Temperatures may have been in the 100s but more than 140 people from around the world had a purpose in choosing Bakersfield as their destination during the week of June 17-25. They came to learn how to teach severely disabled
A second round of funding has been secured by Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Bakersfield, to help build the MOVE International Training Center in southeast Bakersfield. MOVE provides training to parents and caregivers to teach severely disabled children and adults to learn
Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Bakersfield, has obtained a $1,024,000 appropriation for MOVE, a program developed in Kern County that helps severely disabled children and adults gain mobility skills.
As Linda Bidabe and Gerald Goebel fit Dane Snodgrass into the pacer, he was a little unsure. After all, this foreign piece of equipment had small wheels which would allow him to move, if he used his legs. Dane was
Since they could not take the children to Hawaii, the staff of the Harry E. Blair Learning Center in Bakersfield did the next best thing. They held a July 17 luau for them at Sequoia Middle School. There were plenty
As MOVE specialists sat quietly observing, Linda Bidabe, creator of MOVE, conducted an assessment profile of seven-year old Yovanni Valdez, a Blair MOVE student. Bidabe began by asking Yovanni what he wanted to be able to do. With a big
Retired Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE) Administrator Linda Bidabe received the 2004 E.P. Maxwell/J. Schleifer Distinguished Service Award from EP (Exceptional Parent) Magazine and Major League Baseball on Aug. 6 at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. Bidabe was escorted onto
Car lovers of all sorts, shapes and sizes dropped in on the second annual "Fabulous Fifty's Fun Car Show" on Oct. 9 hosted by Olive Knolls Church of the Nazarene in Bakersfield. The Old Friends of Bakersfield Car Club, which
It is perhaps an overused quotation, but when Confucius said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," he apparently was on to something that could well be the motto for an organization called MOVE International. MOVE
Administrators from MOVE model sites throughout the U.S. and New Zealand gathered in Bakersfield for two days in November to share experiences, ideas and map future directions. "We view the MOVE model sites as the front line for innovation, education
What would bring a poor orphanage supervisor from China and a first-year preschool teacher from Redding, CA, to the triple-digit weather of Bakersfield, California, in June? The answer is MOVE -- a four-letter acronym for Mobility Opportunities Via Education --
It is perhaps fitting that the tune on which children's songwriters and vocalists Greg and Steve ended their March 14 Bakersfield concert was titled "The World Is A Rainbow." They sang of "many kinds of colored flowers, many kinds of
Thursday, June 21, in Bakersfield was hot -- 90 degrees plus. The kind of day that would motivate very few people to walk outdoors let alone take on a strenuous activity. Inside the Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office (KCSOS)
