Better IEPS:  How to Develop Legally Correct  and  Educationally Useful Programs by  Barbara D. Bateman and Mary Anne Linden ISBN: 1-57035-164-3  Sopris Product Code: 63IEP

Updated and Revised!        Includes IDEA Amendments of 1997

Since 1977, every child in the United States who has a disability and needs special education has been entitled to a free appropriate public education under a federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

1997, Congress amended the IDEA to strengthen the role of parents, increase the involvement of regular education teachers, ensure access to the general education curriculum, focus on teaching and learning while reducing unnecessary paperwork, increase accommodation of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, ensure schools are safe and conducive to learning, and encourage parents and educators to resolve differences through nonadversarial means.

The heart of the law is the child's written Individualized Educational Program (IEP). Better IEPs gives special educators, regular educators, and parents the confidence and know-how to develop IEPs that are both legally correct and educationally useful. Currently many IEPs are neither.

Better IEPs presents a powerful, three-step IEP process that focuses on the individual student and avoids the all too common routinized approach to program development. This "how-to" guide will empower IEP teams to plan for and provide an appropriate education by:
 

Following the correct sequence of identification IEP development placement

• Involving parents in the IEP process

• Individualizing the IEP for each student

• Creating measurable goals and objectives

• Addressing behavior & discipline

• Specifying appropriate ways to evaluate IEP effectiveness

• Complying with procedural requirements

• Safeguarding students' and parents' rights under the law
Better IEPs: How to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs is the definitive guide to understanding, writing, implementing, and obtaining the most from IEPs. Better IEPs an essential reference for school administrators, advocates, special educators, and parents of children receiving special education services.

You can order Better IEPs from Sopris West. Their toll-free telephone number for orders is (800) 547-6747. Sopris accepts personal checks, money orders, and credit card payment (MasterCard and VISA). They accept credit card (prepaid) orders by telephone. The cost of Better IEPs is $19.50

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"Better IEPs:" Sopris Product Code: 63IEP.

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