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A FERPA Secret Revealed
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The FERPA— or Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives parents the right to discuss and review basic educational documents for their student. When a child is younger, parents are able to discuss any educational records with their child’s teacher. But on that magic birthday—when your child turns 18—parents suddenly become invisible. Citing privacy concerns,…
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A Guide to Selling a House and Relocating with Your Disabled Child
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The summer months are very popular for company relocation’s and for families choosing to change school districts. That being said, families will find higher moving costs, and quite possibly, a reduction in available moving vans—all adding to the stress of a smooth transition. Albeit, moving is chaotic to say the least. For parents of children with…
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Tips to Manage Your Kids’ Behavior—Without Getting Kicked Out of the Mom Group
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In the adult world there’s a saying–“kids will be kids.” Unfortunately, you can’t always shrug off unruly behavior just because they’re kids. And you can’t always blame it on other people when your kid gets into trouble. Yet, it happens every year. We send our kidlet into any play group we can find, enroll our…
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Here’s How to Help Your Child Earn Independence
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Lately, there seems to be plenty of news articles about how schools are cutting back and making changes to help students and teachers. That’s great. Most every school that I know of needs some type of support anyway, so at least they’re “working on it.” The really, really, fortunate part about this, is that now,…
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Why Teenagers With a Disability Act Differently In Public
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Children often act differently in public. We know this because we bring plenty of “bribes” with us when we wander out of our familiar home surroundings. Of course,we would never even think to stoop so low as to bring snacks and juice with us in the event of an emergency—but we do anyway just in…