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April Advocacy Monthly
IEP and 504 Plans, What’s the Difference? The laws regarding education of students with special needs is entrenched in terminology that is often confusing and sometimes bizarre, as is often the case between the terms IEP and 504 plan. In many ways, an IEP and a 504 plan have the same objectives: to provide protection…
Read MoreAdvocacy Monthly – IDEA and Child Find by Ed Spinks
IDEA & Child Find Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 (IDEA) is a Federal Law that provides for the right to education and protections for children with disabilities and their families. The The primary purposes of IDEA are: To provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to children with disabilities. To give parents a voice…
Read MoreAdvocacy Monthly – IEP Goals
The law requires your child’s IEP to include: …a statement of measurable annual goals, including academic and functional goals, designed to meet the child’s needs that result from the child’s disability to enable the child to be involved in and make progress in the general education curriculum; and . . . meet each of the…
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