Behavior: BAD BEHAVIOR IN CLASS
Janice: I have a child in my class who severley disrupts the whole class to the extent where it IS having a negative impact on the students who want to Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Question
Goals: ADDING ACADEMIC GOALS TO A SPEECH IEP
Lori: Can academic goals for a student, far below grade level, be added to an existing speech IEP or does the full SPED assessment have to happen to add academic Continue Reading →
IEP Meeting: ATTENDEES AT THE IEP MEETING
Tom: Can a parent require (beside whom the law says must attend) require specific staff to attend an IEP meeting? Can a parent require the students entire teaching team to Continue Reading →
IEPs: IEP MEETING AND DOCUMENTED NEED FOR FUTURE SERVICES
Mike: My daughter is deaf and hears with a cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. In one month, she will be receiving her second Continue Reading →
Evaluations: SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST REFUSES TO EVALUATE IF PARENT REQUEST IS VERBAL NOT WRITTEN
d: A teacher informed the newly hired school psychologist (the third psychologist this year) that a parent verbally requested that their child be tested to see of the child still Continue Reading →
Visual Impairment: ADVOCACY AND SERVICES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Donna: My son has a visual impairment. What materials do you suggest I get to best advocate for him and receive the services he needs? Right now he is in Continue Reading →
Non-Verbal: SCHOOL HAS NON-VERBAL SON PLAY WITH DVD / IPAD FOR HOURS
Carmen: My son has numerous disabilities. He is non-verbal. He has a nurse that attends school with him. The nurse has been with my son for 2 1/2 years. My Continue Reading →
Educational Records: HEAD ADMIN AT SCHOOL & SPED FAILED TO FOLLOW FERPA
Erin: Our school administrator and then the sped. director for the town did not provide us with our child’s records (4 years of testing data we didn’t even know they Continue Reading →
Graduation: TRANSITION GOALS NOT MASTERED, CAN SCHOOL FORCE GRADUATION?
Kellie: At the end of my daughter’s senior year she will have earned the required amount of credits to graduate. She will not, however, have mastered her IEP/transition goals. We Continue Reading →
Absences: SCHOOL INSISTS MARKING UNEXCUSED FOR DAUGHTER WITH CHRONIC MIGRAINES AND TREATMENT PLAN
RIchelle: My daughter has chronic migraines, and frequently has had to leave school or has missed entire days because of her migraines. We have tried several different methods of controlling Continue Reading →
