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Create an individualized education plan (IEP) and secure the education your child deserves! Children with learning disabilities have different needs than other kids in special education -- let Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities help you work with your child's school to make sure those needs are met. This one-of-a-kind book walks you through the Individual Education Program process, providing all the instructions, suggestions, resources, and forms you need to understand the special education system. Step by step, you'll learn how to: - understand your child's rights- prepare to make your case- untangle eligibility rules and evaluations- develop effective IEP goals- figure out the best programs, services and teaching strategies- get ready for IEP meetings- resolve disputes with the school district- do legal research on learning-disability issues This edition has been updated to reflect the latest laws, federal regulations, and court decisions that affect the IEP process, and includes fully up-to-date forms, sample letters, and resources to help you every step of the way. Plus, read an expanded section about appropriate education measures resulting from a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, and get new details on eligibility for special education services for your child.

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In this useful guide, parents may find the support they need for a long and often lonely process. The New York Times Provides parents and advocates an excellent resource to address the educational needs of all students with learning disabilities. I highly recommend this book! Terence K. Prechter Learning Disabilities Association of California Makes the IEP process accessible and usable for parents and professionals. I give it my highest recommendation. Joseph Feldman Community Alliance for Special Education Help[s] parents advocate for their child's educational needs. Providence Journal Siegel, a special education attorney and advocate, helps parents advocate for children with learning disabilities and understand the individualized education program (IEP) process. He explains special education law and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the definition and signs of a learning disability, getting started and developing an IEP blueprint for the child's education, the role of evaluations, eligibility, gathering information and evidence, developing goals, preparing for and attending the IEP meeting, resolving disputes through due process, filing a complaint, finding a lawyer and doing legal research, and joining a parent organization. The guide focuses on helping children aged 3-22 and does not address transition services to prepare children for a job or college, including independent living skills, or discipline issues like suspension and expulsion. Forms, sample letters, and resources are available online. Eithne O'Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView

In this useful guide, parents may find the support they need for a long and often lonely process. The New York Times Provides parents and advocates an excellent resource to address the educational needs of all students with learning disabilities. I highly recommend this book! Terence K. Prechter Learning Disabilities Association of California Makes the IEP process accessible and usable for parents and professionals. I give it my highest recommendation. Joseph Feldman Community Alliance for Special Education Help[s] parents advocate for their child's educational needs. Providence Journal

In this useful guide, parents may find the support they need for a long and often lonely process. The New York Times Provides parents and advocates an excellent resource to address the educational needs of all students with learning disabilities. I highly recommend this book! Terence K. Prechter Learning Disabilities Association of California Makes the IEP process accessible and usable for parents and professionals. I give it my highest recommendation. Joseph Feldman Community Alliance for Special Education Help[s] parents advocate for their child's educational needs. Providence Journal

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Lawrence Siegel has been a Special Education Attorney and Advocate since 1979, and has represented children with disabilities extensively in IEPs, due process, complaints, legal action and before legislative and policy bodies. Mr. Siegel has lectured and consulted with advocacy and parent groups throughout the country and is a member of the California Advisory Commission on Special Education. He has written special education legislation that has been adopted in several states and is the author of Least Restrictive Environment: The Paradox of Inclusion (LRP Publications, 1994). Mr. Siegel is the founder and Director of the National Deaf Education Project which works to ensure that the fundamental communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children are part of the educational system. In 2004-5 he was appointed to an endowed chair at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. for his work as an advocate special education.

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