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Hi Parents!

While we excitedly await the many changes that will be occurring in Washington, and changes in our daily lives, we need to remain ever-diligent about how those changes will affect our Students with learning disabilities and the fulfillment of our child’s IEP in the school.

The election brought many changes and among those was the lack of mill-levy funding to many schools throughout the nation. This will mean inevitable cutbacks on staff and services within the districts, and unfortunately, some of those cuts will happen in many Special Education departments. Many teachers will be forced to add more students to their contact sheets and classrooms, not only regular education kids but special education kids that require services. Some services may be provided by personnel that are not highly trained or qualified, in an effort to cut back on higher paid specialists.

Now is the time for parents to be more aware of what is happening in your child’s school.

* Make sure you request an IEP (Individual Education Plan) team meeting to refresh and ensure that all your child’s needs are provided and who is providing those services.
* Hold the school accountable for providing the highest quality goals for your child, not matter what the cost.
* Help the school with creative ways to fund your child’s needs…..maybe an out-sourced provider or specialist that could provide the same services at a reduced rate for the school.

You must do the best you can to monitor the situation and the services that your child is receiving.

* Visit the school and sit in on class to observe the activities, and be sure to have a lunch-date with your child occasionally. This is a great time to observe the surroundings.
* Make sure that you know each providers’ name, email and phone number and give them your contact information.
* Ask them if there is anything you can do to insure that your child is receiving all the services on the IEP. This is also a good way to make sure that the teacher knows what your child should be receiving.
* Stay aware of what is happening in your child’s school and always keep the lines of communication open with teachers and other parents. They are your best source of information.

If you feel that your child is not thriving or achieving as expected, don’t wait for the next IEP meeting. You have the right to request a meeting at any time. Follow protocol and send your request to the Special Education teacher and the Principle in writing.

Don’t hesitate to ask a friend, family member or doctor to attend with you if you don’t want to go alone.

Be diligent in this time of sacrifice and cutbacks and protect the rights of your child’s IEP. Child educational advocacy is still the number one goal!

Young and middle aged people looking for a new career that they can start fast, should consider going to a health care or medical vocational school. These types of schools can be easily found from an online directory of technical trade schools to hopefully help you find something close to home.

This is a faster way to start a job in the never ending, always busy health care industry. If you are in a position to change careers or are looking for that new challenge and enjoy helping others there are plenty of opportunities in this line of work.

Healthcare has come a long way from prior years, and more advanced healthcare is being offered to patients with different types of health problems. There are the areas of general care, laboratory, dialysis, x-ray and many others. Advanced home health care is another area that continues to grow, as more people want to make the choice to be cared for in their home, instead of in a facility or institution. Health providers and private nursing are a booming industry for patients who prefer this type of care.

When choosing a health care career as well as a school try to choose carefully and explore all the options available and what each school has to offer. If unsure, perhaps you should begin with a Nurses Aide type course, which will give you basic training and orientation in many areas, as well as the opportunity to work as an Aide and further explore which areas you might want to further professionalize in.

Health care schools usually train students quicker than traditional colleges or universities, therefore making you more readily available in the job market sooner. Due to the demand of healthcare workers, these type of career schools have expedited many of their training programs. Many of them may also offer job placement and on the job training in some fields (not all).

To explore your opportunities, it would probably be best to search the internet for schools in your area, and see what each of them have to offer, and how they might fit your budget. You might also check to see which of them offer financial aid or deferred payment programs, pending job placement after graduation. Some schools may contract with large health care facilities and hospitals that offer employee incentives.

Before making the investment of time and money into your education be sure that this is an area that you would like to explore, and are not only doing it for the pay. You should have an interest in taking care of people who need help and recovery from someone who cares, not just someone trying to pad their pockets with a decent pay check.

Prior to signing or applying with a school ask if they have a tour program or an orientation program that gives you an idea of what to expect in the healthcare industry and the profession that you are seeking. Beware of those schools that want to talk about the financing first and your training way later.

Always remember that the healthcare industry is one that has been in business for many years and will be there for many years to come. Choose wisely and good luck in your search for a school.

The first thing that you need to know before going for any online college degree is to select the discipline in which you are really interested. Once you have decidead the discipline in which you want to attend the best online degree program, then you can take further steps; determining the discipline in which you are interested can help you in narrowing your overall search for the best online college degree.

Moreover, it will also help you in narrowing the search for institutions as well because not all institutions offers higher online education from all disciplines. Apart from it, there are further more things that you should consider in order to hunt for the best online degree program for you.

Deciding on which is the best online degree program you want to sign up for is hard enough, but let’s take a look at what you might want to consider.

Step 1: Find out what you already know

Decide whether you already have in mind the best online degree program that you want to pursue.

Step 2: Find out your purpose

Decide if it is for the career you’re looking after taking that degree or the kind of money you can take home after or if it is the kind of college life you’re interested in like online parties, sports and so on.

Step 3: Funnel your options

Check the accreditation of the institution offering the degree. Of course, you’d want something legal and solid when you shell out your money, guts and brains. Also, you can narrow down your list once you’ve already decided which program to take as not all educational institutions offer will offer the online accredited degrees that you’re looking for.

Step 4: Making that decision

The next step would be to scrutinize the offers out there by preparing a list of criteria of what you need in choosing the best online degree program. Are you after the school’s academic excellence? Do you like the courses they’re offering? Do you have particular professors you’d want to study under? Do you like the method of teaching the school is offering?

Step 5: Compare and contrast

With the criteria at hand, you can easily pick out and list the best candidates for your online degree. Take time to research on each school or institution to have a better grasp of what they can offer and compare it with the others. Don’t just glaze over what online advertisements can provide to you but check out each one’s own website. (For example, don’t be too trusting with colleges that don’t even have their own website.)

You can even make a chart out of the data that you have gathered to better contrast each college from each other and weigh your options. You’re chart may look like this:

College A
College B
College C
College D

Academic Reputation

Cost

Relevant Classes

Technology

Use a scale from 1 to 10 for narrowing down your list. If you know what you exactly want, you won’t end up in spending too much time in the hunt for the best online degree program for you.