The College School on UD’s Newark campus uses learning tools like complex 3D puzzles to enable students with intellectual disabilities to develop visual and motor skills. The school emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning for students who find traditional classrooms with language-based curricula difficult to navigate.
Volunteers with the Down Syndrome Association of Delaware mismatched socks last weekend at Sussex Technical High School in preparation for Delaware’s sixth Rock Your Socks World Down Syndrome Day. More than 300 people gathered to mismatch 17,000 socks, which will be sold for $1 to be worn on March 21 to promote inclusion of people with Down syndrome.
The Iowa Democratic Party’s decision to allow virtual attendance at primary election caucuses may significantly increase people with disabilities’ participation in the nation’s first – and therefore very influential – primary. Iowa’s caucus system requires individuals to be physically present in the designated caucus location, which can disenfranchise individuals with disabilities and others.
The president of the nonprofit National Housing Conference, writes that the Trump administration should preserve the Capital Magnet Fund, a Treasury Department program that loans money to organizations building and maintaining affordable housing. He claims the administration is considering axing the Fund, despite its nine-year record of stimulating economic growth in underserved regions. Most of the projects underwritten by the Fund have supported low-income individuals with disabilities, veterans, seniors and the homeless.
The state and Christina School District reached an agreement that will keep administrative control of the Delaware Autism Program in Christina. The Delaware Department of Education had taken control of the program several months ago because Christina was having difficulty hiring a program director.
