After analyzing thousands of IEPs, we’ve settled on the top five IEP mistakes. This installment focuses on Mistake #2, failing to question authority. Failing to fully read, understand and–most importantly–question IEPs and Assessments/Evaluations before agreeing to them can negatively impact your child’s education for the entire school year-and beyond. These documents can be long and confusing and often no one seems to have time to clearly explain them. At the same time, parents are pressured to sign so that placement and services can start. Parents

Error #3 – la reunión de IEP interminable Después de representar a miles de padres y sus hijos/as con necesidades especiales durante los años, nos hemos limitado los top 5 errores del IEP. Se trata de no prepararse para el IEP de reunión y no centrarse en las cosas más importantes que impactan al niño. El tercer error que encontramos a menudo es la “reunión de IEP interminable”. Por la ley, los distritos escolares deben asegurarse de que todos los participantes pertinentes asistan a la

After representing thousands of parents and their special needs children over the years, we’ve narrowed down the top five IEP mistakes. These include failing to prepare for the IEP meeting and failing to focus on the most important things that will impact the child. The third mistake that we often encounter is the “never-ending IEP meeting”. By law, school officials must ensure all relevant participants attend the IEP meeting. Typically, this includes parents, your child’s special education or resource teacher, general education teacher, any person

Assembly Bill 394 is a law passed in Nevada in 2015. If you have children who are in the Clark County School District, or soon will be, then you must understand and keep up with how this new law is being put in place. CCSD is now the fifth largest school district in the United States, serving more than 315,000 children over 8000 square miles. Nevada lawmakers, noting how large CCSD has become, have decided to break up CCSD into “local school precincts”. Given the

Los defensores y abogados de ADAMS ESQ revisan IEPs para determinar si ofrecen una gratis, educación pública e apropiada (FAPE) y puede satisfacer las necesidades únicas de su hijo. A menudo, los padres creen que tienen año de sólo un tiro para IEP de su hijo y ellos insisten en páginas y páginas de metas y objetivos en una amplia variedad de áreas. Algunos IEPs incluyen una larga lista de adaptaciones repetitivos que suenan impresionantes, pero no están diseñados para ayudar al niño. Esto es

ADAMS ESQ attorneys and advocates review IEPs to determine if they offer a free, appropriate, public education (FAPE) and can meet your child’s unique needs. Often, parents believe that they have only one shot each year to beef up their child’s IEP and they insist upon pages and pages of goals and objectives in a wide variety of areas. Some IEPs include a long list of boilerplate accommodations that sound impressive but are not designed to help the child. This is a mistake. Complicated goals

Después de analizar miles de IEPs durante los últimos 15 años, hemos resuelto en los cinco principales errores que hemos descubierto en nuestras críticas del IEP. En esta serie compuesta de 5 partes (empezando con el número cinco y nuestra forma de trabajo hacia arriba) exploramos errores comunes y cómo evitarlos. Si usted es un cliente anterior de ADAMS ESQ o ha referido niños con necesidades especiales a nosotros, usted probablemente ya sabe cómo navegar por una reunión de IEP y el equipo. Pero hay

After analyzing thousands of IEPs over the past 15 years, we’ve settled on the top five IEP mistakes.  If you’re a past client of ADAM ESQ or have referred special needs children to us, you probably already know how to navigate an IEP.  But there are many other families, teachers and special education service providers who may be able to benefit from this information.  So please feel free to forward, share, post, text, tweet or otherwise give a “shout out” to your friends warning them

Dyslexia: Frequently Asked Quesions 1.  What is dyslexia?  Dyslexia is a common learning disorder affecting as many as 80 percent of California students with learning disabilities in special education.  According to the International Dyslexia Association, dyslexia is a language-based specific learning disability (a neurodevelopmental disorder that hinders the ability to learn or use certain academic skills.) and generally refers to a cluster of symptoms resulting in difficulty with specific language skills, particularly reading. Students with dyslexia usually experience difficulties with other language skills such as