IDEA

• IDEA History, Book Overview, US Supreme Ct Cases
• Section 1400 - Findings, Purpose
• Section 1401 - Definitions: Disability, Special Education, Related Services, LD, etc.

• Section 1412 - ESY, Child Find, LRE, Private Placements
• Understanding Tests and Measurements, and the Bell Curve, Standard Scores, Scale Scores, % ranks, Grade Equivalent, Age Equivalent, Determining progress v. regression using Bar Graphs

• Section 1414 - Evaluations and IEPs
  
• Section 1415 - Due Process, Rules of Procedure, Discipline
• Section 504, ADA, FERPA, ESSA
• Episodic Conditions, Allergies, Epilepsy, etc.
• Recent US Supreme Court Cases, OCR, USDOJ

The Parent as the Special Ed Manager and Expert

• Developing the Master Plan
• Knowing the Rules of the Game
• Recognizing and Avoiding the Fatal Obstacles
• How to Deal with Conflict, a Healthy and Normal event
• Crisis, Emergency, Help
• Organization of the Child’s File

• Rule of Adverse Assumptions
• Private Evaluations
• Paper Trails
• The Letter to the Stranger
• 5 Ws + H + E
• Preparation for Meetings
• Meeting Strategies