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All important decisions about your child’s education – eligibility, special education, and related services in your child’s IEP, educational progress, compensatory education (or “recovery services”) – are based on test Continue Reading →
As schools reopen, expect the IEP team to schedule a meeting or meetings to discuss your child’s eligibility for compensatory education. As your child’s advocate, you need to learn all you can about compensatory education now. Your child has no more time to waste. Continue Reading →
“We adopted our son from another country three years ago. He is now nine years old, in the 3rd grade. He did not speak English when he arrived in this Continue Reading →
In May 2020, Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge invited four special education attorneys to a webinar for parents, “Special Education in the COVID-19 Quarantine.” The attorneys, Pete Wright, Jack Robinson, Piper Paul, Continue Reading →
My son is in his senior year and has ADHD. He has an IEP. If he can’t pass the competency test, the school will give him a certificate, not a Continue Reading →
“My child is 14. When I requested a transition plan and transition services, the IEP team said they don’t have to provide transition services until he is 16. Is this Continue Reading →
How does an IEP team determine if a special needs student is entitled to services such as Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy? Is the school team allowed to say that Continue Reading →
Now available for Immediate Download in the Wrightslaw Store. Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2018 by Peter W.D. Wright and Pamela Darr Wright (ISBN 978-1-892320-47-6, 146 pages). $19.95 Continue Reading →
ESY services are different from summer school, summer remedial classes, and summer enrichment programs. Be prepared – this problem is not unusual! Don’t let “never happened” impact your child’s ESY. Continue Reading →
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