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Five Key Ideas

Published on Jun 13, 2022

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Five Key Ideas

  • Understanding IEP's
  • First a child must be evaluated.
  • The school decides if the child is eligible for services
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Information

  • an IEP gives parents a understanding of the child's strengths and challenges.
  • Then time to have a meeting
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IEP Meeting

  • All members agree on a time and place for the meeting
  • The parent is the child's number one advocate
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Many Choices

  • If IEP meeting did not go well then there are options
  • Negotiation, Mediation,Due Process Hearing, Lawsuit, State Complaint, Office for Civil Rights Complaint
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Negotiation

  • Parent has an issue about something that they do not agree on they can ask to have a negotiation meeting to try and resolve the issue.
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Mediation

  • It the negotiation meeting does not work the nest step is mediation.
  • This is a free and confidential service
  • Bring in a neutral party (mediator)
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Due Process Hearing

  • Starts with a complaint
  • Becomes a formal way to resolve a dispute under IDEA.
  • The complaint must state a violation of IDEA.
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Lawsuit

  • If it needs to take the next step option to file a lawsuit
  • This requires a lawyer
  • Due process must be tried before the lawsuit is started
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State Complaint

  • Next option is a state complaint
  • Must be filed within one year of violation
  • Multiple students can be involved, not just one child, or one family
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Office for Civil Rights

  • the OCR complaint must be filed within 180 days of school violation
  • Knowing the options for dispute resolution is important to advocate for the child.
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Individualized Ed. Program (IEP) Facilitation

  • This is another option for creating an IEP
  • Bringing in a facilitator to be a third party advocate to keep meeting flowing and on task and handle issues along the way
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  • Another free service that can be used to help the parent and the team to reach an agreement with the help of a facilitator
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Special Education Consult Line

  • 1-800-879-2301
  • Office of Dispute Resolution
  • 1-800-879-2301
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Dispute Resolution

  • This has given me information to use in my classroom with parents of my students with the IEP process. Hopefully these things are not an issue in my meetings.
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  • Having this information will help me to be prepared in any situation that might arise with teaching Special Education.

Sara Steele