Special Education Funds For the Disabled

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services referred to as OSERS from this point in our discussion was developed to help people of all ages to improve their status in life by providing educational funding. The OSERS provide support to persons with disabilities in three different ways.

• Osers support parents and students by providing special education programs that help meet the needs of each individual according to their disability.

• Osers help with vocational rehabilitation by providing special training in a particular job and in many cases funding to help the student to go to college getting a degree for a higher profession.

• Osers help the disabled by providing funding for research that is very helpful in some cases to improve health and provide better equipment for mobility.

Osers a federally funded program feel that by providing funding for that covers infants, toddlers, children and adults with disabilities no individual will be left behind and will have a happier fit in today's society. The disabled and the legally blind are just as capable as any other student to complete a four year college course and enter into a profession that will help them to achieve a life of abundance.

The different states have programs that help with educational funding and there are private organizations that provide funding help for anyone with a disability who wishes to excel in college. Most people with a disability prefer to look at themselves as a person with many "capabilities" and this is a proven fact. Over the many years our society has had many people with "capabilities" in very important positions, artists, singers, scientists and inventors.

OSERS has become the guiding force to identify early in a child's life what is needed to help them succeed in life. Osers provides intervention in schools when need be to assist the parent in getting what is needed for the progress of the child. OSERS is committed to working with both internal and external forces while some local or state groups do not have the power to require organizations to adhere to rules and regulations governing the help and support of the disabled. Many years ago the federal government had already put into place specific guidelines for the legally blind which protects their rights and gives them the privilege of attending a college or University for higher education. The disabled and legally blind now have rights and privileges that help them succeed in life with a higher education.

By Tom Tessin