In This Issue ...
Circulation: 98,627
ISSN: 1538-320
May 24, 2016
  
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 In developing IEPs, use the “IDEA mission statement” as your long-term goal. - Pete Wright.
The purpose of IDEA is to meet the unique needs of your child - not the class, not the teacher, not the school, not the district budget.
Do not accept these statements from the school.
- We don't have to do it.
- We don't have money in the budget.
- We can't make exceptions.
- We have never done that before.
In this issue of the Special Ed Advocate learn about the school's responsibility to provide your child with an education tailored to his unique needs and to prepare your child for further education, employment and independent living. Find the legal authority in IDEA.
We hope you will forward this issue to other friends, families, or colleagues.
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Checklist: Individualized IEPs
Is Your Child's IEP Meeting His Unique Needs?
When you answer the questions on this IEP Checklist, you will know if your child's IEP is individualized to meet his unique needs, as the law requires.
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Purpose of IDEA is Your Mission Statement
Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition, p. 48. Learn what the law requires.
. . . to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment and independent living . . . 20 U. S. C. §1400(d).
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Unique Needs are Changing, We Need a New IEP!
This child's IEP is only for communication issues, but he now has serious social, emotional, and behavioral issues in school. The school is saying there is nothing they can do unless his diagnosis is changed - a new IEP could take months. What do we do NOW?
There is no excuse for the school not to act.
When the school thinks the IEP needs to be changed, the school needs to be doing the evaluation – not asking the parent to get another diagnosis.
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