education and disability

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Comment by Charles-A. Rovira 18 hours ago

If you got any kind of document from a board of ed you can use it. Wield it like a weapon. :-)

I graduated high-school in 1970 and had to try to get my paperwork from Lachine, Québec, Canada and I know for a fact that the high school had been turned onto a bunch of things before being leveled in the 1990s.

I wrote to the city's board of education and they dug it up and mailed it to the college I was applying to in 2005, 35 years after I had graduated and years before the internet and the web.

And start writing down your horror stories.

SERIOUSLY!

Its great catharsis and a relief to get it off your chest and it will give you something tangible, something you can work at making into a book and a legacy.

I firmly believe that everybody's got a book in them and some are more fascinating to read than others.

Yours would be one of the fascinating kind.

It might take a few rewrites, a lot of editing and some perspective that having actually written your book brings, but I'm sure that I would enjoy the tears that went into it. The tears of pain, frustration, relief and finally triumph.

Comment by Lisa 20 hours ago

I have learning issues big time.
BY the schools I was STUCK in special Ed, but my parents i wasn't wanted.
I can't say I learned ANYTHING! they actully held me back in ways.
I could tell ya all the horrors i went through at home!

NONE cared about me.

IS there somewhere to HELP me figure out what to do now? Where to go?

I was EVEN abused by my TEACHERS!
well u said ssay something about the NO child left behind.. well that went in effect LONG after I LEFT SCHOOL! i graduated in 1991! I can't use that!

Comment by Charles-A. Rovira 23 hours ago

Tell those people that you were left out of the system because you were blind.

As such you are to be treated the same as someone who was home schooled.

Whoever told you that was, uh, lets be polite here, uh, ill informed of your options and rights under the law.

Tell them to:
look at the Federal "No Child Left Behind" law,
look up the specific state education bill for provisions about Home Schooling
look up the specific state education bill for provisions about disabled access
look up the FISA and other sources for grants (not loans, grants,) so you could get the schooling for FREE.

Good luck to you and get the help that available to you, if you know enough to ask for it. (Sadly, your mom had no IQ and now you're stuck playing catch up.)

Ask for what we are paying our taxes to provide for you after all.

The problem with these systems is that they all depend on our asking for them. Anything else we consider unpalatable governmental intrusion.

Since US citizens don't trust their government, the state is let off easy because all they have to do is shut the hell up and you're out the tax money you've paid and the agencies that are supposed to provide something don't have to, unless you ask.

Momof3 ... Sick 'em.

Go and demand what our tax dollars are being collected for.

Comment by Momof3 1 day ago

Hi, I have problems with the educational system. When I was in school they told my mom I had no IQ and I was mentally retarded and could never learn. They also told my mom to put me away in a mental hospital which she did. I am only blind. But I guess they did not ever figure that out.
So I never got thru school of any kind.
I want to go back to get my GED just have been told since I have had no school that I would not beable to past the GED test.
Michelle

Comment by Lisa 1 day ago

well money will always and has always been an issue.
Inow am on disability and get 461.00 a month.
i took some adult ed classes b4 i met my bf and I don't know where to start again.
i actully miss it, specailly algibra.. i loved it.

Comment by Charles-A. Rovira 1 day ago

You can always go to college Lisa.

Its a question of time and money, your time and your money. The more you're willing to put up, and to put up with, the better the education you can get.

Just don't go there expecting miracles unless you're willing to perform some yourself.

They're only people after all.

But you'll certainly be a better and more knowledgeable human being for the experience.

Comment by Lisa 1 day ago

I would LOVE to go to collage! I have learning issues. I was always told i can't cause of being stupid (my mother).
I am38 is there any hope for me?

Comment by Nicole F on September 17, 2009 at 2:58am

Hi everyone,

I joined this site yesterday and am thrilled. Finally a place online that has people like me!

I have had personal issues with the educational system since I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disability when I was 11 (now 23) and had to sue my school district. From this experience, though, I gained knoweledge of support organizations, etc. and I also understand the psychological impact having a disability can have on a student. I am always willing to share my knoweledge.

I also mentor students with learning disabilities as it can be lonely and frightening to feel like you're the only one out there. I am a motivational speaker in order to teach others what life is like with an ld to hopefully inspire and sensitize.

Finally, I have a background in Disability Studies that helps when explaining how it is not always the person's fault that the System doesn't work for them. *cough*

Anyways, if anyone would like to talk please do not hesitate to message me. I also am the creator if the Educational Therapy group here. ET helps reshape processing issues that can affect everything from reading, memory, speaking and hearing.

Comment by Sean Tomlinson on September 12, 2009 at 2:01am

Hi everyone..... For those of you who do not know this, I am a Law student ( third year) at UGA, who is leaning toward disability advocacy, I went to Law school because of the way I was being treated by the insurance companies and the SSA. Anyway, my point is; I wrote a rather long research paper a couple of years ago on Academic Accommodations under IDEA, IEP, and the ADA for Patients with RSD/CRPS. If someone has a question, I can probably dig the paper up and maybe answer a question or two for someone.

Comment by Charles-A. Rovira on August 25, 2009 at 3:52pm

"disability related education issues" Hmm. Sounds like were I am at.

I am going back to college, St. Peter's College, and I just attended an event which will take me several hours to recover from.

It was held on the top floor of an outdoor parking lot, about an acre of blazing hot concrete, WITH NO SHADE AT ALL.

No power plugs (but my remote audio recording equipment can work off of batteries,)
no umbrellas (except over some electric cars that had been donated to the school,)
not enough liquid refreshments (they all disappeared into sweat from the broiling students,)
the food consisted of hot dogs and hamburgers, both overdone and tasteless, on some things which are supposed to be buns (both made with enough gluten, beached flour and starch, condiments out of jars and narry a vegetable in sight, (it neither fresh nor nutritious.)

I have MS and any heat makes me weak.

I am like a dishrag right now, sitting in my home office clinging to the air conditioner because the school event planner the school uses deserves to be unemployed.

I am absolutely dripping with sweat, once I got cooled off enough to even be able to sweat.

Some event planner is about to get an earful.

He will be taught that there are certain standards to event planning, I will even list the websites where he could have gone to learn what they are, and he met none of them.

I am absolutely disgusted with the entire event.

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