Feds: Most States Failing To Meet Special Ed Obligations

[rockin'robin]

Federal officials indicate that less than half of states are meeting their obligations under special education law.

The U.S. Department of Education says that just 19 states qualified for the “meets requirements” designation for the 2013-2014 school year. The rest of states were classified as “needs assistance” or “needs intervention.”

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Act, the Education Department must evaluate states annually on their efforts to implement special education programs.

The ratings carry significant weight. If a state fails to meet requirements for two or more years, the Department of Education must take enforcement action, which can include a corrective action plan or withholding funds, among other steps.

This is the second year that the Education Department has relied on stricter measures to assess compliance.

Previously, states were graded based on their adherence to procedural requirements like completing evaluations or due process hearings. Now, however, federal officials are taking into account student performance and functional outcomes for kids with disabilities in addition to compliance.

States were notified in letters dated June 30 of their standing.

For the ninth consecutive year, federal officials said that Washington, DC “needs intervention.” The same designation was given to Texas for the second year in a row.

States determined to “meet requirements” for the 2013-2014 school year include Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The Education Department said that the remaining states need assistance.

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/07/14/feds-states-failing/20436/

 

[deafdyke]

Again, these are public schools...These were the schools that were supposed to be The Answer! Just saying "Auditory Verbal and The Inclusion Model is supposed to be AMAZING and cure all the issues" folks.......I kind of wish AVTCIMom was still here......I'd ask her why her theory wasn't working on a full scale.... Then again that's the mom who gushed about how well her kids were doing under the AVT approach (which is supposed to produce very high quality results) but they were still in remedial English.

 

[caz]

sadly the case around the world special ed not getting the funding needed

 

[Bebonang]

Can we stop saying "Special Education". I hate that.

Why can Deaf students have Deaf Education or Deaf program that will provide ASL interpreters and other accommodations?

Special Education only give you oral-only method and probably less or no accommodations for Hard Of Hearing and Deaf students in mainstream schools. There may be some Special Education schools that provide ASL, probably SEE.

Do Deaf children, even HOH children will have a hard time not learning enough education if they had to go through Special Education? Why do Deaf and HOH have to struggle trying to make head and tail if they don't get their ASL and accommodation? It will start all over again like in the past. I am really sick of that. Can hearing people realized that we can not hear the sounds well enough not being able to pick up sounds that we can not detect or hear the sounds? That is why we need ASL in the Deaf program or Deaf Education. Not Special Education. Geeze.

 

[deafdyke]

Can we stop saying "Special Education". I hate that.

Why can Deaf students have Deaf Education or Deaf program that will provide ASL interpreters and other accommodations?

Special Education only give you oral-only method and probably less or no accommodations for Hard Of Hearing and Deaf students in mainstream schools. There may be some Special Education schools that provide ASL, probably SEE.

Do Deaf children, even HOH children will have a hard time not learning enough education if they had to go through Special Education? Why do Deaf and HOH have to struggle trying to make head and tail if they don't get their ASL and accommodation? It will start all over again like in the past. I am really sick of that. Can hearing people realized that we can not hear the sounds well enough not being able to pick up sounds that we can not detect or hear the sounds? That is why we need ASL in the Deaf program or Deaf Education. Not Special Education. Geeze.

Unfortunatly most dhh students are classifed under the umbrella of special ed. It does annoy me.......All they need is a full toolbox of tools and they'll do awesome.

 

[caz]

I was thinking about my daughter she not deaf even so the special education schools she went to no deaf there but many other problems,if deaf it would been part of other things..Deaf schools though are being closed

 

[deafdyke]

I was thinking about my daughter she not deaf even so the special education schools she went to no deaf there but many other problems,if deaf it would been part of other things..Deaf schools though are being closed

Like multiple severe or moderate issues? Yeah, Multi deaf with severe or moderate issues is drasticly different from mild multi dhh......And the reason Deaf Schools are being closed is b/c it's VERY difficult to refer kids to the system..... Very frustrating.

 

[Foxrac]

Again, these are public schools...These were the schools that were supposed to be The Answer! Just saying "Auditory Verbal and The Inclusion Model is supposed to be AMAZING and cure all the issues" folks.......I kind of wish AVTCIMom was still here......I'd ask her why her theory wasn't working on a full scale.... Then again that's the mom who gushed about how well her kids were doing under the AVT approach (which is supposed to produce very high quality results) but they were still in remedial English.

