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Dr. Linda Bluth is the fourth person in the U.S. to successfully complete the NAPT Special Needs Transportation Training Program. The program consists of 24 hours of education in a variety of different settings. The core curriculum is supplemented by eight hours of elective instruction from the NAPT Professional Development Series Program.
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Workshops at the Transporting Students With Disabilities event focus on developing staff and students. School bus drivers and attendants compete in the special-needs roadeo.
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School bus drivers and attendants are asked to share their experiences in a survey being conducted by university researchers. The outcome is expected to help bolster the safety of wheelchair-seated students by identifying needs for improved technologies, standards and training.
Read More →The mother of a 9-year-old boy says her son was hospitalized after he was kicked by an older student while riding the bus. She wants the other student to be taken off of the bus, but she says school officials told her that the student cannot be removed because he has special needs.
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The wheelchair lift industry is moving toward technology that reduces equipment complications and helps users better understand how to operate and maintain their lifts.
Read More →Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel provides school personnel (including transportation managers and bus drivers), parents and students with a team approach for helping students manage their diabetes in a school setting. The guide includes revised information on such topics as training for school personnel.
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An expert on transporting students with special needs reflects on changes in the transportation of special-needs students over the past 25 years.
Read More →Industry professionals say that having special-needs students ride regular-education routes can be cost effective and help the students learn self-advocacy.
Read More →In SBF's 2011 Special-Needs Survey, respondents report that 30 percent of their special-needs students are mainstreamed (i.e., ride regular-ed routes). I have a disability and in my opinion, when you have a disability, it boosts your self-esteem to be treated as “normally” as possible. It seems, then ...
Read More →Leonard Bus Sales, which has four locations in New York state, joins the Type A manufacturer’s network.
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