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Do you have a child with a disability receives special education?

Are you frustrated because they are difficult to obtain needed educational services for your child? Would you like a few tips education, to help ensure that the special education staff to follow IDEA? This article, 4 Parenting Tips that will help you in the enforcement of the Persons with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

IDEA law enforcement is the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which is part of the Department of Education. You are responsible to ensure that States, in accordance with special education law. States are responsible for ensuring that individual schools with IDEA.

The reality is that parents are the most important of the special enforcement and justice. Below are 4 tips for sure that your school is, the idea of the performance of your child.

1. Develop a knowledge of the persons with Disabilities Education Act. In this way you will know where to look if you have a specific section of the Act. For example: If you want to see what is necessary for a free appropriate public education (FAPE), you would at 300.101. Or least restrictive environment (LRE) to 300.115.

2. Developing a working knowledge of the rules on state special schools (This is how the state go to work with IDEA). Some states are actually better for children and parents, as federal law. By understanding this, you will be able to use them, to ensure that your school is to comply with the education law. You may obtain a copy of your state regulations from the state Board of Education.

3. Bring copies of the laws with you all the IEP meeting for your child, and they are on the table. You can search for certain sections in the course of the session, when you need it.

Through the training of special laws, which, you will ensure that your school is after them. They also want to ensure that the special education staff in your district to understand that you know the laws, and you will ensure that they follow them.

Even if you write letters to school personnel, always quote the IDEA or state regulations for special education, if you can. This will help to strengthen your case for what you want.

For example, IDEA states that my child has the right to a free appropriate public education, I believe that they do not receive at this time. In order for my child with a learning disability to receive FAPE, they must have the appropriate amount of reading remediation, with the simultaneous multi-sensory reading program such as Orton-Gillingham.

4. If your school is not in accordance with the procedures of the IDEA, consider filing a state complaint. The state complaint is filed with the State Board of Education, Special Education Department.

The request should include the violation, the number in the idea, which may be violated, what is your proof of the injury, and also the planned dissolution of the injury. Also you can check more than one violation in a complaint, but they figure to easier reading and tracking.

Through these four things, you will be able to understand when special education staff are not following special education law. It is sad that parents are the main enforcement arm of the idea, but it is reality! Good luck, and stay up, for the sake of your child!

JoAnn Collins is the mother of two adults with disabilities, and has helped families navigate the special Eduation system, as a lawyer, for over 15 years. She is moderator and author of the book "Disability Deception; Lies Disability Educators Tell and How to Beat the parents with their own weapons. "" The book has a lot of resources and information for parents struggling for an adequate education for their child. For a free e-newsletter entitled "The Special Education Spotlight" send an e-mail to: JoAnn@disabilitydeception.com For more information about the book, testimonials about the book, and a link to more articles, please visit : http:// www.disabilitydeception.com