My Child Learns Differently: The Parent's Guide to Special Education

Knowledge is power and this book empowers parents to advocate for the individualized education their student qualifies for and deserves. Breaking through the fog (procedures), barriers (acronyms), and roadblocks (delay tactics) created by some educators, this book clearly explains your rights and the processes and procedures to obtain interventions and services for your student's success. In twenty concise and comprehensive chapters, the parent is guided through the special education process. It begins with the parent's first hunch their child learns differently, reading a psycho-educational report, understanding an IEP document, working with teachers, requesting additional resources, to high school completion and transition to university or a job. Additional topics covered are: parental rights, appeal process, autism, dyslexia, emotional disturbance, learning disabilities, processing deficits, executive functioning, ADHD, interventions including accommodations and modifications to instruction, behavior support plans, functional behavioral analysis, independent educational evaluation at no cost, how to write a measurable educational goal, connecting goals to services, understanding least restrictive environment, and why the squeaky wheel gets the grease in special education.