If you’ve been in the special education world for even a short time, you’ve probably already realized that time can feel very ...

Expert advice from special education advocate Lisa Lightner on navigating the IEP process, understanding your parental rights, and achieving better outcomes for students.

Click Here to Share or Save. In recent months, a growing chorus of political figures has advocated for “returning education to the states,” suggesting that such a move would enhance local control and ...

Click Here to Share or Save. When Congress passes a “sweeping budget package,” you can bet it won’t be Wall Street executives or Fortune 500 companies footing the bill. Nope. It’s usually seniors, ...

Click Here to Share or Save. Here it is, all new and rewritten. This list is new and expanded so you can focus on the Behavior IEP Goals. The “fluff” is at the bottom now. Though, I do not consider it ...

Click Here to Share or Save. If your child is having a tough time at school, whether it’s grades, behavior, or just feeling lost, you may have heard someone say, “Ask about an IEP.” But what does that ...

Click Here to Share or Save. Reading comprehension is such an essential skill. Being able to decode is not enough. Once a student has the ability to decode, then they move on to reading comprehension ...

Click Here to Share or Save. As parents, our job is to teach and guide our little people into becoming adults. We are supposed to spot their weaknesses, or where they need to grow, and set them up to ...

The sections are now in alphabetical order. If it helps, you can scroll up, and unfold the table of contents, and that will then show the different sections. And, now ...

Click Here to Share or Save. Here you will find Executive Functioning IEP Goals, executive functioning IEP goals for ADHD, and some IEP Organizational Goals. This is one of the oldest articles on the ...

Click Here to Share or Save. Every student should learn how to speak up for themselves—especially IEP students. If more of our kids knew how to ask for a sensory break or say, “I need help,” so many ...

Click Here to Share or Save. For almost 10 years, readers have been asking me questions about an IEP and autism. It’s quite common in our message boards to have a mom pop in and say, “We were just ...