Stacey Hoaglund
ADVOCATE, LIFE COACH, CONSULTANT, SPEAKER, AUTHOR
Tag: IEP
Tag: IEP
Does Your Child Have an Emergency Preparedness Plan at School?
Ensuring that your child with (and without, for that matter) a disability is as prepared as they can be for a school emergency, is essential. When the horrific school shooting happened in Parkland, I was in the gallery of the Florida Capitol for Developmental Disabilities Day. I can recall so vividly a friend showing me
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What You Should Expect from Your IEP Meeting…. But May Not Often Get!
You’d think, especially considering the federal law that requires IEP meetings to run in a certain way, that when you go to your first, or last, IEP meeting, that the very basics would be in place. I’m not even referring to the guts of the Present Level or the meaningfulness of the goals….just the basics.
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Preparing for Your Child’s IEP Meeting
Before you meet with the school team for your child’s annual IEP meeting, it’s important to prepare. Anything can happen on the day of the meeting that can easily throw you off track. Since this is one of the most important documents for a child with autism when it comes to their education, time dedicated
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Procedural Safeguards – Don’t Just Sign Them, Know Them
The Procedural Safeguards related to special education is a document that outlines parent’s rights and comes in a book format in most states. This book contains information that the states are required to give to parents of children with disabilities. Each state is permitted to set up this document based upon their state regulations, but
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