Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities, With Downloadable Forms - Softcover

Siegel, Lawrence M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413323952 ISBN 13: 9781413323955

Publisher: Nolo, 2017

Synopsis

How to advocate for your child's education.

Many children have learning disabilities—and it’s up to parents and schools to work together to ensure that each child’s unique educational needs are met. But what if the school disagrees with your goals for your child? You are at a disadvantage if you don’t know the law.

This book teaches you to:

• identify a learning disability
• understand your child's rights to education
• untangle eligibility rules and evaluations
• prepare and make your best case to school administrators
• develop IEP goals and advocate for their adoption,
• explore and choose the best programs and services.
  

Written by an expert who’s fought for kids for many years, the 7th edition covers two key Supreme Court decisions and new developments in special ed vouchers, and provides the forms, sample letters, resources, and encouragement you need.

About this title

Review

"In this useful guide, parents may find the support they need for a long and often lonely process." The New York Times

"Provides parents and advocates an excellent resource to address the educational needs of all students with learning disabilities. I highly recommend this book! " Terence K. Prechter Learning Disabilities Association of California

"Makes the IEP process accessible and usable for parents and professionals. I give it my highest recommendation." Joseph Feldman Community Alliance for Special Education

"Help[s] parents advocate for their child's educational needs." Providence Journal

"Siegel, a special education attorney and advocate, helps parents advocate for children with learning disabilities and understand the individualized education program (IEP) process. He explains special education law and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the definition and signs of a learning disability, getting started and developing an IEP blueprint for the child's education, the role of evaluations, eligibility, gathering information and evidence, developing goals, preparing for and attending the IEP meeting, resolving disputes through due process, filing a complaint, finding a lawyer and doing legal research, and joining a parent organization. The guide focuses on helping children aged 3-22 and does not address transition services to prepare children for a job or college, including independent living skills, or discipline issues like suspension and expulsion. Forms, sample letters, and resources are available online." Eithne O'Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView

" Nolo's IEP Guide is the best available guide that combines legal information with practical advice. It gives parents the step-by-step instructions they need to navigate the complicated process of creating and maintaining an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) for their child with a learning disability, teaching parents how to advocate for their child's education. After working through Nolo's IEP Guide, readers will be prepared to advocate for their child to receive the free appropriate public education that is guaranteed to all children who need special education services. "Savvy Jones, Review Editor, SirReadaLot.org

About the Author

Lawrence Siegel has been a Special Education Attorney and Advocate since 1979, and has represented children with disabilities extensively in IEPs, due process, complaints, legal action and before legislative and policy bodies. Mr. Siegel has lectured and consulted with advocacy and parent groups throughout the country and is a member of the California Advisory Commission on Special Education. He has written special education legislation that has been adopted in several states and is the author of Least Restrictive Environment: The Paradox of Inclusion (LRP Publications, 1994). Mr. Siegel is the founder and Director of the National Deaf Education Project which works to ensure that the fundamental communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children are part of the educational system. In 2004-5 he was appointed to an endowed chair at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. for his work as an advocate of special education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nolo
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1413323952
• ISBN 13: 9781413323955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442