Plain-English explanations of the school plans parents hear about but are rarely taught to understand.
Perhaps you noticed your child’s IEP progress report came back showing their goals are not being met. Maybe your child said they haven’t met with the guidance counselor for social skills in a long time. What if the long-term substitute in an ICT class isn’t a special-education teacher. Many parents assume that once a child…
There’s a word that quietly decides almost every special education disagreement, and most parents never get it explained to them. FAPE. It stands for Free Appropriate Public Education, and it’s the promise underneath the whole special education system. Once you understand this one word, you understand what your child is actually owed — and you…
IEPs and 504 plans get talked about as if they are the same thing with different names. They are not. They come from different federal laws, use different eligibility rules, and offer different kinds of support. The shortest useful answer is this: an IEP is generally for a student who, because of a qualifying disability,…