Many deaf schools have poor education quality and many deaf people have to take remedial classes for English when they getting in college.

It did happen to me and many of deaf friends.

 

[Foxrac]

Can we stop saying "Special Education". I hate that.

Why can Deaf students have Deaf Education or Deaf program that will provide ASL interpreters and other accommodations?

Special Education only give you oral-only method and probably less or no accommodations for Hard Of Hearing and Deaf students in mainstream schools. There may be some Special Education schools that provide ASL, probably SEE.

Do Deaf children, even HOH children will have a hard time not learning enough education if they had to go through Special Education? Why do Deaf and HOH have to struggle trying to make head and tail if they don't get their ASL and accommodation? It will start all over again like in the past. I am really sick of that. Can hearing people realized that we can not hear the sounds well enough not being able to pick up sounds that we can not detect or hear the sounds? That is why we need ASL in the Deaf program or Deaf Education. Not Special Education. Geeze.

Special education isn't about deaf and HoH only, it cover all disabilities that impact on learning performance, including blind, DS, mental retardation, autism and other disorders.

If you request an interpreter or accommodation at K-12 school - it is part of special education system.

 

[Foxrac]

I was thinking about my daughter she not deaf even so the special education schools she went to no deaf there but many other problems,if deaf it would been part of other things..Deaf schools though are being closed

In US, there are few deaf schools closed like Nebraska, 2 in NC and 1 in PA.

There are more talk about close more deaf school.

There are some deaf school adopted oral education in separated departments like in Utah. The deaf school in our state adopted classes for students with CI that use oral language.

Most deaf babies receive CI, also Medicaid in my state cover CI now.

ASL has been hijacked by hearing people and most ASL teachers in college are hearing.

 

[deafdyke]

Many deaf schools have poor education quality and many deaf people have to take remedial classes for English when they getting in college.

It did happen to me and many of deaf friends.

I wouldn't say that. Yes, there are some classic horrible Deaf Schools, but a lot of them still have the potential to be good.... The reason they don't consistatly produce REALLY good results, is b/c they're ususally the last option for dhh kids.......Besides the mainstream isn't much either. Most dhh students are in the mainstream, and that hasn't produced a lot of great results. Besides a lot of HEARING students also have to take remedial English in college too!

 

[deafdyke]

Special education isn't about deaf and HoH only, it cover all disabilities that impact on learning performance, including blind, DS, mental retardation, autism and other disorders.

If you request an interpreter or accommodation at K-12 school - it is part of special education system.

Yes, The trouble is that our special ed system is one size fits all. It can give a decent education to kids with learning disabilties, intellectucal disabilties and ADD....But it has a lot of trouble educating low incidence kids like us. The trouble is that special ed in the US isn't exactly great.... Did you know that something like 80% of sped kids could be brought up to grade level? Yet sped is notorious for crappy results! Plus the problem is that dhh and blind/low vision and other low incidence but still can be educated well (as opposed to severe kids who are basicly babysat) tend to be lumped in with general sped....Even sped teachers aren't generally taught how to teach dhh kids.

 

[deafdyke]

In US, there are few deaf schools closed like Nebraska, 2 in NC and 1 in PA.

There are more talk about close more deaf school.

There are some deaf school adopted oral education in separated departments like in Utah. The deaf school in our state adopted classes for students with CI that use oral language.

Most deaf babies receive CI, also Medicaid in my state cover CI now.

ASL has been hijacked by hearing people and most ASL teachers in college are hearing.

Yup Nebraska closed..... Which ones were the ones in NC and PA? The trouble is that they're underutilized.... they generally don't tell parents about them as an option.
Utah is the only State Deaf school with a seperate oral department/track. Almost all the others are comprehensive, or have something like an Auditory Access program for kids who benefit a lot from HA and CI.

 

[deafdyke]

Special education isn't about deaf and HoH only, it cover all disabilities that impact on learning performance, including blind, DS, mental retardation, autism and other disorders.

If you request an interpreter or accommodation at K-12 school - it is part of special education system.

Um why is Down's Syndrome classified as a seperate disabilty? 95% of them fall under the umbrella of intellectcal disabilty..... Plus, it's dying as a dx, since the overwhelming majority of babies prenatally dx with DS are aborted.

