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If RtI Isn’t Working for Your Child: Knowing Your Legal Rights

Aug 12th

Posted by AllisonHertog in Eligibility

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Response to Intervention (RtI) is a 3-tiered process of research-based instruction, which is part of federal law (IDEA 2004). Before RtI, in order to get considered for special education services (an “IEP”) the main thing your struggling learner needed was a psycho-educational evaluation (conducted by a private or public school psychologist). The evaluation needed to show More >

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Accommodations in Grades K-12. How to Navigate the Public System. . .

Dec 2nd

Posted by AllisonHertog in Accommodations

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Once the psycho-educational evaluation of your son or daughter is complete (See the Post below entitled “How Do I  Know if My Child Needs Accommodations” for more details on this), if a disability is found the next step will be to have a school meeting to determine if that disability significantly impacts his or her More >

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Even If You Could Get a 1:1 Aide, Here’s Why You May Not Want One.

Feb 24th

Posted by AllisonHertog in 1:1 Aide

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I hear it less now than I used to, but parents still routinely ask whether I can help their child get a 1:1 aide (meaning a paraprofessional who is ostensibly hired only to support a single child). My first response is that it’s always been very difficult, but due to budget cuts, it’s more difficult More >

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