Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Helping Parents Help their Students with Disabilities:...

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Under the IDEA, students with disabilities must be provided the related services they need to benefit from their special...

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In a previous post, Opening the School Door to Section 504, I discussed the Section 504 and ADA requirements to provide services...

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Readers, at the end of May I posted that the Second Edition of my book The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law was...

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The parents’ right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of their child is an important IDEA procedural...

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A functional behavior assessment, or FBA, is a tool to gather information about a student’s inappropriate or problem behavior...

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Generally, the IDEA requires that once a school district determines that a student has a disability, the district must...

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Readers: I usually try to focus my posts on issues that are of interest nationally, rather than only in my home state of Colorado...

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Readers as you may be aware, this blog features links for those interested in purchasing my book The Everyday Guide to Special...

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A child’s educational records often contain private personal information about the child and the family. In the course of...

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In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy that parents who...