Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Helping Parents Help their Students with Disabilities:...

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   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...

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In a previous post, Opening the School Door to Section 504, I discussed the Section 504 and ADA requirements to provide services...

Second Edition of The Everyday Guide to Special Education...

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  Readers, at the end of May I posted that the Second Edition of my book The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law was...

From the Outside Looking In: Independent Educational...

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   The parents’ right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of their child is an important IDEA procedural...

Parent Consent and Independent Educational Evaluation...

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  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...

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  Generally, the IDEA requires that once a school district determines that a student has a disability, the district must...

Colorado DDD Proposes Two Step Plan: Change State Rules to...

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Readers: I usually try to focus my posts on issues that are of interest nationally, rather than only in my home state of Colorado...

The Second Edition of The Everyday Guide to Special...

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Readers as you may be aware, this blog features links for those interested in purchasing my book The Everyday Guide to Special...

Keeping it on the down low: The IDEA, School Records, and...

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     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...

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       In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy that parents who...

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