{"id":21645,"date":"2017-05-18T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=21645"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:51:51","slug":"does-your-child-need-a-specific-plan-for-emergency-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/does-your-child-need-a-specific-plan-for-emergency-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Child Need a Specific Plan for Emergency Evacuation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Does%20Your%20Child%20Need%20a%20Specific%20Plan%20for%20Emergency%20Evacuation%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>Imagine, for a moment, that you are strapped to a wheel chair on the landing of a stairwell while of your peers and school staff exit the building, leaving you behind!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheltering in place should be the option of very last resort, especially if the building is on fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robust emergency and evacuation planning should be part of every student\u2019s IEP or 504 process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/boys.girl.friends.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/span> On April 4, 2017, the MD Senate passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legiscan.com\/MD\/bill\/HB1061\/2017\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">HB 1061<\/span><\/a>. The Bill is now on the way to Governor&#8217;s desk for signature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary MD HB 1061:<\/strong> Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2017, in consultation with disability advocacy groups, to update specified guidelines to accommodate, safeguard, and evacuate students, staff, and visitors with disabilities on public school grounds; requiring each local school system, on or before July, 2018, to update the local school system&#8217;s emergency plan based on a specified update of the Department&#8217;s guidelines and regulations; etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a child with special evacuation needs, make sure this is on the agenda for the next IEP team meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the evacuation plan is complete, add it to the IEP or 504 Plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lori Scott, mother, nurse, advocate, and health care consultant for special needs schools, says, &#8220;Every school must design an emergency evacuation plan for individual students who have special needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This includes students who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have physical disabilities<\/li>\n<li>have sensory disabilities<\/li>\n<li>may lack understanding of a situation<\/li>\n<li>are unable to act quickly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Mobility is not the only concern.<\/em> Some students may be mobile, but are unable to seek refuge or exit the building by themselves without assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Preplanning for natural disasters is imperative!<\/p>\n<p>School systems must have the capacity to move all students, staff, and visitors with disabilities to a safe location immediately at the time of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/emer.evac.plans.scott.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Emergency Evacuation Planning for Students with Disabilities by Lori Scott RN, BSN, MS.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/17\/nl.0404.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Emergency Evacuation Plans in the IEP<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Special Ed Advocate Newsletter 04\/04\/2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine, for a moment, that you are strapped to a wheel chair on the landing of a stairwell while of your peers and school staff exit the building, leaving you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/does-your-child-need-a-specific-plan-for-emergency-evacuation\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1453,1454],"class_list":["post-21645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ieps","tag-emergency-evacuation-planning","tag-evacuation-plans-in-the-iep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21719,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}