Tell Your Story
Share your personal experience with your child’s special needs, focusing on their academic or developmental challenges. Detail how specific services have supported your child’s ability to access the education they need.
- Describe Your Child: Share your child’s unique challenges and how special education services have impacted their development and education.
- List Services: Mention the services your child currently receives, such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, or other related services.
- Impact of Services: Describe the specific progress your child has made as a result of these services.
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Why These Services Must Continue: Explain how crucial these services are for your child’s continued success. How would their removal or disruption impact your child and family?
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Costs: explain how this regulation would dramatically increase the cost of providing your child services mandated in their IESP that are not being proved by the district.
Example:
“As a parent, removing my right to file due process complaints will prevent me from holding school districts accountable for failing to provide essential services to my child. I will be forced into lengthy and costly legal battles that I cannot afford. The state complaint process offered as an alternative allows no reimbursement for an attorney or advocate to assist, leaving me to navigate this process alone. Nor does it offer opportunity for appeal. This is not a viable alternative.”
- Impartial Hearing Experience: If applicable, describe how the services your child receives were obtained through an impartial hearing for IESP services.
“Without the ability to file a due process complaint, I fear that my child’s right to receive necessary services will be severely limited, leaving them without the support that has been so vital for their development.”