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Real Talk About Colleges
Parents often think that colleges offer special education classes, with adapted curriculum, similar to high school offerings. Some assume that they can call professors and have them change requirements for their students. They might believe that their child will continue to enjoy certain rights guaranteed by IDEA and still have an IEP plan. They’ve heard…
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Confused? So was I.
On our autism journey, I stumbled through three stages of confusion. The first stage was when my son was really little. He couldn’t talk well, but he didn’t have other telltale markers for autism. His pediatrician, Early Intervention, preschool teachers and my mother insisted that he didn’t have autism. Instead, they told me that he…
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Get Your Evals!
Parents frequently tell me that they haven’t had a full evaluation of their child in many years. They don’t have recent documentation from medical, educational, or therapeutic professionals, which details diagnoses, strengths, and weaknesses. Some students graduate from the public school system without a neurologist-psych, education, behavioral, or a functional assessment from their school district. …
