children with disabilities
10th Circuit Denies Private Residential Placement for Child...
Ability Law Blog Post
In Thompson R2-J School District v Luke P., a case out of Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district...
Ninth Circuit Rules that Limiting Parents’ Expert’s Class...
Ability Law Blog Post
In L.M. v Capistrano Unified School District, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that limiting the parents’...
Services Plans for Parentally-placed Private School...
Ability Law Blog Post
Some students with disabilities attend private rather than public schools. There are three scenarios in which a student with...
Helping Parents Help their Students with Disabilities:...
Ability Law Blog Post
Under the IDEA, students with disabilities must be provided the related services they need to benefit from their special...
Section 504, School Field Trips, and Students with...
Ability Law Blog Post
In a previous post, Opening the School Door to Section 504, I discussed the Section 504 and ADA requirements to provide services...
From the Outside Looking In: Independent Educational...
Ability Law Blog Post
The parents’ right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of their child is an important IDEA procedural...
Parent Consent and Independent Educational Evaluation...
Ability Law Blog Post
A functional behavior assessment, or FBA, is a tool to gather information about a student’s inappropriate or problem behavior...
Moving On: The IDEA and Summary of Performance for Students...
Ability Law Blog Post
Generally, the IDEA requires that once a school district determines that a student has a disability, the district must...
Keeping it on the down low: The IDEA, School Records, and...
Ability Law Blog Post
A child’s educational records often contain private personal information about the child and the family. In the course of...
H. R. 4188 The IDEA Fairness Restoration Act: Allowing...
Ability Law Blog Post
In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy that parents who...
