I’m a mother and a special-education advocate, and I have dyslexia. Many parents have confided in me that they had a “hunch” that something was not right with their child. More often than not, a parent’s hunch turns out to be correct.
As a part of my interview series about the things that should be done to improve the US educational system I had the pleasure to interview
It is not uncommon for a potential client to tell us they think their child needs paraprofessional support (sometimes thought of as a “one on
WHAT TO DO BEFORE THE MEETING With An Advocate Review Your IEP Goals A brief phone call or consultation to ensure you’re on the same
Parents of Children with Special Needs have a Right to Work with their School to Improve Student Behavior. Learn the Four Steps: It’s common for
Special Needs Rights During the Coronavirus Pandemic Home/Posts/coronavirus, Distance learning, home schooling, IDEA, IEP, online learning/Special Needs Rights Pandemic This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.
Today Allison Hertog won an IEP due process hearing for a special needs child with a severe form of epilepsy. The School Board of Broward
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) with co-counsel Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and Florida attorneys, Alice K. Nelson and Allison
Today our triplet clients had another huge win against the Miami-Dade County School District – the fourth largest in the country. We’re so thrilled to report
An Administrative Law Judge of the State of Florida Division of Administrative Hearings (Case Nos. 145679E, 145668E, 145669E) ruled last month that the MiamiDade County
Charter schools and special education. Two concepts antithetical to each other? Not in my book. A handful of public charters are already doing a bang-up
The short answer is a resounding, YES. As you may have heard, after New York announced that their test scores under the Common Core dropped
In the spring of 2012 the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a study concluding that charter schools enroll a lower percentage of special education students
If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably heard of the ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act – that’s the landmark piece of civil rights 1990
This issue is really getting to me lately. It seems I have several clients right now who have bright kids who are perfectly capable of
Every so often the government takes a powerful stance on the side of the less powerful. January 21, 2011 was one of those moments. On
Bullying is a hot topic in the news lately as well it should. And as a special education attorney I hear about students with
On June 4, Gov Charlie Christ signed into law the state’s first regulations for the use of restraint and seclusion on public school students with
I hear it less now than I used to, but parents still routinely ask whether I can help their child get a 1:1 aide (meaning
In this budgetary climate your school district has probably been very busy implementing some big changes – and one of the biggest directly affects how
In the past, as many of you know, it has been extremely difficult for a learning disabled student who has performed well in school by
One of the most challenging and infuriating areas in which I practice is advocating for the gifted and disabled (called “twice exceptional”) these days. I
More and more often I am advocating for children on the autism spectrum who are achieving at or above grade level, but whose IQ scores
RtI is a 3-tiered process of increasingly intensive research- based instruction which is part of federal law (IDEA 2004). At the end of the process
RtI is not only becoming a part of the general education curriculum, but it is also becoming a part of the eligibility process for special
The implementation of RtI (Response to Intervention), a new way to identify students as learning disabled, may result in delay or failure to properly identify
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