The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the federal law that secures special education services for children with disabilities from the time they are born until they graduate from high school.
Focusing on the needs and strengths of individual children with learning disabilities and the services and supports needed to be successful in kindergarten is a crucial first step.
The National Center for Learning Disabilities presents examples of accommodations that allow students with learning disabilities to show what they know without giving them an unfair advantage. Accommodations are divided into the following categories: how information is presented to the student, how the student can respond, timing of tests and lessons, the learning environment, and test scheduling.
In this webinar from the Center on Technology and Disability, you’ll learn about assistive technology funding sources for children with and without IEPs.
I am very upset to learn that your son has gone through at least 12 years of public school and is still reading at the first-grade level. How did this happen? Was he not tested over the years?
