Ability Law Blog
Author: Randy Chapman, Esq.
Randy Chapman has been the director of legal services at Disability Law Colorado since 1980. He played a pivotal role in the development of disability law and helped break ground in implementing special education law.
He has authored multiple publications about special education law, and overseen legal representation to more than 25,000 people with disabilities in Colorado.
OSEP Clarifies that RTI Process Cannot Delay-Deny IDEA...
Feb 4 2011
Since the Response to Intervention (RTI) process was referred to in the IDEA regulations as a means of identifying a student as having a specific learning disability, there has been confusion... School Should Have Been Proactive to Protect Student with...
Jan 24 2011
The Office for Civil Rights determined that the fact that a student with cognitive disabilities never actually filed a written complaint against schoolmates who regularly called him "retard", "... New Preventing Litigation in Special Education WORKBOOK...
Jan 7 2011
Readers, many of you may be familiar with my book The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law. I'm proud to announce that a new book is now available to assist parents and educators in... 2010 in review
Jan 2 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
... GAO Reports on Cases of Public and Private Schools that...
Dec 17 2010
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has published a report, Selected Cases of Public and Private Schools That Hired or Retained Individuals with Histories of Sexual Misconduct, that reveals... Schools Must Proactively Provide Evaluations Under Section...
Dec 14 2010
A school district in Alabama violated Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act because it failed to realize that a 9th grade student's extensive absences and his mother's... Department of Education Issues Guidance Targeting...
Oct 27 2010
Yesterday, October 26th 2010, the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to state departments of education and local school districts to clarify... Celebrating 35 Years of the IDEA:The U.S. Department of...
Oct 19 2010
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975. President Obama Signs Rosa's Law Eliminating the"...
Oct 6 2010
On October 5th, 2010 President Obama signed S. 2781, known as Rosa's law, requiring the federal government to replace the term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" in federal... DOJ Posts Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA...
Aug 6 2010
The Department of Justice recently posted on its website a customer friendly guide called Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA Complaint. This guide, provided in a question and answer... 