Jun 21, 2013 | Advocacy, IDEA, Special Education |
As I patiently awaited the final ruling regarding the transportation issue, http://www.ped.state.nm.us/seo/library/transguide.pdf I continued to network and learn. The closest established resource was Parent to Parent of Miami and I joined them and was receiving...
Jun 18, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, IEPs, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Public School |
The complaint was filed and we would have to await the ruling. The length of time for the complaint investigation to be processed by OCR was considerably longer than that under the State complaint. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocrcpm.html) OCR can...
Jun 16, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
The next attempt at advocating for my son was to look at basic civil rights law. I read about Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and how it was an equal access law (http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/faqs.html). It was a comparison between children with...
Jun 11, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
Finally in the mail a response to the complaint. I had prevailed on the Least Restrictive Environment issue. (http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/participation) As a result my son began moving out of the self-contained classroom and back into the regular...
Jun 4, 2013 | Advocacy, Deafness, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Inclusion, Parent Involvement, Public School |
Our continued pressure on the School Board had drawn the attention of the local media and several articles had appeared in our local newspaper. The public disclosure brought out support from our community in trying to bring our children back. There was also the...
May 29, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
My first attempt at filing a state complaint was to try to find a way to get my son returned to his neighborhood school. (http://nichcy.org/schoolage/disputes/statecomplaint#summary) His placement in the special school program was in a self-contained classroom. When...
May 25, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
We began to meet as a small parent group and look at what options were available to us. We asked to be placed on the School Board agenda and went before our elected officials to state our case. (http://mn.gov/mnddc/pipm/makingyourcase/index.html) I understood that...
May 22, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Public School |
When I walked into the IEP meeting, the first thing I noticed was that there were some new people in attendance. One identified herself as the Special Education Director who was there representing the school board....
May 22, 2013 | Disability, IEPs, Public School |
My son was doing well as he entered into the third grade. He was an accepted part of hisclass, school and community. Yes he was the only student with hearing loss but he could read lips and with his residual hearing amplified could hear some on the lower spectrum of...
May 17, 2013 | Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Public School |
We entered into the public school system and my son was placed in regular class at his neighborhood school with four hours a week instruction from a teacher of the hearing impaired and an hour of support from a speech pathologist. He was also provided a FM system to...
