Special Education Academy™

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What to Do If a School Isn't Following Your Child’s Support Plan

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Do Students Without an EC Teacher Qualify for Compensatory Services?

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What Schools Can Do When Parents Don’t Attend the IEP

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Getting a School Nurse When Your Child Has Severe Allergies

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Can Charter Schools Limit Services Like Transportation or School Days?

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Can Behavior Alone Trigger a Special Ed Placement Change?

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What to Expect After a Unilateral Placement Decision

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When Inclusion Is Used to Justify Role Confusion

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Is There a Legal Limit on ESEA Providing Services?

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Can an SLP Diagnose Autism or Use the ADOS?

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What Happens After a Manifestation Meeting and More ISS?

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Do Special Needs Buses in Washington Require Two Adults?

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Can Parents Choose a Private Speech Therapist for IEP Services?

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Can a Reading Specialist Provide IEP Services If Parents Ask?

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Can a General Ed Teacher Be Told Not to Speak in an ARD?

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Can Medical Needs Like GI Issues Be Reflected in an IEP?

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What Happens After You File a State Complaint?

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What to Consider When Speech Progress Stalls

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Does ADHD Automatically Qualify for an OHI IEP?

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What Exactly Is a 504 Plan?

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Can I Request Bathroom Reminders or a Para for My Child?

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Can Reading Goals Replace an IEP Evaluation?

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Getting it Right for All

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From Lion King Backpacks to Federal Reform: Karen’s Founding Story on Founders Future

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How Parents Can Request School Incident Reports

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Can One Person Be Both LEA and Gen Ed Teacher at an IEP Meeting?

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Do SLPs Need Extra Certification for AAC?

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Can Students Be Left with Non-Credentialed Staff?

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State vs. Federal Complaints in Special Education

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Essential Advice for New Special Education Teachers!

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Schools Not Collecting Data? Here’s How to Hold Them Accountable!

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Can an IEP Be Revoked If It’s Not Working?

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Profanity for Self-Regulation? How Do Schools Handle It?

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Should Schools Allow BCBAs & RBTs in Classrooms?

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Is It a Violation When RSP Aides Handle All SAI?

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Is a Four-Day Co-Teach Week with an ARD Day Feasible?

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When Is the Right Time to Consider Guardianship?

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Should You Be Told When IEP Team Members Leave?

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What If a Parent Won’t Consent to a Reevaluation?

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Can Students with IEPs in Colorado Earn a Real Diploma?

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Why Isn’t My Struggling Reader Being Tested for SLD?

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What Happens When Parents Aren’t Told About Restraints?

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Can Test Anxiety Be a Reason for a 504 Plan?

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Should Paras Be Doing Medical Procedures in Schools?

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What Happens When a School Changes Your Child’s Disability Label?

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Who’s Responsible for Telling You About Program Changes?

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Is ADHD a Disability or Just a Label in Schools?

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How Could a Break Off of the Department of Education Impact Special Ed?

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Does an FBA or BIP Mean a Student Gets an IEP?

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Retesting Denied Since 2019—What’s Missing in the Process?

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Dyslexia Diagnosis: What Kind of Goals Should Come Next?

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Is One Goal Enough on an ADHD Kindergartner’s IEP?

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Is Restraint Being Used the Right Way in Schools?

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What If Teachers Ignore My Child’s Accommodations?

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Can ECSE Classrooms Be Half-Day by District Choice?

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Can a Non-Special Ed Teacher Be the IEP Liaison?

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How Do IEPs Work When You're Homeschooling?

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Can Speech Services Start Without an Evaluation?

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How to Get a Separate Room for Exams with a 504 Plan

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Can a 504 Team Decide Without the Parent Present?

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Do You Need a Diagnosis Before Requesting an IEP?

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Student from Residential Facility Causing Harm—What Now?

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Manifestation Meeting Followed by Expulsion? Here's What to Expect

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Can a Counselor Approve a 504 Plan Alone Before It's Due?

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What If No One Applies for Your Child’s 1:1 Support?

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Should General Ed Teachers Seek Special Ed Training?

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What Counts as Small Group Instruction?

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Special Ed Teachers—You Deserve the Recognition

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Can a Student Have Both an IEP and a 504?

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School Forged My Signature on the IEP—Now What?

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Can You Hold Back a Special Ed Student If You Think It’s Best?

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an Schools Delay Kinder IQ Testing After Low Scores?

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Are IEPs Being Followed if the SPED Teacher Isn't Present?

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Can You Request 1:1 Para and Student Need Numbers?

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Ask the Advocate: IEP Drama, Pre-K Confusion, and the Truth About 504 Plans

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Ask the Advocate

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Can a Special Ed Student Be Denied Access to Related Arts?

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When Should Students Be Considered for Alternative State Testing?

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Can an OT Just "Oversee" Motor Skills Support?

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Can the IEP Team End Services Without Parent Consent?

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Best Social-Emotional Goal for a 1st Grader?

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Can a Student in Virtual School Skip Social Interaction?

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Ask the Advocate with Karen Mayer Cunningham, Special Education Boss®

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What Should Admins Know Before IEP Meetings?

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Understanding Retention-Related Disabilities in Students

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Isolated Lunch for a Student—Is That Okay?

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IEP Dropped After Autism Diagnosis—Now What?

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Is Adaptive PE the Support Your Student Needs?

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When Is It Time to Move from a 504 to an IEP?

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Your child deserves powerful advocacy

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Should You Share the IEP with a VR Counselor?

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What If the School Refuses a 1:1 for Severe Asthma?

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Why ELL Students Struggle to Get Special Ed Services

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Do You Need Teaching Experience to Be an Advocate?

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Overlooked Compensatory Services That Cost Districts Time and Money

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When Advocacy Becomes Too Much—What Should You Do?

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Still Waiting on Comp Ed a Year Later? Here's the Issue

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What Decides If a Student Gets an Alternate Curriculum?

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Can an IEP Help You Apply for SSI?

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Is an OT Consult Enough When You Asked for an Evaluation?