Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie announced a $50 million donation for the creation of the Lurie Autism Institute in ...

“$2000?!?!” my husband exclaimed. “Do we really need this for him?” “Become an IEP/Special Education Advocate!” the flyer said. We were looking at a brochure that my son’s preschool had sent home to ...

Remember that feeling the first time you really understood how overwhelming hte IEP process was? Now multiply that by ten and ...

An abstract sentence is a sentence that expresses an idea, concept, or quality rather than something you can see, touch, or ...

Listen, I know, I know. If you've been on my site or socials a while, you know I'm not a fan of attaching ages to things.

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

To search the contents of this IEP Goal Bank for a specific item, press Ctrl + F. Control-F also works on the PDFs. What you will find here are many lists of IEP goals. For the most part, there’s no ...

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 fluff, I understand that not ...

It’s exhausting. This comes up so often in the group and it’s exhausting. Every few weeks, a teacher will say something, or an IEP will be mistakenly sent home with the wrong kid, and so the parent ...

Quite often, I hear from parents who are offered a 504 plan when they requested an IEP. I could get you really deep in the weeds with the explanation between a 504 and IEP. I don’t want to overwhelm ...

One of the greatest things to come out of the internet and social media is memes. And the IEP process gives us no shortage of ways to laugh at ourselves. I mean, we must have a sense of humor about ...

I will never forget this one day when Kevin was a preschooler. We had an IEP meeting, and one of his proposed math IEP goals was to be able to visualize and identify what 2 of something looks like or ...