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Your special education rights: what your school district isn't telling you
| Title | Your special education rights: what your school district isn't telling you |
| Names | Laviano, Jennifer |
| Swanson, Julie D. Author |
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| Book Number | DBC19065 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Authored by two special education experts and draws on decades of experience from the front lines of special education advocacy. Adult. Unrated. |
| General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
| Local Notes | "The authors, Jennifer Laviano and Julie Swanson, detail a strong, practical, and results oriented perspective that helps parents cut through the fog of special education to get the services their children deserve." -- Amazon.com. |
| Narrator | Novak, Diane. |
| Length | 5 hours, 20 minutes |
| Local Subject | Education - SO6 |
| Disability - HE2 | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Nonfiction - NF | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| LC Subject | Parents of children with disabilities - United States - Handbooks, manuals, etc |
| Special education - Law and legislation - United States |
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| Handbooks and manuals |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Call Number | 344.7307911 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Contents | Introduction : the one/two punch -- What your school district won't tell you -- Your special education director may not know who you are -- Who's chairing the meeting anyway? -- They care about money, a lot -- Teachers need to eat, too -- The tension between regular and special education -- Other parents are complaining about your kid -- The meeting before the meeting -- The teacher needs help but nobody wants to say so -- The least trained person and the most complex children -- Why they care about which label they give your child -- The perils of doing nothing: lessons from Sandy Hook -- You have rights -- The right to ask for an evaluation for services -- The right to a second opinion -- Counseling and training are not just for kids -- Discrimination, retaliation, intimidation, oh my! -- Procedural safeguards -- You shouldn't have to pay for that -- Can you observe your child in school? -- Scheduling IEP meetings -- Special education urban legends exposed -- Getting ready for primetime : transition to adulthood -- Demystify the paperwork -- We have a form for that! -- Bring your A game -- Know the players -- Toothless IEP language -- Little understood IEP essentials -- Finding your advocacy style -- Best kept secrets. |
| Released | 2017 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : Skyhorse Publishing 2017 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017] 9781510719392 |
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