Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
An Individualized Education Program, or IEP, determines what your child's program, services, and accommodations will be in special education. Learn more about this important document and how to make it work for your child with these helpful articles.
IEP FAQ
Have a question about Individualized Education Plans? Find the anwers here.
Have a question about Individualized Education Plans? Find the anwers here.
Meet Your IEP Team
That gang of serious-looking people around the IEP planning table can be intimidating to a parent. Here's your quick guide to who they all are, and how you can be a team player, too.
That gang of serious-looking people around the IEP planning table can be intimidating to a parent. Here's your quick guide to who they all are, and how you can be a team player, too.
Parental Input on the IEP
Your child's Individualized Education Program (IEP) has a spot for you to add any information you would like to share or comments you would like to make. Don't miss the opportunity to have your say.
Your child's Individualized Education Program (IEP) has a spot for you to add any information you would like to share or comments you would like to make. Don't miss the opportunity to have your say.
How to Get an IEP for Your Child
Whether you've requested an Individualized Educational Plan for your child or have been asked to consider one by school or state personnel, these are the steps you'll go through, from initial referral through provision of services and triennial reevaluation.
Whether you've requested an Individualized Educational Plan for your child or have been asked to consider one by school or state personnel, these are the steps you'll go through, from initial referral through provision of services and triennial reevaluation.
Before You Go to an IEP Meeting
The night and morning before an IEP meeting can be a time of tense anticipation for parents. Use that nervous energy to prepare yourself for the meeting and make sure you put your best case forward.
The night and morning before an IEP meeting can be a time of tense anticipation for parents. Use that nervous energy to prepare yourself for the meeting and make sure you put your best case forward.
Before You Sign an IEP
Don't approve your child's Individualized Education Plan before you check these items.
Don't approve your child's Individualized Education Plan before you check these items.
How to Report an IEP Violation
Your child is not getting services he is legally entitled to. What are you going to do about it? Here are four steps that, in most cases, will get you to a resolution of the problem.
Your child is not getting services he is legally entitled to. What are you going to do about it? Here are four steps that, in most cases, will get you to a resolution of the problem.
Alphabet Soup Quiz: Special-Education Edition
Do you know your IEP from your FAPE? Test your knowledge of special-education acronyms.
Do you know your IEP from your FAPE? Test your knowledge of special-education acronyms.
IEP Meeting Alert Levels
What alert level do you hit before going to your child's IEP meeting? Measure your risk of outrage and deception with this handy chart.
What alert level do you hit before going to your child's IEP meeting? Measure your risk of outrage and deception with this handy chart.
Special-Needs Business Profile: Organized4Kids.com
Profile of an online business, started by a parent of a child with special needs, that offers organizers for IEP materials.
Profile of an online business, started by a parent of a child with special needs, that offers organizers for IEP materials.
Book Review: How Well Does Your IEP Measure Up?
Review of a book on getting an appropriate IEP for children on the autism spectrum.
Review of a book on getting an appropriate IEP for children on the autism spectrum.
Play Hearts, Not Poker
From the Harbor House Law Press site, an excellent article on IEP meeting strategies from an "attorney, arbitrator, mediator and loving mother of an autistic daughter."
From the Harbor House Law Press site, an excellent article on IEP meeting strategies from an "attorney, arbitrator, mediator and loving mother of an autistic daughter."