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Therapies > Animal
Therapy Dogs in Schools: How Canine Programs Support Students with Special Needs
...because they have learned that anything happening to their child during the school day is worth understanding before it starts, not after. So here is what...almost anywhere its handler goes. A therapy dog goes where it is invited. The school can end the program on a Tuesday and nobody has violated anyone's rights....
News > Advocacy
Federal Data That Tracks How Schools Serve Students With Disabilities Is Six Months Overdue. Here's What Parents Should Know.
...can: it shows whether a school's treatment of disabled...Collection covers every public school in the country, tracking...students get identified for special education. It has run...covering the 2023-24 school year were due out last...students get identified for special education, and disciplined...record that surfaces which schools restrain or seclude disabled...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Adapted Physical Education: What Schools Must Provide
...Education (APE) isn't a favor the school extends when resources allow. It's...participation in general physical education. Schools don't get to budget it away or defer...matters because related services in special education carry specific procedural...carry specific procedural protections. Schools can't remove APE without an IEP meeting...
News > Education
Louisiana Just Advanced a Bill That Would Make Schools Prove They're Correctly Serving Your Child in Special Ed. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...of proof in special education due...parents to school districts. Currently,...must prove the school failed them....them. Last school year in Louisiana,...challenge to the school system. If signed...This Matters. Special education due...their child's school isn't providing...showing the school failed to properly...agreed-upon services. Schools, by contrast,...it, "These school districts hold...
Education > Special Education
New Hampshire Shifted the Due Process Burden to Schools in IEP Disputes. Is Your State Next?
...parent files a due process complaint against a school district over an IEP, most states put the burden...means you walk into the hearing room and prove the school failed your child. The district sits across the...581, shifting the burden from the parent to the school district. Now, when a parent files for due process...
News > Education
Three School Employees Were Arrested for Abusing Children with Disabilities in a Special Education Classroom. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...Morton Elementary School in Franklin, Virginia...autistic children in a special education classroom,...retaliation at the same school. This case exposes...exposes how children in special education, especially...staff conduct in a special education classroom....Franklin City Public Schools completed an internal...the classroom. The school district hasn't publicly...
Education > Special Education
IEP Services Can't Be Cut by a Budget Crisis. Here's How to Hold Your School Accountable.
...shrink when your school district's budget...need to know: a school district's budget...right now because school budgets are under...the Office of Special Education Programs...which provide schools $7.5 billion...annually for special education services...shows 80% of school leaders expect...their IEP, and a school's inability to...is entitled to special education and...
News > Education
New Hampshire's Open Enrollment Bill Would Force Schools to Accept Students with Disabilities. Here's What Families with IEPs and 504 Plans Need to Know.
...enrollment bill that would prohibit school districts from rejecting transfer...marks a significant protection for school-choice families. Students with IEPs...Changes. Under the proposed legislation, school districts can't turn away transfer...home district would continue to pay special education costs under IDEA. But the...
Education > Other
Charter Schools and Special Education: Understanding Your Legal Rights
...charter school for your...at the school just told...considered other schools in the..."specialize in special education."...that the school may be...Charter schools are public...public schools that receive...public school in the...charter schools must accept...charter school is discouraging...when a school violates...governs special education...public schools. It applies...charter school that receives...
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
Managing MS Fatigue in Children: What Parents and Schools Need to Know
Your child comes home from school exhausted. Not the kind of tired that follows a...of rest seems to fix. You know it's the MS. The school thinks it's behavior. MS fatigue is the most common...for their peers. What MS Fatigue Looks Like at School. Teachers often miss it. The signs don't look like...
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
School Accommodations for Children with Multiple Sclerosis
...exists. Why MS Symptoms Often Go Unsupported in Schools. Most educators have never encountered pediatric...roughly 3 to 5 percent of all MS diagnoses, and many schools go years without a single case. When your child's...When your child's symptoms are invisible, the school's default assumption is that your child is capable...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
You spent high school with extended time on tests,...covers K–12 students because schools must identify and support students...Changes When You Leave High School. Under IDEA, your school was...High school. Under IDEA, your school was required to evaluate you,...process was driven by the school. In college, you own the process....