Once you’ve got an Individual Education Plan (IEP) in place for your child, it can be reviewed and updated whenever any member of the IEP team (including you) requests, but at a minimum, it will be updated annually.  The IEPs for my kiddos are due in November and January respectively; however, I received two calls from the school last week about… Read More
I shared just a bit of this in my stories on Instagram a couple weeks ago, but I knew there was more to it than could be shared in 15-second clips. It’s taken me this long to decompress a bit from dealing with the latest family emergency. Now that I have, I wanted to put it into a post that… Read More
Some of you may (or may not) know that I’m very active in our local Special School District Parent Advisory Council, serving our whole county this year as the President. At one of our meetings, I had the pleasure of listening to a presentation from an organization called Education PLUS about how to successfully advocate for your beliefs and children… Read More
I’ve known I needed to write this post for the last 4 weeks, heck for the last 4 MONTHS. I’ve known that if I share why we did what we did and how we did it, and if I could adequately express the mixed-up jumble of emotions that I felt as a parent that it would help others. Perhaps it… Read More
At some point recently, you’ve looked at your spouse and said, “I really think Susie needs help at school. Do we need to get her tested for one of those IEPs or something?” Hopefully, you’ve figured out how to formally request the school evaluate your child and they’ve reached out to schedule an “IEP Meeting*” which is why you’re here,… Read More