School Ends IEP: “Disability No Longer Affects Education”?
I have an 8 year old in second grade who can now walk around after 80 different corrective surgeries. He has popliteal pterygium syndrome with his knees in a contracted Continue Reading →
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Learn How to Write a Parent Agenda
Parent Rights & Responsibilities in the IEP Process Identifying Problems, Clarifying Issues Assignment #1: Write a Parent Agenda Directions: Type your Parent Agenda in the message box below – then Continue Reading →
Cool Tool: PAR Assessment Toolkit
The PAR Assessment Toolkit was created to provide assistance to psychologists, mental health workers, and anyone else who administers standardized assessments. The scope of this application was in response to Continue Reading →
Limited Space Available for Lawrence, MA Conference on June 26
Limited space available. Register today! ABLED Advocacy invites you to join Pete Wright, Esq. for a Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Training in Lawrence, MA on June 26, 2014. Continue Reading →
What You Need to Know Before Filing a State Complaint!
Your state Department of Education must develop a system to provide information about state complaint procedures and how to resolve parent-school complaints. Take care when you use your state complaint Continue Reading →
Pete Says “What You Need to Know Before Filing a State Complaint”
IDEA 2004 requires state departments of education to develop systems to provide information about their state complaint procedures to resolve parent-school complaints. Be careful when you use your state complaint Continue Reading →
State Complaint, Non-Compliance: “The School is Trying to Intimidate Me!”
I filed a state complaint for non-compliance with the IEP. My son’s teacher and aide are not familiar with autism. He sits in the corner of the room and does Continue Reading →
3rd Circuit Will Hear Food Allergy Discrimination Case
*Update – September 12, 2014. In the food allergy discrimination case, TF v. Fox Chapel Area School District, the Third Circuit ruled that the school district was not “deliberately indifferent” to Continue Reading →
3rd Circuit to Hear Food Allergy Discrimination Case
A case involving a kindergarten student with a tree nut allergy has the potential to set a precedent for food-allergy-related accommodations in a federal appellate court. Food Allergy Research and Continue Reading →
Dyslexia: An Ounce of Prevention
“It is a sobering fact: dyslexia affects up to twenty percent of the population and it has very specific symptoms.” Kelli Sandman-Hurley, explains that students who have dyslexia “…will always Continue Reading →
