We are answering questions about how COVID-19 is affecting your child's special education and how to get your child's education back on track.
Survey Results: What Parents Really Think of Special Education During School Closures
Can IEP Meetings Be Postponed Until After Schools Re-Open? Includes timelines for initial IEPs, annual IEPs, revising IEPs, online / remote IEP meetings from federal law.
How to Prepare for IEP Meetings, Provide Info, Share Concerns
Understanding Your Child's Test Scores
A Parent Wants to Delay Her Child's IEP Until Fall: Will the School Be in Compliance if We Grant her Request?
How to Use Teletherapy for Therapy and Related Services During COVID-19
Contingency Learning Plans (CLPs): What? Why? How to Respond?
The School Closed Suddenly and I Need Help!
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Closed My Child's School: Now What?
Advocacy Rule #1: Write Things Down When They Happen
How to Request Services in the Child's IEP (Sample Letter)
How to Document a Problem and Request a Meeting (Sample Letter)
Compensatory Education - What Does the Law Say?
Available Now! Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Video Training
If you can't attend a live Wrightslaw training program, you can still learn about the law and advocacy skills from Pete Wright. The Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Video Training includes all the content of a live 6 hour program... and more than an hour of bonus content. Avaiable as an immediate download from the Wrightslaw Store.
Hot Topics in Special Education Law and Advocacy
Disability Discrimination: MA School District Must Pay Parapro $85,699 in Back Pay and Compensatory Damages.
Survey Results! What Parents Think of Special Education During School Closures
Persistent Myths About IEPs, 504s, College Admissions and Accommodations
Special Education / Education
Five Mistakes Parents Make (and How to Learn from Them)
Transition Planning: Setting Lifelong Goals
Why You Need to Begin Transition Planning Early
Do Colleges Have to Follow IEPs or 504 Plans?
Law School Exam - Give it a try.
For a year and a half, Pete and Pam Wright were Adjunct Professors of Law at the William and Mary School of Law where they taught a course about special education law and advocacy and assisted in creating the Law School's Special Education Law Clinic. They are co-founders and faculty at the William and Mary Law School Institute of Special Education Advocacy (ISEA).
Take the Final Exam that Pete and Pam administered to their students at the William & Mary School of Law.
To see one of their law students during oral argument in a case about Least Restrictive Environment, click here.
Quick Reference: IDEA Statute and Regulations
Free Flyers, Resources, Pubs
IDEA
2004 Resources
Help
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Need to find an attorney, advocate, tutor, therapist in your state? Visit the Yellow
Pages for Kids with Disabilities
Books, Training Downloads, DVDs & Websites
Pete and Pam Wright are co-authors of several books published by Harbor House Law Press.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-1-892320-16-2, 456 pages) available in two formats, as a print publication and as a print and e-book combo.
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition (978-1-892320-09-4, 338 pages)
Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind with Suzanne Whitney [OUT OF PRINT] (ISBN: 978-1-892320-12-4) This statute (NCLB) has been replaced with Every Student Succeeds Act. NCLB is old law and only available from Wrightslaw as an adobe.pdf download. We have taken our print version out of circulation.
Wrightslaw: All About IEPs (ISBN: 978-1-892320-20-9, 192 pages) by Pete Wright, Pam Wright, and Sue O'Connor.
Wrightslaw: All About Tests and Assessments, 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-1-892320-31-5, 200 pages) by Pete Wright, Pam Wright, and Melissa Farrall.
Surviving Due Process: Stephen Jeffers v. School Board DVD Video - award-winning documentary, 2 hours
Wrightslaw Multimedia Training Programs - Understanding Your Child's Test Scores (1.5 hrs) and Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Training (6.5 hrs).
Year in Review Series
Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2018 (ISBN: 978-1-892320-47-6, 146 pages) available as an immediate PDF download.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2017 (ISBN: 978-1-892320-42-1, 125 pages) available as an immediate PDF download and Print book/PDF Combo.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2016 (ISBN: 978-1-892320-40-7, 120 pages) available as an immediate PDF download.
Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2015 (ISBN: 978-1-892320-37-7, 104 pages) available as an immediate PDF download.
The above 2015 through 2018 books are available in our online store as an immediate single download zipped file for $49.95. It unzips into four separate PDF books. Our 2019 Year in Review book will be released in June, 2020.
Print books in the Year in Review Series are available on Amazon.
Pete and Pam built several websites to help parents of children with
disabilities in their quest for quality special education programs.
Fetaweb.com, the companion website to Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, has advocacy information and resources to supplement the FETA book.
IDEA 2004 at Wrightslaw provides current information about the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004). Learn about new requirements
for IEPs, IEP teams, IEP meetings, eligibility, evaluations, eligibility for specific
learning disabilities, child find, reevaluations, parental consent, accommodations,
alternate assessments, transition, and more.
At the Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities,
you'll find listings for educational consultants, advocates, advisors,
psychologists, diagnosticians, health care specialists, academic tutors,
speech language therapists, and attorneys. You'll also find government
programs, grassroots organizations, disability organizations, legal and
advocacy resources, special education schools, and parent support
groups.
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