Memorandum: For Parents
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Special Education
Eligibility/RTI
- An RTI Process Cannot Be Used to Delay an Evaluation for Eligibility
- CSE Request Form Letter
- Eligibility Denials in Special Education – The Fallout from Full Inclusion and RTI
- Evaluations and IEPs in the IDEA 2004
- IEP-CSE Checklists (Federal version)
- Section 504 in the Public Schools: How Does It Differ from the IDEA?
IEP/CSE Information
Special Education – General
- P.A. 101-0515 – New Law Expands Protections for Parents at IEP Meetings
- A Discussion of Special Education in Illinois
- Beginning of School Year Checklist
- Timeframe for Implementing an IEP
- Consolidated Guide for School Law Timelines
- Educational Mandates for Children with Disabilities (Summary)
- Guide to Educational Services for Ill and Disabled Children
- IDEA and the No Child Left Behind Act
- Illinois Special Education Regulations and Definitions
- Inclusion: Incompatibility with Mandates of IDEA
- Overview Of The Federal Mandate Of Special Education
- Requests to Observe Public School Programs: Policy Suggestions and Forms
- Socially Maladjusted Children and Special Education Services
- Special Education Eligibility Definitions (Illinois)
Related Services
Autism, PDD, and Aspergers Syndrome
Cochlear Implants
Discipline
Due Process/Litigation
Special Education Caselaw
- Compensatory Education: An Update Based on Recent Decisional Case Law
- Extended School Year: Court Opinions
- FBA/BIP Caselaw Update
- IDEA Decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Liability Risks for Failure to Respond to Knowledge of a Suicidal Child
- Light v Parkway: Inclusion Case – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Oberti and Holland: A Rational View
- The Rowley Case: What Does it Mean?
Discipline and Expulsion
General/Miscellaneous
- Ashley’s Law: Medical Cannabis in Schools
- Babysitting and Children Home Alone
- Brittany’s Law
- Dental Examination Requirements in Illinois
- Educational Malpratice in Illinois
- FMLA Provisions
- Health Examinations & Immunizations: Certificate of Religious Exemption
- Home School: Federal Mandate?
- Illinois Eavesdropping Statute
- Limited English Proficiency
- Transition of Children from 0 – 3 Programs to Early Childhood Programs