Each year, more innocence gets sapped from high school football.

Are you the parent or caregiver of a special needs child? Do you want help from another mom who has been there?

Love mini golf? Take the "100 Holes of Mini-Putt" challenge and raise funds for special-needs kids.

The Special Choir at Gilbert’s Mesquite High School will give its eighth annual concert performance 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the school auditorium, 500 S. McQueen Road.

October 4, 2004

East Valley students and their families are invited to meet with representatives from about 40 government agencies, community organizations, colleges and universities to learn about life after high school for students with special needs.

The number of students receiving empowerment savings accounts could possibly double in less than a year, according to the Arizona Department of Education. Last spring, lawmakers approved the voucher-like program for students with special needs to provide parents more choices for their children, while also decreasing what Arizona pays for education, according to proponents.

Desert Ridge Junior High School, a Mesa school in the Gilbert Unified School District, is home to a new special needs program called Vocational Training and Assessment (VTA), according to a news release. The VTA program replaces the VIP program, formerly hosted at Highland High School.

Our View: Gilbert mother Cheryl Bowe has a reasonable concern about the obstacles she ran into while signing up one of her daughters for swim lessons. But Bowe goes too far when she suggests Gilbert discriminated against 8-year-old Emily because of her lack of sight.

About 80 Gilbert district special-needs students will get the chance to attend the East Valley Institute of Technology in the fall after an agreement between the Mesa school and the Gilbert Unified School District.

The developers of Main Street Commons must obtain a special permit in order to build stand-alone apartment complexes, Gilbert's Board of Adjustment voted Wednesday night.

Although a final decision was not made Tuesday night, it looks like Highland High School special-needs senior Kevyn Barton will most likely get the chance to walk in this year’s graduation ceremony.

The request of Gilbert high school student Kevyn Barton to walk at graduation seems rather easy to his family — the 18-year-old senior has completed his course work as expected by his teachers and he wants to join his friends and peers.

The Arizona Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a case that will decide the validity of two of Arizona's most promising education programs. The programs allow parents of disabled and foster-care children to choose the best schools for their children.

Two schools designed for kids with learning disabilities are coming to the Scottsdale area, starting to fill what officials say is a need for an underserved group.

This newspaper got two things right in discussing the recent appellate court ruling on Arizona’s scholarship programs for children with special needs and foster children (“Ruling right, but issue is not over,” Our View, May 21).

Finding and making friends can be tough for children with special needs. But since 2000, Best Buddies Arizona has been dedicated to making that a little easier one child at a time.

Denise Murrietta is a likable teenager with a quick smile. The Scottsdale girl enjoys horseback riding, watching birds, going to school and spending time with her dogs.

Authorities are searching in the early Friday morning hours for a 12-year-old boy described as a special needs child who hasn't been seen since he left school Thursday.

A Scottsdale program will soon give police and firefighters extra information when they respond to the homes of families of people with special needs.

A Scottsdale program will soon give police and firefighters extra information when they respond to the homes of families of people with special needs.

Just two weeks ago, the Cardinals’ special teams — led by an NFL record-tying three 50-yard-plus field goals by Neil Rackers and a blocked punt for a safety — keyed a victory against Seattle.