Florida health care regulators say the reasons behind the placement of hundreds of severely disabled children in nursing homes comes down to money.
In , my former colleague Carol Marbin Miller at the Miami Herald writes about how these decisions are made and gives us an inside look at the hearings held to decide that these children shouldn鈥檛 be raised at home.
This entire saga has troubled me from my perch here at On Special Education. I鈥檝e learned so much in the nearly two years I鈥檝e written about students with disabilities for 澳门跑狗论坛, including, in this case, a lot I didn鈥檛 know about federal and state government roles in the care of children with especially severe disabilities.
I鈥檝e learned how iPads and other tablet computers can change the lives of some students with disabilities. I reported about how private school vouchers for students with disabilities may be politically motivated鈥攁nd have nothing to do helping special needs kids. Somehow, I managed to get deep into the intricacies of special education spending rules, including how are still wrestling over a major penalty issued just a few months ago.
As readers, over the last year you looked most at my writing about autism, including of this disability. That issue won鈥檛 be resolved even when the manual where that definition resides is published later this year, I鈥檓 sure. And going forward, neither will there be easy resolution of , something you were also highly interested in.
I won鈥檛 be writing about those students or teachers in particular anymore, however. Starting now, my focus is shifting to writing exclusively about student health, discipline, and safety and school climate. These areas have certainly collided in my time here at 澳门跑狗论坛, most at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.鈥攊n which there are questions about whether the shooter had a disability or mental health disorder. You can find more information about the kinds of subjects I鈥檒l be tackling exclusively over at .
I鈥檓 moving on with a heavy heart, but I am soothed by the fact that my able colleague, Christina Samuels, will be rejoining you in this space. Christina has a long history of covering special education and is, I鈥檓 sure, already familiar to many of you.
And because, as many of you have told me, special education students are general education students first, I have no doubt I won鈥檛 be as far removed from many of the issues I鈥檝e written about here as I am thinking I might be now.