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According to the August 20th Amity Observer, families of special education students in Orange, Connecticut, are starting the school year with more than a few concerns about their children’s placements and the “dismissive attitude” of school administrators. One family also describes their experience with the use of restraints on their children—what I’d call a punitive, […]
An Oklahoma judge has ruled in favor of the Cashion School District against a family seeking appropriate educational services for their twin autistic daughters, 7-year-old Kaitlyn and Kayleigh Berry. From the June 21st Hays Daily News:
“Obviously, I’m very pleased with the outcome,” said Cashion Superintendent Todd Garrison.
Barry wrote in an e-mail Friday to The Oklahoman […]
We’ve had our problems with school districts and at (low) one point took Charlie out of school and homeschooled him for a month back in the fall of 2005. But things were always pretty local. In Louisiana, the St. Landry School Board is being investigated by the US Department of Education. According to WDSU news:
According […]
What gets “disclosed” and what does not was the issue at the center of the recently released document concerning Hannah Poling. I have “disclosure” and “transparency” of a slightly different sort on my mind right now. Charlie’s IEP meeting is today and, amid reading over documents and evaluations and forms, reading up on IDEA at […]
The highpoint of the week for us was Thursday night’s reading in conjunction with the Artistic Spectrum exhibit—–and Charlie also had a lot of things to say himself.
Did Your Child Reach Her or His Gross Motor Milestones?
Some parents note that their children had gross motor delays (Charlie did), while others said their child did not. […]
We’re still going back and forth with Charlie’s case manager about a time for his IEP and annual review—-the district seems to want to have students’ meeting by the end of April (although it is possible for any member of the Child Study Team (CST) to call an IEP when that member wishes to; […]
Just emailed our school district about Charlie’s upcoming IEP meeting—for the past two years, the district has been sending us a letter with the time, without first asking us when we can meet. My husband Jim and I are both college professors and teach classes throughout the week—Monday April 7th at 11.30, when the district […]
The first thing to keep in mind is that “classification” is not the same thing as a diagnosis.
So writes Andrew Tirrell, a lawyer with the nonprofit organization Advocates for Children of New York, in City Room on the New York Times website (March 17). Tirrell took questions from parents and readers about the rights of […]
“I don’t understand why it has to be so adversarial…..”Why can’t they listen to these parents and get a clue that maybe they have some merit?”
So Melissa Van Hook, who has two boys on the autism spectrum, says about the Gilbert School District in today’s Arizona Republic. Van Hook and a former special education teacher, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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