Questions & Answers about IDEA
Questions Often Asked by Parents about Special Education Services
- An excellent reading and educational source for the parents of your children with disabilities. This site answers most of the questions that parents will have about the special education process.
Parental Requests for Different Types of Meetings: Procedures in Spanish
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Cómo solicitar los expedientes de su niño.
(Requesting your child’s school records)
http://www.nichcy.org/Documents/Spanish%20pubs/archivos.pdf -
Cómo solicitar que se revise el IEP de su niño.
(Requesting a Meeting to Review the Individualized
Education Program)
http://www.nichcy.org/Documents/Spanish%20pubs/iep.pdf -
Cómo solicitar un cambio de ubicación.
(Requesting a Change of Placement)
http://www.nichcy.org/Documents/Spanish%20pubs/ubicacion.pdf -
Cómo solicitar una evaluación de su niño.
(Requesting an Initial Evaluation for Special Education Services)
http://www.nichcy.org/Documents/Spanish%20pubs/evaluacion.pdf -
Cómo solicitar una evaluación independiente al costo del público.
(Requesting an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE) at Public Expense)
http://www.nichcy.org/Documents/Spanish%20pubs/iee.pdf
Recommended Links
- Marc Sheehan’s Special Education /Exceptionality Page: hundreds of links in all areas of special education. One of the best resources on the web.
- Edvisors.com – The Online Education Resources Directory
Related Services Overview
- Rights and Related Services Are More Clearly Defined: Analyzes the implications of recent court decisions and of the federal government’s changing role for instruction and support services provided to handicapped and learning-disabled students.
- Related Services for school aged children with disabilities:This site defines related services, provides examples of related services, covers related services under Section 504, how related services are obtained for students, delivered to the students, how they are coordinated and funded.
Research Based Resources – Click Here
Research in Special Education – Click Here
Resource Rooms Overview
- Purpose of the Resource Room: This article states that purpose of the resource concept is to provide educational resources to the exceptional student, his teachers and his parents. These resources make possible the exceptional student’s continued enrollment in the regular classroom. Included in the resource concept is the resource setting which consists of a student attending resource for one-half to three hours a day.
- Adapting the curriculum for children with special needs: This site provides information on how a special education teacher has been managing her Resource Room to more effectively meet the needs of her diverse students.
Rett’s Syndrome – Click Here
Rights of Children with Disabilities – Tennessee Department of Education-Division of Special Education-good overview typical of most states(PDF file) – Click Here
RtI (Response to Intervention)- Click Here
- RTI is a newly-identified process described in the federal special education law (IDEA 2004) for identifying students with learning disabilities.The RTI process is a multi-tiered approach to providing services and interventions to struggling learners at increasing levels of intensity. RTI can be used for making decisions about general, compensatory, and special education, creating a well-integrated and seamless system of instruction and intervention guided by child outcome data.
