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On Monday, August 28, in JP v. County School Board of Hanover County, Judge Robert Payne of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia issued another powerful pro-child decision on behalf of a child with autism. Download this Alert.
JP v. School Board of Hanover County VA is a case about autism, ABA therapy, and reimbursement for a private special education program. J.P. v. Hanover also demonstrates why schools should use objective tests to measure a child's progress (or regression), discrete trial data, and why schools must provide children with the services in their IEPs.
In J.P. v. School Board of Hanover County VA, the parents lost at the due process hearing, but prevailed in the U.S. District Court.
Note: The Order and Decision are 88 pages in pdf and a very large file (1.5 mb). Please do not try to open this document online. Instead, download the file to your hard drive, then open it.
We congratulate Virginia attorney Philip Carter Strother on his success.
We thank JP's parents who persevered, despite ongoing opposition from Hanover County Public Schools and the adverse decision from the Hearing Officer.
Autistic Child's Parents Prevail in Virginia - Judge Rules against Hanover, Orders School System to Pay Student's Private Tuition by Bill McElway of the Richmond Times Dispatch describes the judge's decision, resistance from the school system, (including a threat to file trespassing charges against the parents), and other noteworthy decisions by Judge Payne in RT v. School Board of Henrico County and RT v. School Board of Henrico County-2 earlier this summer.
If you are like many parents, teachers, and health care providers, you have questions about special education services for children with autism, autism spectrum disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), and Asperger Syndrome.
It is essential that you educate yourself about the child's disability, the impact of the disability on the child's ability to learn, research based educational methods that are proven to work, and how to measure and monitor the child's progress.
Our updated and revised Autism, PDD & Asperger Syndrome page has new articles, cases, resources, free publications, and information and support groups.
As we prepared to publish this Alert, we lost electrical power and are using a generator. Waves are breaking across our yard, now under 4+ feet of water (at low tide). The gardens are gone, the wells are full of salt water, and water is up to the windshields of the cars.
Conditions will continue to deteriorate for a few hours as Ernesto gets closer with gale force winds and higher water arrives with high tide later this afternoon.
This storm brings back memories of Hurricane Isabel in September 2003. Fortunately, our house is now built on pilings 10 feet above ground.

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