Individualized Education Program
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Public or Private School?
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Originally Published July 2018 Updated: August 2024 Parents are on the hunt; they’re adding “school choice” to this list of supplies for their child’s academic year. Application deadlines loom, and for many parents, school choice is an important decision—and it should be. Parents of children who have physical and cognitive challenges often find themselves wondering…
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3 Reasons to Add “Teachers’ Notes” to the IEP and 3 Reasons It’s a Mess
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Originally published: March 22, 2016 Updated: July 26, 2024 This post has been updated as technology in schools, such as “Canvas” and “Blackboard,” have been updated to where students can log on from virtually anywhere to access their lesson assignments and classwork. Since the onset of Covid and distance learning, many accommodations have changed or…
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Why It’s Important to Take the Emotion Out of Special Education
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Originally published December 14, 2014 Updated: July 11, 2024 Frequently, I hear from parents who want advice on how to handle their child’s teacher and/or the Individual Education Plan (IEP) meeting. Many want to know ideas and strategies to “win” at getting what they want. In other words, how can they convince a group of…
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2 IEP Items Never to Toss Out
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Updated: July 10, 2024 Original post August 2015 Parents of special education students need a good filing system–whether it be in a desk or online–be mindful of the documents. That being said, there are only two documents that parents should keep. When I say “keep,” I mean locked up in a fire-proof safe needing only…
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Special Education–No Reason to Hire an Attorney–Yet!
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For criminals who need a defense there’s this question, “Do you have a lawyer”? Unfortunately, we can’t always think that someone is guilty just because he’s hired a attorney. And we can’t always blame it on the system when someone gets mixed-up in a mess. But in our court system, this is how things are…