Results
Legal > Advocacy
Your First Call to a Parent Training and Information Center: What to Have Ready
...parents expect it to. An advocate who can read the school's own words can often tell you within minutes whether a required notice never went out or a legal timeline has already been missed, and that changes what you ask for next. If your child doesn't have an IEP or...
Parenting > Adulthood
Letter of Intent for Special Needs Planning: What to Include
A letter of intent is not a legal document. No court enforces it, no attorney needs to review it, and you can...the document a stranger would need to take over your job tomorrow. Not the legal job of guardian or trustee. The daily job. The one where you know your son...
Global Insights > Advocacy
How to Document Your Disability for IEP Advocacy Without Oversharing
...access to education in a way that requires specialized instruction or related services. That's it. A comprehensive medical biography isn't part of the legal standard, and a school psychologist who asks for one is asking for more than the law requires. For most eligibility categories, this means a current...
Parenting > Adulthood
Transition from High School: A Year-by-Year Timeline for Planning Adult Life
A year-by-year roadmap from age 14 through graduation for IEP transition planning, adult services, and legal decisions.
Legal > Advocacy
Parent Training and Information Centers: Free Advocacy Help in Every State
PTI centers offer free, one-on-one help with IEPs, 504 plans, and school disputes. Here's how they work and how to find yours.
Education > Special Education
Your Legal Rights When a School Denies Extended School Year Services
...there's nothing left to do. Pushing back feels like picking a fight with people who write the rules for a living. Extended School Year services are a legal entitlement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, not a summer perk a district hands out when staffing allows, and a denial triggers...
Legal > Government Benefits
25 States Sue to Block Medicaid's New Work Requirements Rule for Disabled Adults
25 states sued CMS over its Medicaid work-requirements rule, arguing the disability exemption is narrower than Congress intended.
Therapies > Speech
How to Request a Speech Therapy Evaluation Through Your School
...about his speech," or a comment at a conference creates goodwill but no legal obligation. The school can act on it, or it can quietly slide to the bottom...days you're working with. What to Put in Writing. The letter doesn't need legal language. It needs three...
Health > Alternative Medicine
THC vs CBD: What Parents Need to Know About Cannabis Products
...where accidental exposure happens. The Legal Definition That Confuses Everyone....Bill defines hemp, and by extension legal CBD, as cannabis containing no more...plant, including THC up to that 0.3% legal limit. Companies market full-spectrum...effect in a small child, where even a legal, small dose of THC is a larger relative...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Delayed Its DDA Wage Cuts One Day Before They Started. Here's What Self-Directing Families Should Do Now.
Maryland delayed DDA wage cuts one day before they took effect. New deadlines now land in August and October. Here's what changed.
News > Advocacy
Minnesota Just Disenrolled 61% of Its Medicaid Disability Providers. Other States Are Running the Same Audit. Here's What Families Need to Do Now.
...site visits. Some were listed as "pending" when the deadline passed and were disenrolled anyway. Roughly 800 have filed appeals. Some are pursuing legal action. This is not a Minnesota story. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered all 50 states to run the same revalidation process....
Legal > Government Benefits
Six States Won't Accept Self-Attestation for the Medicaid Disability Work Exemption. Here's What Families in Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, and Utah Need to Do.
Six states opted out of self-attestation for the disability work exemption. Here's what documentation you need now.