Catholic+School+Special+Education

Ramsey Edit: Katie Brady, Teresa Zienkewicz, Pam McGown, Crystal Dillner, Alicia Garoutte
Pam's Articles: =**Catholic high schools: can inclusion work without significant publicly-funded resources?**=

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6936/is_1_8/ai_n28246144/ = More Catholic schools reaching out to special-needs students =

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204798.html =Promoting Special Education in Catholic School=

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601800.html

The Delivery of Special Education Services in Catholic Schools: One Hand Gives, the Other Hand Takes Away
http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/catholic/article/view/163 (click the full pdf version)

The State of Special Education in Catholic Schools
http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/catholic/article/view/716 (click the full pdf version)

Crystal's Articles:

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 * Title: Including and serving students with special needs in Catholic schools:a report of practices. (FOUCUS SECTION)
 * Title: Supporting children with disabilities in the Catholic schools
 * Title: The status of Special Education Services in Catholic High School: Attributes, Challenges, and Needs

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[] [] (only the abstract, The only place I can find the whole article is BC database.)
 * Title: A rationale for special education in Catholic schools
 * Title: The state of special education in Catholic schools
 * Title: IDEA Requirements for Children with Disabilities in Faith-Based Schools

Alicia's Articles:

"More Catholic Schools Reaching Out to Special-Needs Students" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204798.html

"Renewing our commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium" http://www.nccbuscc.org/bishops/schools.pdf "Parochial Schools Beginning to Embrace Special Ed" http://hamptonroads.com/2010/05/parochial-schools-beginning-embrace-special-ed

"Catholic School Program here a Model for Special Education Nationwide" http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20031117stanthony1117p3.asp

"A Rationale for Special Education in Catholic Schools" http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6936/is_4_9/ai_n28381715/

"School Choice can help Special -Ed and keep the Catholic-School option alive in the inner city" http://www.city-journal.org/2009/nytom_school-choice.html

"Catholic School Children with Disabilities" []

Katie's Articles: Our Vocation: To Serve All [] Private School participants in Federal Programs (PAM...this one is about the laws, if you need it) http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED500329.pdf Developing a Model of Special Education Program in a Diocese @http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED420144.pdf

Serving Special Needs Students in Philidelphia []

Learning to Include: Lessons Learned from a High School without Special Education Services []

Teresa's Articles:

"Pacesetter in Inclusion" Catholic Diocese of Wichita, Journey: Ministries with Persons with Disabilities Newsletter. Volume 7 Number 1

'Special' Education for Everyone St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. The Vernacular. Volume XVII Number 1

"He aint heavy; he's my brother, my classmate, my friend Charlie." []

"Catholic Inclusion Program" []

Ramsey edit: Can you provide titles for all your sources on the wiki? Without too much trouble. Looks like you are making good progress.

Crystal.. for all of your articles its asking for a log in thing? aka im having trouble viewing your articles. any thoughts? I got them all from BC database but it was not allowing me to copy and paste the website. I googled the articles.

Alicia Garoutte ED 226 Rough Draft September 25, 2010


 * THIS IS MY ROUGH DRAFT FOR MY PART OF THE DIFFICULTIES...I DON'T GET HOW TO CITE MY SOURCES IN MY PAPER AT ALL SO I REALLY NEED HELP! IN WORD FORMAT, THIS SECTION ADDS UP TO 4 PAGES...LEMMIE KNOW YALLS FEEDBACK!**

