School doesn’t start or end when the bell rings. The student experience should include access to and participation in school-sponsored or related activities. This includes extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
Categories: Education & Schools
Critical thinking and problem-solving skills go beyond academics. Everyday life provides opportunities to apply these skills. During my son’s educational career, a lack of critical thinking and problem-solving skills was often noted in his Individualized Education Plan paperwork. While he may struggle with these skills academically, he solves problems all the time in his daily life.
Categories: Education & Schools, Transition to Adulthood
Has your child lost skills during the pandemic? Learn about compensatory services along with some suggestions on how to get them for your child.
Categories: Education & Schools
You are your child’s best advocate. Prepare for the IEP meeting and advocate for your child as an empowered parent.
Categories: Education & Schools
It’s time for your child’s ARD meeting. This is an emotional time for many families. Here are some Ideas for being prepared.
Categories: Education & Schools
Children – with and without a disability – go to school to prepare for life: continued education, employment and independent living. Do you have a vision for your child’s future? Does your child’s Individualized Education Program or IEP move your child closer or farther from that vision?
Categories: Education & Schools
The Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is the foundation for your child's education and future. You are a very important member of the committee that develops the plan.
Categories: Education & Schools
Through a lot of tears, grace and coffee, we had a good experience with remote learning. Perfect? Absolutely not! But the positives have outweighed the negatives.
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When our kids start school, they might need to be assessed for special education services. Sometimes this isn't needed until they've been in school a few years. The school district must identify and evaluate all children with disabilities. Once identified, they must be provided a Free Appropriate Public Education or FAPE.
Categories: Education & Schools
My child’s school district recently did an overhaul of their 18-plus program for Special Education and named the program Encore, which couldn’t be more fitting.
Categories: Education & Schools, Transition to Adulthood