When you have kids with special needs, you have paperwork. Period. Whether their needs are medical only, or educational as well, you have paperwork from the doctors, the insurance, the school, the IEPs, and more. You also probably have enough “Parental Rights” notices to wallpaper your living room. Keeping that paperwork organized is important! Nurses
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As a special education teacher, I was privileged to be a member of many effective and talented IEP teams.Most of the IEP meetings in which I participated were positive and productive. Additionally, I’ve been in more than one IEP meeting where things did not run as smoothly. There are several things both parents and schools
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In the second part of our series on advocating for your child, we’ll be talking about the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process from start to finish. We’ll be defining a few terms and explaining a few processes, but we’ll be sticking to general information. Remember each state has its own special education laws, and two
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As the new school year begins, many families will be meeting with schools to review Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for their children with special needs. IEPs can be confusing documents, and recent changes to the federal law (the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act or IDEA) have brought about changes in many states and school
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