income children, their parents or caretakers, and disabled adults; in many states, eligibility was extended to low - income adults without children also.

This approach can meet many people's needs, unless you have a permanent need for the insurance, such as providing monthly income to a spouse or a disabled child.

A supplemental program provides benefits to both adults and children who are disabled and living in poverty.

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is a different program that provides income support to disabled children, people age 65 or older, blind, or disabled who have low income and resources.

But if your child is totally and permanently disabled, you can claim them as a dependent regardless of their age and regardless of how much income they have, as long as THEY are not providing more than 1/2 of their own support.

The policies for stay - at - home spouses are geared to people who provide care for children or elderly or disabled family members.

Other benefits include accidental death, which provides benefits when death occurs as a result of an accident, family plan for insured spouse and children, disability waiver of premium, which waives the premium payments if the insured becomes disabled for more than 6 months and mortgage payment disability benefit which offers money to continue making payments if the insured individuals becomes disabled for 60 days or longer.

Monies raised through Noblepets go toward helping to provide local children and veterans who are disabled with specially trained aid dogs to make their lives less difficult.

Domestic workers are individuals hired in a private household by householders to assist and / or supervise individuals such as children, elderly, disabled persons, or provide housekeeping services.