{"id":7762,"date":"2012-08-20T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2012-07-18T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:36:27","slug":"poll-how-organized-is-your-childs-special-education-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/poll-how-organized-is-your-childs-special-education-file\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL:  How Organized is Your Child&#8217;s Special Education File?"},"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=\"POLL%3A%20%20How%20Organized%20is%20Your%20Child%27s%20Special%20Education%20File%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid black; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/papers.overwhelm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"95\" \/>Nina&#8217;s summer project last year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I organized all the documents I have into a chronological file as you suggest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/store\/feta.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">From Emotions to Advocacy<\/span><\/a>. It took months and is in 3 gigantic binders! But I have already had occasion to find things there several times. There were documents in there that I had totally forgotten I had.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How about you? Did you use this summer to do what Nina did?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">******************************************************************<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-13\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_13\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_13_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"4f592dabc5\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"13\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How Organized is Your Child's Special Education File?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-13-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-44\" name=\"poll_13\" value=\"44\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-44\">My binder(s) is up to date, ready for the first IEP meeting this fall.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-45\" name=\"poll_13\" value=\"45\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-45\">Mostly finished. I need to complete the \"significance\" column on my master list.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-46\" name=\"poll_13\" value=\"46\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-46\">My files are sorted and dated. I have not started on my document list.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-47\" name=\"poll_13\" value=\"47\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-47\">I just mailed my request letters for records. What else I have is still in grocery bags.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-48\" name=\"poll_13\" value=\"48\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-48\">Help! I don't know where to start.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   submit   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(13);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(13);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(13); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(13); return false;\" title=\"View all results\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-13-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p>If your child&#8217;s special education file is <strong>not<\/strong> complete, up-to-date, and ready for the next IEP meeting &#8211; it&#8217;s time to review&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/12\/ss.organize.file.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Summer School 2012: The Power of Getting Organized<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina&#8217;s summer project last year&#8230; I organized all the documents I have into a chronological file as you suggest in From Emotions to Advocacy. It took months and is in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/poll-how-organized-is-your-childs-special-education-file\/\">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":[3],"tags":[1303,977,978,96,372],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","tag-documentation","tag-master-document-list","tag-organizing-the-file","tag-paper-trail","tag-special-education-file"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","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=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}