Advocacy

Remember, as a parent, you are your child's best advocate. I hope these articles help. Never again will I set in an IEP meeting and let a teacher yell at me. (If there is ever a next time, I stand up and calmly ask the person in charge of the meeting to explain to the yeller about FAPE, IDEA, IEP and Due Process, and to please call me to reschedule. Then I'll turn and leave.) Never doubt that YOU are the expert on your child.
Wrightslaw-Pete Wright, an attorney who has dyslexia and ADD, has some wonderful information How to Argue and Win Everytime A Wrightslaw tactic and stratagy manual The Special Ed Advocate is a free online newsletter about special education legal and advocacy issues, cases, tactics and strategy, and Internet resources. Subscribers receive announcements and "alerts" about new cases, events, and special offers on Wrightslaw books. Access past issues of the newsletter, Special Ed Advocate on line.
Test interpretations for the child's advocate
	Wrightslaw-Understanding tests and measurements
A Guide to the Individualized Education Program(IEP)
	This guide explains the IEP process
Office of education
	"Each child who is evaluated for a suspected learning disability must be measured against his own expected performance, and not against some arbitrary general standard"
Assistive and adaptive technology in Special Education
	more information than you can handle

IDEA advocacy memo In short, says gifted kids must be given an IEP if they are not achieving their potential because of a disability. Even if these kids are statistically achieving above the norm. Regrettably, it also reiterates that schools are only ethically and morally responsible for educating gifted LD students to their abilities. Lillie/Felton OSEP policy

Surviving or Thriving? Gifted Middle School Boys with Learning Disabilities from ldonline.

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