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Legal > Government Benefits
When Your Child with Disabilities Can Work While Receiving SSI
...is a needs-based program. The Social Security Administration (SSA) counts income when determining benefit amounts,...rules. The most relevant for young adults still in school is the Student Earned Income Exclusion. Student...students under 22 who are regularly attending school exclude up to $2,290 of earned income per month...
Special Needs > Diabetes
Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management
...dark. Now the school wants to meet about...need during the school day. It's named...funding. Every public school in the country...be in it, what schools sometimes resist,...management during school hours. Your child...monitoring, insulin administration, carbohydrate intake,...diabetes care (school nurse, trained...handled (glucagon administration, when to call 911)...
Education > Special Education
What It Means If Special Education Moves Out of the Department of Education
...but it's working in the background every time a school follows an IEP or a state holds a district accountable...it's the office that steps in when states or school districts fall short: reviewing whether states...that protects your child gets enforced. What the Administration Is Planning. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
Why can't my kid get organized!?: ADHD and Executive Functioning
...so frustrated with my son this early into the school year. J is almost eleven and because he has ADHD...in Tarzana, CA. Dear Mark,The beginning of the school year often reanimates behaviors that we, as parents,...question is how aware is your son's teacher and the administration regarding his condition? Is he on some type of...
Education > Special Education
Trump Budget Proposes Eliminating Special Education and Disability Programs. Here's What Families Can Do.
The Trump administration's proposed FY2027 budget calls for the complete elimination of multiple...advocates who can attend IEP meetings with them or explain what to do when a school denies services. IDEA Preschool Grants (Section 619) fund early intervention...
News > Employment
Trump's Budget Would Eliminate Disability Employment Programs. Congress Rejected This Last Year. Here's What Families Can Do.
...Congress rejected nearly identical cuts when the administration proposed them for FY2026. These programs fund...help young adults with disabilities move from school to competitive employment. Without them, families...Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration: Client Assistance State Grants help people...
News > Education
Education Secretary Says Special Ed Could Be Split Between Labor and HHS. What Families With IEPs Need to Know.
...made. This marks the first time the administration has confirmed that IDEA programs,...testimony, McMahon confirmed that the administration is exploring options for relocating...evaluations, and accommodations in public schools. Right now, the Department of Education...complaints, and provides guidance to school districts. Splitting IDEA programs...
Education > Special Education
IDEA at 50: What Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Could Mean for Your Child's Services
...preparation programs, technical assistance to schools, and research dissemination, would be zeroed...would be zeroed out as a standalone program. The administration's plan is to fold this money into the larger...in the proposed budget. Separately, the Trump administration has indicated...
Parenting > General
What the 2026 Federal Education Budget Fight Means for Your Child's IEP
...enforce it, and the agency that backs you up when schools don't comply. Here's what's being proposed,...flow through one funding stream instead. The administration has framed this as an increase: the core IDEA...With 50 states and widely varying levels of administrative capacity, how that money gets divided would...
Parenting > General
The System Navigator's Toolkit: Coordinating Multiple Specialists and Services
...therapists working from different treatment plans, two school districts that lost your intake paperwork, and...and don't have interoperability mandates, the administrative load lands on families. You didn't sign up to...forms, you copy-paste from the master. When the school nurse needs med updates, you send the link. When...
Education > Accommodations
Special Education Advocacy and Charter Schools
...charter schools are primary...secondary schools created...public schools which...charter schools, charter...charter school are attended...alternative to schools operated...local school district....charter school has the...Charter schools are not...charter schools must...operated schools. Just...operated schools, a charter...charter school has the...charter school because...charter school must...charter school fails...through an administrative hearing...operated school. As the...
Education > Accommodations
Tips to Support your Child with Selective Mutism Transition Back to School
...settings, most typically at school, even though they can (usually)...making the transition back into school often quite difficult. In...response to the challenges of the school, here are a variety of strategies...principal of your child's school and have this administrator...child's school and have this administrator arrange for your child with...