Special Education Law and Advocacy
Trish: I am a speech clinician in a school district, assigned to Middle & High. I’ve been told students classified Speech Lang.Impaired, must receive speech services. If the student has Continue Reading →
lldiko: I have read somewhere that a parent should give consent to the school or to the IEP Team about putting a child in isolation room, time out room, CPI. Continue Reading →
Phil: If a parent refuses consent for reevaluation testing for a new area of consideration, does the school district have the right to proceed with a due process complaint?
Lynne: Gave parental consent to allow school to do an adaptive evaluation on child. Evaluation was completed approx. two months before the end of the school year. We received a Continue Reading →
Tammy: My son was in public school for three years, online school for 1 month, and last in a charter school for 6 months. I recently had to pull him Continue Reading →
Hope: Can you please explain IEP “Consent for Release of Information to the Agency for Health Care Administration”? I keep asking but never get a real answer as to what Continue Reading →
Donna: I am a freshman student at a community college with asperger syndrome. I was confronted and questioned by my accounting professor that my project was good, “in fact too Continue Reading →
Ildiko: The team would not listen to my suggestions, asked them to include them in IEP documents, they make note either twisting what I said or not writing it down. Continue Reading →
Informed Consent: Florida districts are discounting informed consent given as part of a parental letter of initial request for eval (“This letter and my signature to serve as informed consent Continue Reading →
Mary: My son has been dx with anxiety. Anxiety is a neurobiological disorder. His medical team and I believe his ED classification ought to be changed from ED to OHI. Continue Reading →
