Title: When the school says no, how to get the yes! : securing special education services for your child /
Authors: Lauer, Vaughn.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Children with disabilities Education.; Individualized education programs.; Children with disabilities Services for.
Abstract: Lauer takes a structured, cooperative approach to Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), the easily applicable six question process that enables parents to determine the needs of their child. He demonstrates how to achieve effective collaboration with school personnel, ensuring the child receives the appropriate and necessary educational program and services.
Contents: Introduction: Understanding the approach -- How to get assistive technology for the nonverbal child with autism -- The IEPs went right, but their expectations were too low -- Physical impairments and learning disabilities: a child is better served at home -- Three children with various disabilities and mother requests an advocate's assistance -- A child with autism: his needs changed, but the program did not -- Asperger's syndrome: negotiating results in gains and losses -- Parents' solutions for a child with high-functioning autism and high anxiety -- A parent faces a district with the wrong concept of the least restrictive environment for a child with autism -- Parents versus district/district versus parents: a broken relationship -- When a school should say "no" to an attorney -- The physical education conundrum and solution for a child with physical impairments -- A father whose son has a hearing impairment brings multiple legal actions against the district -- Final thought-- please read -- Afterword: Striking observations of interest.