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Special Needs - Legal Advocacy

Understanding your legal rights when you homeschool your special needs child. Advocating for additional rights. Area-specific support may also be on your Regional page.

Advice for Homeschooling

Homeschooling Children with Special Needs
Lenore Hayes has been homeschooling her special needs son for 16 years. She is also an active homeschool leader in California. She has advice what to do if you are denied service and have an IEP in place.

Advocacy Sites

Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
An independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of attorneys, advocates and parents established to improve the quality and quantity of legal assistance for parents of children with disabilities.

IEP - Getting Out

Special Needs Children: Pulling Your Child Out of School
Just because a child has been determined to be a special needs child and an IEP has been prepared for her, does not mean that her family loses their constitutional right to choose the best educational alternative for their child. Parents can elect to place their child in a private school or facility. By Linda J. Conrad Jansen, Esq.

Your Child's IEP: Practical and Legal Guidance for Parents
If you are like many parents, when you receive a telephone call or letter inviting you to an IEP meeting, you respond with anxiety. Few parents look forward to attending IEP meetings.

IEP - While Homeschooling

The IEP Meeting
The school district can make recommendations, but the parent must approve every syllable of the documentation. If you're not happy with what's in the IEP, don't sign it until you are! By Melissa Wiley

Legal Resources

Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page
From the U.S. Department of Justice. Resources available through the government.

Understanding Special Education Laws and Rights
You've read your copy of rights and responsibilities in special education, talked to other parents, and even looked up more information on the Internet. You think that you have a pretty good understanding of what your child's entitled to, but when you talk to the special education administrator he tells you something different. By Jan Baumel, M.S.

Wrightslaw
Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. Wrightslaw has thousands of articles, cases, and free resources about dozens of topics.

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Association of Homeschool Attorneys
This association is a network of attorneys and legal experts that are concerned with litigation pending and threatened against homeschoolers. Moderated by Linda J. Conrad Jansen, an attorney and Legal/Legislative Chair of the HomeSchool Association of California.

Publications

Special Ed Advocate
Low cost Advocacy Package available through Wright's Law can help you determine your need for legal assistance.

Regional Information

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Homeschooling with Special Challenges
California. Is it possible to homeschool a child with special challenges? Might that child even flourish? From HSC.

Homeschooling the Special Needs Child
Illinois: As a parent of a child with special needs, you can receive special services from your school district at no further cost -- you have already paid for them with your taxes. This includes speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, audiologists' and social workers' services. These are all covered by Public Law 94-142.

Massachusetts Special Education Law
Eligible Massachusetts homeschoolers still have right to special services through the public schools if they desire them. But if a homeschool parent does not provide consent for an initial evaluation or a reevaluation, the school may not override that decision and is not required to consider the child eligible for services. AHEM.

Oregon Department of Education Guidelines for Home School Students With Disabilities
Oregon: State law provides that children with disabilities be evaluated for "satisfactory educational progress according to the recommendations of an individualized educational program (IEP) or privately developed plan (PDP).

Homeschooling Your Gifted or Special Needs Child
Virginia: My child has a current IEP. I know he is entitled to received speech services, but I how do I proceed? VA Homeschoolers.

Special Needs at Home in Washington
Washington: The good news is that Washington's home-based instruction law does not discriminate! It was written to include ALL kids in the state with no extra hoops to jump through for those with extraordinary challenges. WHO.

See also ~ Laws & Legalities

Special Ed Attorneys

Who also have keen understanding of state homeschool law.

Dorene J. Philpot Attorney At Law
An attorney who represents children with special needs and their parents in Indiana and Texas.

Sussan & Greenwald, Esqs., Special Education Attorneys
The Firm's practice is limited to the representation of disabled children and their parents in matters involving disputes with New Jersey school districts.

Still In School

Learning Problems at School: Whose FAULT Is It?
If you believe that you and/or your child are being blamed for your child's learning problems, this study suggests that you may be correct. And, if you believe that school factors (an inappropriate curriculum, faulty teaching, or ineffective school administration and management practices) are contributing to your child's problems, this is probably an accurate assessment. by Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., M.S.W. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Special Needs Children
If services are offered, the family is not required to accept them. Many families do just fine without government help, but if you need it, special needs services are available to homeschoolers. By Linda J. Conrad Jansen, Esq.

Additional Resources

Homeschooling the Child with ADD (or Other Special Needs): Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Differences
Homeschooling the Child with ADD (or Other Special Needs): Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Differences
by Lenore Colacion Hayes
More and more parents are realizing that homeschooling is a great option for children with ADD, ADHD, and other special needs. Homeschooling parents can tailor the learning experience to precisely fit their child's requirements, a critical necessity in the development of special-needs children.
 
Home Schooling Children With Special Needs
by Sharon Hensley
Sharon combines her child develpment and special education knowledge with the honesty and humility of a mother who homeschools three children, one who is autistic.

Simplified Learning Products
Joyce Herzog has created some wonderful products for those homeschooling "in spite of labels." Her works include The Scaredy Cat Reading System, History in His Hands Series, Choosing and Using Curriculum for Your Special Child and Learning in Spite of Labels.

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