Government Innovators Network: Topic: Special Needs

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Special Needs.

This section focuses on innovative developments concerning children, teens, and adults with special needs. Interested parties can learn about the many integrated problem-solving techniques being currently created in this field. Topics covered include advances in classroom planning and special education, community supports, family supports, learning disabilities, and inclusion studies. Improvements in the understanding of pathologies such as ADD, ADHD, Down

Project Resolve for Special Education (74%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

Housing Unit Accessible to Disabled Persons in Housing Sites of Social Interest (64%)
The Public Management and Citizenship Programme in Brazil
June 15, 2005

Charter School Law (59%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
March 28, 2005

HAPPY HOURS DAY CARE (56%)
Impumelelo Innovation Award Trust

A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH) (45%)
Innovations in American Government Award
2008

Getting you where you're going: Regional Transit District's new call center helps riders navigate county and beyond (49%)
The Record (Stockton, California)
January 10, 2009

Kids with autism forge new path to adulthood; School-to-work program teaches autonomy as districts rise to need (47%)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
December 22, 2008

Stepping Up Financing of Digital Solidarity Fund Would Help Build Inclusive Information Society, Delegate Tells Second Committee (42%)
US Fed News
October 23, 2008

School helps children, parents to find a 'positive tomorrow' (27%)
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
January 10, 2009

Mental Health Receives $1.5 Million For Women's Program (27%)
US States News
December 17, 2008

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Are We Responding to Their Needs? States' Early Experiences Serving Children With Special Health Care Needs Under SCHIP (100%)
Ian Hill,Amy Westphal Lutzky,Renee Schwalberg
Urban Institute
May 1, 2001

Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner's Guide to Urban Main Street Programs (84%)
Karl F. Seidman
Fannie Mae Foundation
September 1, 2004

Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development (83%)
Calestous Juma and Lee Yee Cheong
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
2005

Survey of Recent Innovations in Education (66%)
Staff of the Government Innovators Network
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
September 1, 2005

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through Innovation (64%)
Ceciliah Kinuthia-Njenge (organizer)

January 1, 2008

State and Local Governments: New Initiatives in Low-Income Housing Preservation (64%)
Mary K. Nenno
Fannie Mae Foundation

Using Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based Developers (63%)
Connie Chung
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
October 1, 2002

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