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A Proactive Approach: How to Prepare for Challenging IEP Meetings
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Adverse Experiences and Child Development: Overcoming the Toxic Effects and Developing Trauma-Sensitive Schools
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Too often, IEP teams are blindsided by requests they are unprepared to address, or meetings get sidetracked by contentious interactions among participants.
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The past 10 years has seen an explosion of research related to the impact of trauma on brain development in children.
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Aligning Special Education IEPs and Services to Rigorous Core Standards
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Alternatives to Suspension: Creative and Effective Ways To Increase Your Graduation Rates
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Gain the knowledge and instructional tools essential to helping students with disabilities not only access, but master, the rigorous demands of state core standards.
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School suspension is one of the leading contributors to the nation’s alarming high school dropout rate.
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Assistive Technology Within the IEP Process: Developing Legally Compliant Best Practices
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Autism Methodology and the IEP Team: Strategies to Meet Students' Needs and IDEA Requirements
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The IDEA has always required schools to provide assistive technology to students with disabilities if the IEP team determines the child needs it to realize educational benefit.
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Autism methodology is perhaps the hottest area of litigation between parents of students with autism and school districts, and it comes down to this: Your IEP team needs to make balanced methodology decisions based on student need, legal requirements and the best practical compliance strategies.
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Before You Discipline Under Section 504: Legal Requirements and Key Considerations
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Beyond the Classroom: Post-Secondary Transition Planning for Students With Autism
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Make sure you and your staff members understand the crucial legal requirements and key factors that must be considered when disciplining a student with disabilities.
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With a new focus on career development, personal competence and life satisfaction, the outcomes of the transition process are being redefined beyond simple job placement.
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Bringing Instructional Coaches on Board: Enhance Your Title I Program and Boost Academic Achievement
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Buses, Vans and Automobiles: Transportation and Special Education
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More and more, districts and schools are turning to instructional coaching as a powerful intervention with great potential to improve teacher performance and raise academic achievement.
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When is transportation required, and what makes the transportation appropriate?
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Child Find and the Duty to Evaluate in an RTI World
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Creating Compliant Section 504 Plans for Students With Severe Food Allergies, Diabetes and Other Medical Conditions
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When there is sufficient reason to believe or suspect that a child has a disability and a need for special services, failure to timely refer and evaluate can lead to denial of FAPE claims.
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As the prevalence of children with allergies, chronic health conditions and special health care needs rises, so do the legal and practical challenges you and your staff face when meeting students’ needs at school and school-related activities.
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Determining Section 504 Eligibility: Establishing Criteria, Following Procedures
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Effective Interventions and Appropriate Placements for Aggressive Students
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When navigating through eligibility criteria and requirements established by Section 504, special educators must consider various rules and details to carry out the process effectively.
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Administrators and practitioners often struggle with chronic physical, social or verbal aggression from disabled and nondisabled students.
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Evaluation and Eligibility: Evolving Legal Trends and Best Practices for Compliance
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FBAs and BIPs: Staying Compliant and Addressing Misconduct With a Positive Approach
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When does a student qualify for IEP services? What do the courts say? And most importantly, what does it all mean to you?
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When misbehavior is a manifestation of a child's disability, punishment is not the answer.
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Food Allergies and Chronic Health Conditions: Meeting Students' Needs From the 504 Perspective
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From Contentious to Fruitful: Preparing for and Conducting the Difficult IEP Meeting
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When creating Section 504 plans for students with food allergies or other chronic health conditions, special educators must be aware of all their legal compliance responsibilities.
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How campus and special education staff handle a contentious IEP team meeting can mean the difference between smoothing over a difficult situation or escalating to due process proceedings.
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From Planning to Crisis Response: Legal Issues Related to School Safety and Students With Disabilities
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Getting a Handle on Your IDEA Prior Written Notice Obligations
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As school leaders focus more intensely on safety issues, it is imperative that the precautions and actions taken reflect consideration of students with disabilities -- both to ensure their safety and that any practices are legally compliant.
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Ensure team members have a full understanding regarding IDEA requirements for when and how to provide Prior Written Notice (PWN), with 90 minutes of guidance from veteran school law attorney Karen Haase.
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