The Wrightslaw Way

My son is 18.  He suffers from anxiety and bi-polar. He just had his first IEP. He is very bright and scored above average on all his academic testing. Emotionally he cannot function in his current school setting. The school determined that he needed an outside placement. They gave me two options – both seem […]

My child has an IEP for ‘learning disability’ services. The school says she no longer has a learning disability and told me her IEP would expire at the end of this month. What accommodations should I have them put in the 504 plan? A learning disability is not something a person outgrows. You need to […]

Two questions keep coming to mind as I participate in IEP meetings for my daughter and for clients of William & Mary School of Law’s PELE Clinic: 1.  How can I get my daughter’s IEP Team to take my suggestions more seriously? 2. How can I develop a record for clients whose children need extensive […]

I wrote a “parent IEP attachment” and asked that it be included with my child’s IEP. The special education coordinator refused. She said my input could not be attached to the IEP because of school policy. Can they do this? Is this written in the law? How can I deal with this? Of course not. […]

My child attends school ‘out of district’ because our district had no program for a multiple needs-high needs student. He has one year left of school (age 20). Now the home school district wants to save money by making a new classroom for this program. My son will need to move and adjust to another […]