Presented by Terry J. Harmon, Esq.

Your district’s child find duty under the IDEA is an affirmative one — you can’t just wait for a parent to request an evaluation. School attorney Terry Harmon provides guidance on meeting the obligation to seek out students who are potentially IDEA-eligible.

You learn what the IDEA statute and regulations say about child find and eligibility, plus gain strategies to:

• Recognize signs of a potential disability that may trigger the district's IDEA child find duty
• Identify the IDEA’s disability categories and their differing eligibility standards
• Apply lessons from case law to avoid common child find mistakes that may lead to IDEA due process or federal actions
• Develop appropriate child find protocols to share with general and special education teachers and administrators
• And more