Making Special Education Actually Work

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.

The majority of those doing the searching land right here on our blog and most of their search terms are for things that we’ve already written about.  But, by going through and seeing the search terms that led people to our site but for which we didn’t quite have the right information, it helps us understand the issues people are facing and what information we can additionally provide that will make our blog, and our overall site, more useful to our users.

So, beginning this month, which is the first month of Fiscal Year 2010 for us, we are adding a new component to our blog:  Topics Picked from Readers’ Search Terms.  I created a new blog category for this content, as well, so you can click on the “Archives” link above on the menu bar and find it as a sub-category under “Suggested New Content” to jump to just those articles I’ll be writing that are inspired by our user’s search terms.

I just went through the 586 different search phrases that were used to put people on our site in June 2010 and culled out the ones for which we don’t already have specific content about which I thought I could write something helpful.  I’m listing them here for now with the understanding that I’ll be writing separate articles for some of the more involved issues and grouping several together in one article when there isn’t a whole lot to say about each one.

So, here’s the June 2010 list of search terms that will inspire additional blog content for Making Special Education Actually Work:

• autism and length of school due to transportation
• mental health goals for iep
• grandparents who shun grandchildren adhd
• what does rr mean in iep
• special education parent surrogate blogs
• can i dispute things in the iep after i signed it?
• what are the ways teachers inadvertently get into legal trouble regarding issues of special education?
• how much money can someone sue for a school district adding on to a students iep without the notice of a parent
• what happens when a ca school fails to meet iep goals
• reasons for inaccurate assessment results in special education
• how to convert data to iep goals
• format of writing an iep
• who can legally write ieps in wisconsin?
• can a school deny a iee provider
• do parents have to consent to additional assessments iep
• iep without parental consent
• what is considered to be a significant subtest scatter on the wisc-iv
• how many times can a parent not show up at an iep
• minority parents satisfaction with the iep process
• how to handle contentious iep meetings
• iee at public expense district says too expensive
• school refuse iee and don’t file due process
• negative side to an iep
• scaffolding iep goals
• disadvantages of hiring a school advocate
• how not to get sued special education
• cons for including parents in the educational process
• iep goals sleep disorder
• unseemly iep team member
• prior written notice special education
• can iep goals be removed if not mastered
• filing a complaint against a school principal california
• idea what to do if district doesn’t comply with due process settlement agreement
• use of IQ in special education placements
• you have just received a phone call from a parent who insists that you fire one of your special education teachers. she claims that she has had to call several iep meetings because she feels that her child is not receiving the services outlined in the iep. she also states that she has contacted ipul for some legal advice. if you don’t fire the teacher immediately she will call the state resolutions person. what do you do? what steps do you take? how do you avoid litigation? take at least 1-2 pages to explain your answer (quite evidently, someone was doing their homework for a school administrator course of some kind – I don’t intend to take 1-2 pages to explain my answer when I respond to this one)

This is a lot of ground to cover, but I’m going to do my best.  I’ll come back and update this article with links to the new articles that these search terms generate.  If you have any other topics you’d like to suggest, please post a comment with your suggested topic and I’ll see what I can do!

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