Special Education Law and Advocacy
We requested that our son be put in an inclusion classroom at his home school. The school denied our request. We don’t have an attorney. What can we do? Should Continue Reading →
Our school divides the intervention specialist’s time for each class period between 2 classrooms. The specialist is only working with my child for half the class period. Or, the specialist Continue Reading →
From Jim Comstock-Galagan – If you want people to understand the matter of inclusion, you make them understand it for themselves. How would inclusion relate to them? Jim understood when Continue Reading →
My principal is requiring that I have meetings to change students’ IEPs to correct the location of services under the direct service hours part of their IEPs. All of their Continue Reading →
I see the social aspect of inclusion as the priority over the educational aspect. I have concerns about the inclusion “movement” disallowing for appropriate services, i.e. cognitively delayed students who Continue Reading →
I am a general education teacher. One of my students, who has an IEP, interrupts class several times a day. It is not uncommon for him to blurt out on- Continue Reading →
Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? “Special education” under IDEA is not a place Continue Reading →
I am a special education teacher. I have some concerns and questions about how students are receiving the mandated special ed services. 1. Is there a legal definition of self-contained Continue Reading →
