How to Write a Parent Concerns Letter Before an IEP Meeting
Your concerns belong in writing before the meeting — not raised for the first time in a room full of school staff while everyone waits.…
Your concerns belong in writing before the meeting — not raised for the first time in a room full of school staff while everyone waits.…
Your child’s IEP arrives in your inbox or your backpack — 18 pages of education-speak, acronyms, and legal language. Where do you even start? Here…
The team is wrapping up. The paperwork is on the table. And you know, deep in your gut, that something is wrong — the services…
There is a reason IEP meetings feel unbalanced: the school team has sat in those chairs dozens of times. You sit there once a year,…
The school calls to schedule your child’s annual IEP meeting. You write the date in your calendar and then… what? For too many parents, the…
The first IEP meeting is often experienced the same way by parents: a room full of professionals with clipboards, a document they’re apparently already familiar…
The child whose IEP is being discussed is, in most cases, not in the room. They’re in class while a group of adults makes decisions…
When a child is struggling in school and a disability is on the table, parents quickly encounter two terms: IEP and 504 Plan. Both offer…
The IEP your child had at age eight looks nothing like the IEP they’ll need at age sixteen. As students with disabilities approach adulthood, the…
Special education has its own language. If you’ve sat through an IEP meeting and felt like everyone else was speaking in acronyms, you’re not alone.…