Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia • Page 13

DAILY PRESS, Newport News. Thursday, November 1S7813 Virginia School Plans To Improve Access For Handicapped About 18 students are now enrolled in the handicapped center. Students must be deaf or blind with one additional major handicap to qualify for the school. For now, they are housed in the vocational building and must be moved by a van or walk to the dining hall, dormitories and infirmary. The committee toured the center and discussed possible changes in the the program.

This included a suggestion that perhaps the center should be self-contained with the sudents eating, sleeping, learning and playing in one building. Bellefleur was asked to report on buildings suited for this and the money required to make it possible. Discussion Wednesday involved definitions of the new law dealing with special education. Concern was voiced over vague terms in the law and the differences in interpretation. "What they conside severely handicapped may not be what we consider severely handicapped," Bellefleur said, referring to differences between the board and public school officials.

"So what do we have to go by? I don't know. We just have to look at each case and ask if we can pragmatically educate this child." The committee was concerned about what Chairman Dr. John W. Handy Jr. foresaw as the possibility that "an due burden could be placed on the school by persons needing custodial care for their children." As a result, Bellefleur has been asked to establish criteria for admissions.

The center is for all multi-handicapped students in the state who meet admission requirements. Sharon Berry, a consultant to the committee from the school, briefly outlined a report she prepared on the needs of the program. She said a diagnostic team is one of the major needs. By KAREN COX Staff Reporter The proposed $1.5 million capital improvement plan for the Virginia School at Hampton was explained to the Committee for the Multi-Handicap Center Wednesday. The committee, created by the joint board of the Virginia School at Hampton and the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, met in Hampton to look at the role of the Hampton center.

The plan, submitted to the board last month by Superintendent Dr. Philip Bellefleur, will eliminate the barriers which limit accessibility of the buildings on campus for physically handicapped students. The report shows campus buildings lack access ramps, sufficiently wide doorways, safe walks, adequate parking and campus transportation for the handicapped child in a wheelchair. Inside the buildings, the bathrooms need modifications, doorways need identification, lighting needs to be improved and elevators or chair lifts to the second floor are needed. The school listed the facilities according to priorities and cost of the work, concentrating first on the facilities used most by students.

First priority will be given to the dining hall, infirmary, gym, boys' dormitory and vocational building. Work will cost $172,321.55. Other modifications to the buildings, costing about $415,897.55, are planned when money is available. Second priority will be given to three classroom buildings and the girls' dormitory. Work is estimated to cost $558,184.

About $243,291 is planned to remove barriers in two dormitories as the third priority. The administration building, central storage and superintendent's residence are listed fourth. Cost to make these areas barrier free is estimated at $150,371. Chamber President Re-Elected bers who have served as vice presidents, including Mrs. Sylvia Berry, United Airlines representative for the Peninsula; Y.B.

Williams vice president of Newport News Shipbuilding and F. Edward Harris, senior vice president of United Virginia Bank. All three were also, re-elected to the board. Gordon L. Gentry was re-elected treasurer.

Gentry is the senior vice president of the Bank of Virginia-Eastern, The Chamber of Commerce also elected seven new board members. They are: J. Edward Ames III, Herbert M. Barnard, Thomas N. P.

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A. A. "Bud" West, a General Electric Co. representative in Newport News, was unopposed. Also re-elected were the three mem-Book Fair Set The Riverside Elementary School Book Fair will be held Tuesday through Nov.

17 in the school library. An open house in observance of American Education Week will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. Parents may shop at the book fair, visit classrooms and the Title I Media Center and have lunch with their children in the cafeteria Wednesday.

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