News

LaDDC News: Self-Direction, Therapeutic and Other Services Soon to be Available in Children’s Choice

December 19, 2013

LaDDC News: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

November 20, 2013

LaDDC News: Recruiting Strong Advocates for DD Council Membership

November 19, 2013

LaDDC News: Council’s 2014 Legislative/Advocacy Agenda

November 14, 2013

LaDDC News: Nurse Authorization and Training for Medication Administration and Non-complex Tasks

November 14, 2013

Common Core’s Promise Collides With IEP Realities

November 5, 2013

Special education teachers struggle to make sure individualized education programs align with standards By Christina A. Samuels One of the most promising elements of common academic standards for students with […]

PARCC Adopts Spec. Ed. Testing Policy For Common Core

November 5, 2013

By Christina Samuels UPDATE: PARCC has posted online the materials on accommodations for special education students and common-core testing that it made available to its governing board. Please see memo […]

Social Security, SSI Benefits To Rise In 2014

November 1, 2013

By Michelle Diament Monthly payments will increase next year for people with disabilities receiving benefits from Social Security, including Supplemental Security Income. The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that benefits […]

My Son with Autism “Is Lost in a Sea of standards”

October 31, 2013

By Valerie Strauss Earlier this year I wrote about a boy in Florida who was forced to take a standardized test even though he was born with a brain stem […]

Concerns Raised Over ‘Highly Qualified’ Teachers

October 28, 2013

By Michelle Diament (Updated: October 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM CT) When Congress acted earlier this month to end the government shutdown, lawmakers also extended a provision that advocates contend […]