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Get ready for the new academic year! Join us for free school supplies and backpacks giveaway for school-aged children (PreK-12) of active duty and activated Reserve or National Guard families. School supplies for active duty service members and their spouses who will be attending school will also be provided.
The Superintendents from Barstow Unified School District and Silver Valley Unified School District will be on-site to help register your child for school and to answer any questions you may have. There will also be representatives from nearby schools as well as other MCLB programs.
Registration is required.
The mission of the School Liaison is to mobilize and use community resources to reduce the impact of the mobile military life style on military school-age children and families; to implement predictable support services that assist school-age children with relocations, life transitions and achieving academic success.
USMC School Liaisons support transitioning families in obtaining educational information and assistance from local school districts. The School Liaisons role is very comprehensive and is adapted at each installation according to the needs of the community.
Implementation of the School Liaison is assurance that USMC Leadership considers a quality education “is a Marine priority by working to ‘level the playing field’ for Marine families.”
Baseline services include:
- School transition support services
- School and community partnership initiatives
- Installation/school communication
- Home school linkage/support
- Post-secondary preparation opportunities
School Liaisons network, educate, and work in partnership with local schools to provide caring adults to enhance school-age education experience. The School Liaison provides military commanders with the support necessary to coordinate and advise military parents of school-aged children in education issues and needs and to assist in solving education-related problems. This support includes:
- Maintaining information on the availability and access of education services available in their areas.
- Providing resources to parents, students, schools, commanders and communities that facilitate school transitions and relationships.
- Educating local schools and communities about the needs of military school-age children and the military lifestyle.
- Mobilizing community resources to reduce the impact of the mobile military lifestyle on military school-age children.
- Serving as communicator and facilitator that assist parents and commanders in interacting with local schools an in responding to education transition issues for all school ages.
- Identifying barriers to the academic success and smooth transition of Marine school-age children and develop solutions to barriers.
- Referring families to support programs to ensure that military families receive responsive support with a minimum of referrals and paperwork.
- Promoting parent and community involvement in youth education.
- Developing school and community partnership initiatives.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) list 13 separate categories of disabilities under which children may be eligible for special education and related services. The handicapping conditions are:
Autism
Autism means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance.
Deaf-Blindness
Deaf-Blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or child with blindness.
Deafness
Deafness means a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistics information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Emotional Disturbance
Emotional disturbance is defined as a condition exhibiting on or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual sensory, or health factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems
- The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.
Hearing Impairment
Hearing impairment means an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but that is no included under the definition of deafness in this section.
Mental Retardation
Mental retardation means significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities
Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation – blindness, mental retardation – orthopedic, etc) the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairment. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairments
Orthopedic impairments means a sever orthopedic impairments that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital abnormality (e.g. clubfoot, absence of some member, etc), impairments caused by disease (e.g. poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc), and impairments from other causes (e.g. cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
Other Health Impairments
Other health impairments means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickly cell anemia and adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Specific Learning Disability
Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal; brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, or emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Speech or Language Impairment
Speech or language impairment means a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affect a child’s educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgement; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech. The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries by birth trauma.
Visual Impairment Including Blindness
Visual impairment including blindness means an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. There term includes both partial sight and blindness.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) list 13 separate categories of disabilities under which children may be eligible for special education and related services. The handicapping conditions are:
Autism
Autism means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance.
Deaf-Blindness
Deaf-Blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or child with blindness.
Deafness
Deafness means a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistics information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Emotional Disturbance
Emotional disturbance is defined as a condition exhibiting on or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual sensory, or health factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems
- The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.
Hearing Impairment
Hearing impairment means an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but that is no included under the definition of deafness in this section.
Mental Retardation
Mental retardation means significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities
Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation – blindness, mental retardation – orthopedic, etc) the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairment. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairments
Orthopedic impairments means a sever orthopedic impairments that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital abnormality (e.g. clubfoot, absence of some member, etc), impairments caused by disease (e.g. poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc), and impairments from other causes (e.g. cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
Other Health Impairments
Other health impairments means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickly cell anemia and adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Specific Learning Disability
Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal; brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, or emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Speech or Language Impairment
Speech or language impairment means a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affect a child’s educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgement; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech. The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries by birth trauma.
Visual Impairment Including Blindness
Visual impairment including blindness means an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. There term includes both partial sight and blindness.
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