Know Your Rights

I’m continually impressed at how motivated parents and teachers are to be advocates for kids with ASD or ADHD.  The love they have for their children or students and determination to see them succeed is amazing.

Part of being effective in that effort is knowing the legal aspects of a given situation.  There are laws at both the state and federal level that may come into play in a given situation, especially when dealing with public school administration.

For those of us who aren’t lawyers, it can be extremely confusing to wade through hundreds of pages of legal code to get educated.  Just recently, I found a website that make this much easier.

Wrightslaw.com exists to educate and empower special education adovcates.  From their homepage:

Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.

I hope you can take a minute to check them out.  Their information looks to be very substantive and effective!