Parents’ Complete Special-Education Guide: Tips, Techniques, and Materials for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and Life

This practical guide gives you all the important and pertinent information necessary to survive, and interpret, the myriad rules and regulations surrounding the educational, social, vocational, and environmental needs of your disabled child. Step-by-step, it explains each phase of the child’s educational development, from early childhood interventional and procedures for school-aged disabled youngsters, through how to work with the special education process, placement, individual education plans, and practical education law. Included are many specific suggestions and tools, such as forms, letters and checklists, to familiarize you with paperwork you may encounter or initiate. And five appendices are packed with useful information including a glossary of special education terms, forms used by the Committee on Special Education, organizations for special children, various types of special education tests, book publishers and more. In short, Parents’ Complete Special Education Guide gives you a comprehensive hands-on resource filled with practical information, tools, and advice to help you ensure that your child receives the best and most appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.