The IEP team process and the development of appropriate IEPs for students are the cornerstone to providing FAPE. The reauthorized IDEA and its new implementing regulations include a number of key IEP-related changes that impact your job.

Special education school attorney David Hodgins helps you understand these and other related issues by focusing on the new requirements affecting the IEP team process and the development of appropriate IEPs for students.

You and your entire staff will gain answers to these questions, and more:

• Who is required to participate in IEP team meetings?
• Who may be excused and under what circumstances?
• What do the final regulations say about the development of the IEP?
• Can the IEP be amended without a formal meeting?
• What role do instructional methodologies or peer reviewed research play in the IEP process?
• What are the standards for ESY?