IGNORANCE IS OUR BIGGEST FOE!! Decide today to achieve your goal by understanding all there is to know about your particular area of interest in Special Education. Remember, if you're a parent, the most important thing to you should be your family! Make sure that you do everything possible to help your children live and succeed with the disabilities they may have. ~Source: The Special Education Home Page

Wright's Law
How to Write Powerful IEPs

Game Plan Good IEP Goals and Objectives

How to use a "Parent IEP Attachment" 

Game Plan How to Resolve an Eligibility Dispute

Wrightslaw Game Plan for the New Parent

Newsletter Special IEP Issue

Parent Advocacy Network
Basic Rights Manual
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Bring this book with you to any meetings you attend concerning your child (i.e., IEP meetings, visits with the pediatrician).

The Special Education Home Page
This may very well be the most comprehensive site on the net concerning special education.

7 major decision-making concerns to assure a child's academic progress.
1. Identification: Does my child have a disability for which special education services are mandated  and in which my child can be expected to benefit?
2. Assessment: What is it? Should I agree to have my child tested?
3. Who should do the assessment?
4. Does it make a difference if my child is classified under 504, ADA or IDEA regulations?
    a.Overview of ADA, IDEA, and Section 504
    b.Two-Headed Monster
    c.Section 504, the ADA, and Public Schools
What Educators Need to Know
5. What should be in an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)? The IEP needs specific, measurable, time-limited goals that match the child's learning needs. To find out more:
a.Developing Legally Correct and Educationally
Appropriate IEPs
b.Creating Useful Individualized Education
Programs (IEPs).
c.New IDEA '97 Requirements:
Factors To Consider in Developing an IEP
6. My child is not progressing. The school will not alter the IEP. They requested mediation. What is mediation? Should I agree? Answer:
Mediate Special Education Disputes
7. When should I request a due process hearing? (pdf)

Assessment Strategies
Examples of recording and careful
documentations of student progress.
This is a must to insure a student's
success in Special Education.

Transition to Adult Life:
Success in adult life is a goal we have for all students. Depending on the disability and the support services required in adult life, successful transition from high school to adult life may require that planning activities begin in elementary school with students exploring their interests in middle school.

Education or School-Related Problems
Classroom Impact and Tips, School-Based Occupational Therapists, Is homework a battleground in your house?, Having trouble organizing your concerns?, and much more.

Special Education Compliance
Measurable Goals & Objectives
Frequently Asked Questions

Reed Martin, J. D.
IEP Goals and Objectives

Your Procedural Safeguard 
of Written Prior Notice

Regular Education Teachers' Rights
In Special Education 

Getting Control of the IEP
Process Manual
IEP Checklist

Transition

Methodology belongs in your Child's IEP and must be discussed.
If you have been told that you can't discuss methodology, you have been misinformed.

IEP Technical Assistance Guide
This Guidebook was written to assist teachers, parents and other professionals involved in the IEP process.

A Parents United Together web-page
What to do Before, During and After an IEP meeting and Ten Ways to Take Charge of Your Child's IEP Meeting