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From Jim Comstock-Galagan Using State Administrative Complaint Provisions under IDEA to Create Systemic Change Jim shares regulatory requirements for state complaints, resources and references, and effective strategies to use when you file a state complaint. State complaints cover a broad range of violations of IDEA and must contain statement that LEA violated IDEA (Part B) [...]

Online registration deadline has been extended to Midnight, Monday March 11, 2013. Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference, a Wrightslaw training program featuring Pete Wright, Esq., is being sponsored by Win River Casino and C.H.E.A.R. (Child Help Educational Advocacy Relations). Register online. Registration includes morning refreshments, lunch, afternoon and three Wrightslaw books. Please download [...]

Early Bird Registration Ends on March 1, 2013. Don’t miss out on this event! Location, Location…  Join Pete Wright and Education for Parents of Indian Children with Special Needs (EPICS) on March 20, 2013 for this Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Training at the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino  in Santa Fe, NM. This [...]

Are there forms or examples available for 504 Plans and IEP’s? How do I get them? To provide guidance about how to implement IDEA 2004, the Education Department publishes topics briefs, model forms and other publications and documents. Model IEP Form When the IDEA 2004 Regulations were published in the Federal Register, the Education Deparment [...]

Join Pete Wright and the sponsors, Reading & Language Arts Centers in Livonia, MI for a Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Training. Conference fee includes Continental Breakfast, boxed lunch, afternoon snacks and three books Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition, Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition, and Wrightslaw: All About IEPs. Two ways [...]

Use Wrightslaw books and Training CD Rom’s to help. “Parents, want to know you and your child’s rights? – try the advocacy book. Want to know the educational law concerning special ed? They have a book for it. Want to understand No Child Left Behind or IDEA? Well, that’s there too.” dixiwaters – Amazon reviewer [...]

My 6 year old daughter had her 3 year reevaluation. She has Childhood Apraxia of Speech and fine motor difficulty. She is doing well academically. At the IEP meeting, one month ago, it was decided that she no longer qualifies for an IEP.  The school suggested a 504 plan and said they would contact us [...]

As a Special Education teacher and advocate, I was elated to hear a change in terminology from “Mentally Retarded” to “Cognitive Disability” as federal mandate for terminology. It is our job as advocates to help eliminate ignorance on this matter by arming people with the correct information.  As an advocacy group, I hope that you [...]

This Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference, featuring Pete Wright, is being sponsored by the National Autism Association of North Texas and the Autism Society of Collin County. The October 20 conference is being held at the First Baptist Church of Plano. Early Bird ends on September 16, 2011. Don’t miss out on the [...]

Take the time and check out our October conference schedule -  Join Pat Howey in Boulder, CO on October 2 for an Emotions to Advocacy Training. Join Pete Wright in Fredericksburg, VA on October 14, then just outside of Philadelphia in Springfield, PA on October 21.  Nashua, NH on the 28th. Find out all of [...]