{"id":4830,"date":"2011-03-14T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2011-03-14T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:07:25","slug":"recovering-expert-witness-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/recovering-expert-witness-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Expert Witness Fees"},"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=\"Recovering%20Expert%20Witness%20Fees\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ISO Stories about Parents Who Could Not Afford Expert Witnesses for Due Process<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without experts, parents and students with disabilities have little chance of success in due process hearings, and poor and middle-income families suffer the most.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autcom.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Autism National Committee<\/span><\/a> is seeking stories about parents who could not afford expert witnesses for IDEA due process hearings to share with members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates are working in support of a Congressional bill that would enable parents to recover expert witness fees for IDEA due process hearings and cases.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Autcom is\u00a0 looking for parents who would be willing to share their stories about being unable to afford expert witnesses with members of Congress. These could be families who were unable to go to a due process hearing because they could not afford it.\u00a0 They could also be parents who went to due process but their case suffered badly without expert witnesses. They could be parents whom the school district took to a due process hearing, but they could not afford expert witnesses they needed to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The parents&#8217; stories will ultimately be shared with members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact <a href=\"mailto:jessica@jnba.net\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jessica Butler<\/span><\/a>, Congressional Affairs Coordinator, Autism National Committee, at <a href=\"mailto:jessica@jnba.net\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">jessica@jnba.net<\/span><\/a> if you have helpful stories or if you would like more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autcom.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Autism National Committee<\/span><\/a> at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autcom.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.autcom.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISO Stories about Parents Who Could Not Afford Expert Witnesses for Due Process Without experts, parents and students with disabilities have little chance of success in due process hearings, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/recovering-expert-witness-fees\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1271,1266,1273],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-due-process","category-political-action","tag-expert-witness-fees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","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=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}