Failure, Inaccuracies & Wisconsin (What?)
In our series of blog articles devoted to addressing issues raised by our site visitors’ search terms (see Topics Picked from Readers’ Search Terms), this blog article tackles some of those issues. Again, these were the burning questions that sent readers straight to their search engines and ultimately to our blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Feds Seek to Outlaw Injurious & Deadly School Discipline Practices
On January 16, 2010, I posted an article about a federal report on the use of improper seclusions and restraints of children in our nation’s schools. These practices have been used mostly on children with disabilities, resulting in injury, trauma, and death. Read the rest of this entry »
Making Smarter Use of Facebook
There’s a lot of momentum behind Facebook with over 400 million users, over 100 million of whom access their accounts at least monthly. For-profit and non-profit entities alike are being encouraged to use Facebook to further their organization’s purposes and it seems like there are a million “gurus” crawling out of the woodwork to tell organizations how to use Facebook to get more business, increase brand awareness, drive traffic to their websites … yada, yada, yada. Read the rest of this entry »
Shunning, RR, and Disputes – Oh, My!
As I posted earlier today, I’ve gone through the search terms used by visitors to our site in June 2010 and selected the ones for which we don’t have specific content. These were the burning questions that people were seeking answers to that led them to our blog but didn’t necessarily lead them to content that gave them what they were looking for. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics Picked from Readers’ Search Terms
One of the neat things about carrying out so much of our mission through our website is the data that gets generated on the backend. While we don’t know who is searching for what, we know what people are searching for when they end up on our site. We get ongoing updates organized on a month-by-month basis of a variety of information including how many visitors we’ve had to our site, what pages were viewed and how many times, and the search terms that people use in search engines that lead them to our site. Read the rest of this entry »
Overly Accommodating Parents
Pursuing remedy to special education violations is an emotionally draining task for any parent. It’s easy for some parents to go on the warpath, leaving nothing but scorched earth after everything is said and done, and that’s a terrible way to try and solve a problem of any kind. It’s an incredibly harmful approach to use in a situation involving children, handicapped or not. Read the rest of this entry »
Does the Education Rendered Comport with the IEP?
In special education, the implementing regulations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”) establish the basic framework of how the process is supposed to work, but it’s the case law that comes from due process cases and their appeals that refine the use of some terms in many cases. Often, the case law summarizes bits and pieces of the regulations taken from different legal citations to arrive at the formal definition of a particular term, such as the definition of a Free and Appropriate Public Education (“FAPE”). Read the rest of this entry »
Tenant Rights Forum for People with Disabilities
The Housing Rights Center, Disability Rights California, and the California Apartment Association are proud to present the Disability Rights Forum: Accommodating Tenants with Disabilities. The forum of dialogue and education will feature in-depth presentations and workshops designed to raise awareness and address issues surrounding housing rights for people with disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
