A Private Law Firm – Allison Hertog, Esq., M.A.
General Education
What’s New in Schools? – It’s Called RtI
Sep 9th
Starting now it will be much harder (in fact, I think nearly impossible in Florida)to get your learning disabled (“LD”) child special education services. That said, special ed services historically haven’t helped LD kids very much. So, let’s hope these changes are all for the good. Children with behavior problems may not receive special ed services as easily as before either.
RtI – the details
Sep 7th
RtI is a 3-tiered process of increasingly intensive research- based instruction which is part of federal law (IDEA 2004). At the end of the process (Tier 3), students who are still struggling in reading, math and/or behavior will be eligible for special education services (an “IEP”). The theory of RtI, which is to catch struggling students early and provide high quality research-based instruction, is great.
Can A Child with Behavior Problems Survive in a Regular Classroom?
Dec 3rd
This issue is really getting to me lately. It seems I have several clients right now who have bright kids who are perfectly capable of doing well in a general education classroom but for their behavior problems. The schools I’m dealing with want to transfer the kids to special education classrooms which are exclusively for kids with “emotional More >
