related resources: IDEA Inclusion Project

The resources below are aimed at giving some first points of entry, first into the education-related rights of children with disabilities, and second, into the world of dancers and other community-based artists who work with the themes so central to Barbara's project.

I. The Educational Rights of Children with Disabilities
II. Dance, Other Arts, and the Politics of Inclusion

I.  The Educational Rights of Children with Disabilities

A.  Publications on the educational rights of children with disabilities

National Council on Disability, "Back to School on Civil Rights: Advancing
the Federal Commitment to Leave No Child Behind," January, 2000.

Ordover, Eileen, Education Rights of Children with Disabilities: A Revised and Updated Primer for Advocates (2001) Washington, DC: Center for Law & Education.

B.  Websites and organizations related to educational rights of children with disabilities

Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/

Council of Parents Advocates and Attorneys
www.copaa.net

Disability Pathfinder
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/kennedy/pathfinder/index.html
- From Vanderbilt; provides information and links to other resources.

IDEA Practices
http://www.ideapractices.org/

Kids Together Inc. (Pennsylvania)
http://www.kidstogether.org/

National Council on Disability
http://www.ncd.gov/

The Office of Special Education Programs and Rehabilitative Services (OSEP)
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/index.html

SpecialEdlaw.net
SpecialEdlaw.net

Special Education News
http://www.specialednews.com/states/tn/tnlinks.html
- Statistics for the state and links to resources. Same site links to IDEA compliance report.

Tennessee Department of Education, Division of Special Education
http://www.state.tn.us/education/speced/index.htm

Tennessee Disability Coalition
www.tndisability.org

Tennessee Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (TP&A)
http://www.tpainc.org/default.htm
Advocates for the rights of Tennesseans with disabilities to ensure they have an equal opportunity to be productive and respected members of our society.

U.S. Department of Education (annual reports on IDEA implementation, and more)
http://www.ed.gov

West Tennessee RISE Project Homepage
www.people.memphis.edu/~coe_rise/

Wrightslaw
http://wrightslaw.com/


II. Dance, Other Arts, and the Politics of Inclusion

A.  Books and articles on dance, other arts, and inclusion

Linda Frye Burnham, "Dancing in Praise of ... ," Yes: A Journal of
Positive Futures, Summer 2002, pp. 19-21 (describing the Hallelujah
Project of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, a three-year traveling dance
workshop did new performance works with 15 communities in the U.S.)

Linda Frye Burnham, "Impatience with Things as They Are: Art Faces a
Developmental Challenge,"  High Performance #62 (Summer 1993), reprinted at
www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/impatience62.php

Linda Frye Burnham, and Steven Durland, eds.   The Citizen Artist: 20
Years of Art in the Public Arena (an anthology of articles from High
Performance Magazine, 1978-1998).

Elias Katz, Art Centers for Adults with Disabilities
www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/intro-disabilities.php

Liz Lerman, Teaching Dance to Senior Adults (1984) Charles C. Thomas Publishers.

Liz Lerman and John Borstel, Critical Response Process: A Method for
Getting Useful Feedback on Anything You Make, from Dance to Dessert (2003) Washington, D.C.: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

B.  Websites and organizations related to inclusive dance

 Alternate Roots
 www.alternateroots.org

Circle Modern Dance
www.korrnet.org/circle/     

Community Arts Network
 www.communityarts.net

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
 www.danceexchange.org

National Institute of Arts and Disabilities
www.niadart.org