It is, by law, required for public schools to provide a free and appropriate education for students, including those with disabilities. When it comes to private schools, more specifically private Catholic schools, this is not the case. There are many difficulties encountered when families try to obtain the accommodations needed for their child who has a disability in the realm of private schools. There are difficulties that the parents face, the student faces, the peers around the child with disability face, and the schools themselves face. These difficulties will each be addressed and discussed in the following pages. The parents of students who have varying disabilities have many issues they must deal with when trying to obtain the necessary accommodations for their child. One prevalent hardship is that of financing the education. “Catholic parish schools operate on shoe-string budgets” (Vegh, 2010) and this does not work in the favor of the parents who need to place their children in a program that can provide what their disabled child needs. The very first step when enrolling a student with disabilities is to obviously identify their disability. In the Norfolk Christian Schools located in Norfolk, they “channeled special-needs students to a specialty consultant” where “the parents of those children paid an extra fee to use the service” (Vegh, 2010). This is not a cheap service and for some families it is very difficult to afford to use this. Along with e xtra services such as the one previously mentioned, the price paid for just placing their child in the private school setting is a hefty price. According to a study done by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2002), “parentally-placed private school students are not entitled to special education and related services…parents must find a way to pay for the remaining 50 percent of service costs. Of the 50 percent not paid by the state, local or IDEA funds, 68 percent of the cost is assumed in the cost of regular tuition charged by the Catholic schools and 30 percent is paid by parents in addition to their regular tuition at the Catholic schools” (2002). This is a big chunk of change. It doesn’t say that the parents have to pay 30 percent of the total tuition. It says IN ADDITION TO which means that along with paying the hefty tuition that the private schools require, the parents have to pay 30 percent more than parents who enroll students without disabilities have to. Many families can’t afford this and it enables them from placing their child where they want. There is also a program that is referred to as The Child Find process and it is used in identifying any child who has signs of a disability. This sounds like a good program that could be helpful for parents but in all reality it is not. “Catholic school parents and staff have long reported difficulty in accessing the Child Find process” (2002). Startling statistics show that “six percent of Catholic school students referred for Child Find were denied an evaluation” (2002). How are parents going to utilize services like that of the above if children are being denied? This represents one of the many frustrations parents experience when trying to fund their child’s education. Another difficulty present when referring to Special Education in Catholic schools would be that of facilities. In many cases, because of the fact that private schools have very tight budgets, they only cater to those students who have specific disabilities. In one case, a “school [was] equipped to serve children with only light or moderate disabilities” (Vegh, 2010). Every student deserves the education they need and when a student is held back from a private Catholic education because their disability is too “severe” which in all reality it really isn’t is very sad. A student’s potential shouldn’t be bottled up and put on the back shelf because their disability is just over the cut-off of light or moderate. “Catholic schools now offer support for students with learning disabilities such as attention-deficit disorder or Asperger syndrome. The portion equipped to enroll students with intellectual disabilities, historically defined as those scoring below 70 or 75 on an IQ test is still small” (Chandler, 2010). This statement again puts a cap on what disabilities can be accepted. Statements like this are discouraging to parents because it makes them feel as if they have nowhere to turn and that they have to settle. An institution found in Pittsburgh states that “the program’s goal is to promote independence. Teaching methods that organize and structure learning are used mainly for students with autism, though they work well for all students” (Boseman, 2003). The fact that they already segregated their program into accommodating those students who have strictly have autism and not ALL disabilities hinders their program. They do state that it works for all students but why woul d they mention those who specifically have autism if that wasn’t their focus? Principles in Catholic institutions should focus, according to Thomas J. Long and Merylann J. Schuttloffel, on the effects the decision to turn away those students with certain disabilities would have. “What message would students, teachers, and parents receive if this child were turned away? What message would each decision send to the prospective student’s family and the student about his or her value as a human being? What does each decision convey about what it means to be a student in school?” (Long & Schuttleoffel, 2006). Being able or not being able to facilitate those with disabilities affects not only the parents, but the student and those around who observe the decisions being made. According to Amy Kallenbach, the development director for Christ the King in Norfolk, “Accommodations for special-needs students [should be regarded] as no different from the extra opportunities the school provides talented and gifted children” (Vegh, 2010). If schools can make budgets to facilitate those students who are gifted, they can most certainly do the same for those who come with disabilities. John Paul II stated that “every person ha[s] basic rights that are inalienable, inviolable, and indivisible and that those with disabilities should be welcomed by society and according to their abilities, integrated into it as full members”(Long & Shuttloffel, 2006). Students with special needs shouldn’t be sidelined due to inadequate facilities or difficulties that their parents run into with money or various processes. It is “the responsibility of the whole Catholic community to continue to strive toward the goal of making Catholic elementary and secondary schools available, accessible, and affordable to all Catholic parents and their children, including those who are poor and middle class, and to look for ways to include and better serve young people who have special educational needs” (Long & Schuttloffel, 2006). I could not agree more.

[[file:Abstract.docx]][[file:conclusion.docx]][[file:intro.docx]][[file:paper final.doc]] (pams section)
(Teresa's Section)

(crystal's section)

(Draft as of 9/30/10)

(This is my revised section from your comments...could you please look at my citations Ramsey and let me know if i am still misinterpreting the data from the case study i am using as a reference? Thank you! -Alicia)

(Here are the revisions for my section of the paper... we need to make some revisions on the intro.. not sure who should do that but.. just thought I would throw it out there. - Pam)

(Here are my revisions of my paper- Crystal)

Pam- I edited the intro...you can take a look and change anything you think needs it, also the abstract needs more info, I think we should meet and work on that as a group though, if possible. ~Katie

Here is the most recent updated draft! It is ready to be graded to possibly increase our grade. Thanks Ramsey!

This is one complete interview i've done. -Alicia

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