State Impact Florida Archives • Ollibean

Disability on the Florida Senate’s 2013 Agenda

2016-11-10T10:11:59-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: blog, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusive Education|Tags: all disabilities, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children’s Educational Bill of Rights, Disability, hearing impairment, John O'Connor, McKay scholarship, NPR, SB 150, SB 226, State Impact Florida|

The most important would eliminate the requirement that students enroll

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Feedback Loop: Autistic Student, Or Student With Autism?

2016-11-10T10:12:05-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Articles, General, Lifestyle|Tags: ASD, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, autistic, NPR, State Impact Florida, student with autism|

Dean McIntosh criticized our describing Frost as a “student with

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Social Media Helps Student With Autism Find His Voice

2012-10-14T11:51:56-04:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, General, Inclusive Education|Tags: all disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, civil rights, education, Henry, I STAND WITH HENRY, inclusion, inclusive education, ISTANDWITHHENRY, my civil rights, NPR, State Impact Florida|

Henry Miles Frost and his service dog, Denzel, protest outside

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StateImpact Florida A Finalist For Innovative, Investigative Journalism Award

2016-11-10T10:12:06-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Assistive Technology, General, Inclusive Education|Tags: all disabilities, ataxic cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy, Charter Schools, cp, John O'Connor Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, State Impact Florida, Tonya Whitlock, Tres Whitlock|

From our investigation: Tres Whitlock types on the DynaVox tablet

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Creators of Halo & Star Wars Renew Student’s Dream after Charter School Rejection

2016-11-10T10:12:19-05:00By Lauri Swann Hunt|Categories: AAC, Advocacy, Advocacy In Action, Assistive Technology, blog, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusive Education, Lifestyle, Ollibean Family, Think Tank|Tags: 343 Industries, all disabilities, Bioware Austin, cerebral palsy, Change Leader, Halo, hearing impairment, Jim Shepard, John O'Connor, Josh Holmes, NPR, Sara Gonzalez, State Impact Florida, Tonya Whitlock, Tres Whitlock|

Self-advocate Tres Whitlock on how the NPR story, "Florida Charter Schools Failing Disabled Students" has impacted him.

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Florida Charter Schools Failing Students With Disabilities

2016-11-10T10:12:22-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusive Education|Tags: all disabilities, cerebral palsy, charter school, Charter Schools, developmental disabilities, disabilities, discrimination, discrimination. Tres Whitlock, Florida, John O' Conner, NPR, NPR State Impact, special needs, State Impact Florida, Tres Whitlock|

Tres Whitlock is stuck in a public school where he

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Charter Schools

2012-03-30T16:58:21-04:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Editor's Picks, General, Inclusive Education, Politics|Tags: all disabilities, cerebral palsy, Charter Schools, developmental disabilities, down syndrome, John O'Connor, State Impact Florida|

Charter schools are an idea dreamed up by an obscure

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More on Students With Disabilities and the Law

2012-02-07T23:34:51-05:00By Ollibean|Categories: Advocacy, Articles, Inclusive Education|Tags: all disabilities, Disability, education, inclusion, John O'Connor, politics/rights, State Impact Florida|

By JOHN O’CONNOR Tres Whitlock is trying to enroll in

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