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My Child Needs PE. May I request that the school put at least 10 minutes a day of physical activity for my child on his IEP? If your child has Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Placement
School Ends IEP: “Disability No Longer Affects Education”?
I have an 8 year old in second grade who can now walk around after 80 different corrective surgeries. He has popliteal pterygium syndrome with his knees in a contracted Continue Reading →
“Yee Haw, Howdy, Amen” – When Schools Make Up their Mind in Advance!
Special education services, especially ABA services for children with autism, are expensive. In most states, demand is increasing. At the same time, for many programs, local funding is decreasing. Is Continue Reading →
Day 4, Live Blogging from the Institute of Special Ed Advocacy
Thursday, July 26, 2012 Wrightslaw is live blogging all week. We hope you will join us for Day 4 from the Institute of Special Education Advocacy (ISEA). Day 1 Day Continue Reading →
Live Blogging from the Institute of Special Education Advocacy – Please Join Us!
Wrightslaw is live blogging from the Institute of Special Education Advocacy (ISEA) all week. We hope you will join us! Day 1 Day 2 & 3 Day 4 Continue Reading →
Adverse Consequences of NOT Knowing the Law
The results of an independent evaluation show that our son had dyslexia and dysgraphia. We asked the district to evaluate our son as well, and they refused. We left the Continue Reading →
Changing Placement: Helpful Legal References
My principal is requiring that I have meetings to change students’ IEPs to correct the location of services under the direct service hours part of their IEPs. All of their Continue Reading →
To Wrightslaw – “Thanks for Taking the Heat”
I know that you get a lot of heat, but I can testify that it is very hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you Continue Reading →
Child is Disrupting My Class – What Can I Do?
I am a general education teacher. One of my students, who has an IEP, interrupts class several times a day. It is not uncommon for him to blurt out on- Continue Reading →
Special Education: NOT the Resource Room, the Classroom in the Trailer, or the Special School Across Town
Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? “Special education” under IDEA is not a place Continue Reading →