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If you are the parent of a child with a disability or you have a niece, nephew, or grandchild with a disability, Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is required reading for you. If you have a friend or neighbor whose child has a disability, Wrightslaw: Special Education Law should be required reading for the child’s parent. Why? More than five million children with disabilities receive special education services. Unfortunately, few parents
understand their children’s rights or their parental rights and responsibilities.
Ignorance of the law is often as handicapping as the child's disability.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is an essential tool for anyone who wants to advocate for a child with a disability. With this book, parents, attorneys, and advocates can find the answers to questions about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilition Act, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is an excellent gift for any parent of a child with a disability. About the Authors:Pete Wright, an attorney with a disability, has represented children with disabilities and their parents for more than 20 years. Pete argued and won a landmark special education case before the U. S. Supreme Court. Pam Wright, a psychotherapist, has written dozens of articles about special education advocacy. Pete and Pam developed Wrightslaw, the special education advocacy site for parents, attorneys, advocates, and educators. They also publish The Special Ed Advocate, the free online newsletter about special education legal issues, cases, tactics and strategy, effective educational methods, and Internet links. What People Are Saying about Wrightslaw: Special Education Law The authors have accomplished an unusual feat - a book that is equally useful to the experienced lawyer or advocate and the inexperienced parent. The essence of the law is experience, not reason. No one has more experience than the Wrights. - William M. Laviano, Esq. Excellent guide. Well organized. . . . stresses the need to use researched-based methods. Regular and special educators need to equate the terms "appropriate" and "research-based." Nice job. Bill Matthew, Ph.D., Director of Special Education, Delano, CA Extremely well done, balanced and useful. I recommend that parents read the Individuals with Disabilities Act with your section overviews. It is like taking a mini-course on the law at one’s own pace. Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is an important contribution to understanding special education law and how to use it more effectively. -- William F. Byrne, Esq. The concise, clear descriptions of what the law means will be of value to every interested individual, from parents to university professors. Douglas Carnine, Ph.D., National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is written and organized in a way that provides lay persons and professionals with the information and understanding needed to effectively advocate for students with disabilities. Rebecca Felton, Ph.D., Educational Consultant Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is straightforward and direct in style but infused with empathy and passion for children and youth with disabilities, their educational welfare, and their rights under special education law. - Jamie Ruppman, educational advocate and mother of two sons with disabilities. Wrightslaw: Special Education Law is more than wonderful. Never again should a parent go to an IEP meeting, mediation or due process hearing without being fully informed and prepared. Thank you for taking such confusing, complex information and making it user friendly for the parent of a child who has recently been diagnosed and informative for the most proficient advocate. - Sandra Britt, Immediate Past President, Learning Disabilities Association of America Wrightslaw: Special Education Law provides a thorough background about special education and the laws and cases that support the amendments to IDEA. Anyone who teaches courses in special education at the post-secondary level will find this text to be an invaluable resource. Administrators and educators in every school should have access to the timely information included in each chapter. - Quentin L. Griffey, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Special Education, Pfeiffer University It’s all here! The laws, regulations, cases - and Pete’s comments on legal interpretations of special education law are now in one book! This comprehensive book takes the guesswork out of finding answers to the most common questions that plague parents and advocates. - Patricia Howey, Special Education Consultant and Advocate Parents have long needed a comprehensive look at the special education and civil rights laws that affect their lives and the lives of their children so dramatically. Your concise, practical commentaries on specific sections of the law and regulations should help parents see where they have been and where they should be going with regard to their children’s education. As an attorney and advocate, I found it helpful in reducing the cacaphony about IDEA into a useful framework. Thanks, Pete! Joanne Simon, Esq.
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