 

[Foxrac]

I wouldn't say that. Yes, there are some classic horrible Deaf Schools, but a lot of them still have the potential to be good.... The reason they don't consistatly produce REALLY good results, is b/c they're ususally the last option for dhh kids.......Besides the mainstream isn't much either. Most dhh students are in the mainstream, and that hasn't produced a lot of great results. Besides a lot of HEARING students also have to take remedial English in college too!

I was student at deaf school and I didn't satisfied with overall education at deaf school so I found education is better at hearing school when I went to all classes with hearing students with ASL interpreters.

My math skills were improved a lot at hearing school so I passed Algebra 2 and math portion of graduation exam (AHSGE).

Hearing students take remedial classes? Sure if they don't go to college after graduation from high school or English score on ACT is lower.

 

[Foxrac]

Yes, The trouble is that our special ed system is one size fits all. It can give a decent education to kids with learning disabilties, intellectucal disabilties and ADD....But it has a lot of trouble educating low incidence kids like us. The trouble is that special ed in the US isn't exactly great.... Did you know that something like 80% of sped kids could be brought up to grade level? Yet sped is notorious for crappy results! Plus the problem is that dhh and blind/low vision and other low incidence but still can be educated well (as opposed to severe kids who are basicly babysat) tend to be lumped in with general sped....Even sped teachers aren't generally taught how to teach dhh kids.

Special education isn't about one class size - it cover anything. If students in special education have capability to learn a normal subjects so they will sent to regular class with accommodation so special education support your case for accommodation as you take classes with hearing students.

There are some schools have class that designed for deaf and HoH - teachers are required to be certified to teach deaf and HoH students - it is required by state laws, but some schools broke law, that's problem, even in some cases, deaf school don't follow state requirement as well.

If you can't learn at all so you will stuck in one class with students who can't learn due to intellectual disability. If you can learn so you will send to regular classes with support from special education.

I was in special education at elementary school - the class for all deaf HoH students only.

 

[Foxrac]

Yup Nebraska closed..... Which ones were the ones in NC and PA? The trouble is that they're underutilized.... they generally don't tell parents about them as an option.
Utah is the only State Deaf school with a seperate oral department/track. Almost all the others are comprehensive, or have something like an Auditory Access program for kids who benefit a lot from HA and CI.

Central NC School for the Deaf is already closed long time, also they are talk about close other one - NC School for the Deaf and transfer all students to East NC School for the Deaf. It is cheaper to have 1 deaf school instead of 2-3. I can't recall about PA.

Alabama School for the Deaf adopted separated classes for CI with oral - that's new system - it is required by state regulation that give parents more choice.

 

[Foxrac]

Um why is Down's Syndrome classified as a seperate disabilty? 95% of them fall under the umbrella of intellectcal disabilty..... Plus, it's dying as a dx, since the overwhelming majority of babies prenatally dx with DS are aborted.

Like deaf and HoH, DS is part of disability class.

That's not true about women in southern states - they prefer to have child with DS over abortion, also it is very hard to get abortion here.

 

[KarissaMann05]

In US, there are few deaf schools closed like Nebraska, 2 in NC and 1 in PA.

There are more talk about close more deaf school.

There are some deaf school adopted oral education in separated departments like in Utah. The deaf school in our state adopted classes for students with CI that use oral language.

Most deaf babies receive CI, also Medicaid in my state cover CI now.

ASL has been hijacked by hearing people and most ASL teachers in college are hearing.

You can thank to medical technology...

Oh well.

 

[Foxrac]

You can thank to medical technology...

Oh well.

Most deaf babies under hearing parents and they have no idea about deaf culture, also doctors give biased information too - say you can get CI and go to oral education - no more ASL.

Honest with you, I'm not happy about be deaf (I don't accept to identified myself as deaf) due to communication barrier and shaming by many people that see me as not normal, also Usher Syndrome make worse. I had CI and oral education but it didn't work out - I was very left behind from oral education so I had to take education with sign language.

The discrimination is still big issue after 25 years of ADA law and many deaf people are unemployed, but extremely high for deafblind (including Usher Syndrome). I don't want to depends on government money and trapping in warehouse. Similarly, the discrimination is still issue for black people after CRA passed in 1964, also there are some white people refuse to hire them so having anti-discrimination laws isn't working out but it may enable to sue someone to get money or give an employment.

Gallaudet isn't working out for me due to psychological issues (PTSD and possibly autism) so I prefer to take online courses but I don't have much passionate about future employment.