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A Beginner’s Guide | Five Tips (Plus One) to Having a Successful IEP

The IEP can be stressful at times. These five (plus one) tips will help you relax, prepare and feel good about your parental role before, during and after the IEP.  
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A Beginner’s Guide | An Overview of Your Rights to an IEP

In earlier podcasts in this series, we touched on some of the specific rights parents have with regard to an IEP. This show condenses all that information into one discussion so that you have a complete understanding of your rights surrounding an IEP. 
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Understanding Important Special Education Court Rulings with Attorney Rebecca Diddams

The Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) calls for “Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)” that is tailored to an individual’s needs. Yet what does that really mean from a legal perspective?  What are its limits?
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A Beginner’s Guide | What Is an IEP Meeting Like?

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Linaja Murray about what happens during the actual IEP meeting and what it feels like to be there.
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A Beginner’s Guide | An Overview of the IEP

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Linaja Murray about the IEP.  We cover a general overview of the IEP itself.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #7: Going to a Hearing

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about going to hearing. When all other efforts to find an agreement have failed, heading to a hearing is one of he final things for a family to do.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #6: Understanding the Mediation Process

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about mediation. Something that is required by the California Office of Administrative Hearing prior to a full hearing.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #5: When a School District Sues a Family

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about the scary thought of a district suing the family. It does happen and sometimes they feel compelled to do it.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #4 Deciding to File a Lawsuit

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about the choice to file a lawsuit.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #3: Finding Solutions

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about deciding on solutions for your child’s specific situation and then advocating for those solutions with the school district.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #2: Understanding Your Case

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, talks with attorney Richard Isaacs about understanding your case through the file review process.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Special Education Legal Process #1 Are We a Good Match for Each Other?

Michael Boll, father to a son with autism and CSNLG team member, introduces our special series on the process of working with an attorney or advocate to help your son or daughter. This is a mutli-part series. We start with how the process works here at CSNLG and what steps happen to go from someone seeking help and information to hiring a law firm.
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