NEW from SPAN!!!
Parents' Resource Guide to Key
Changes in Special Education under IDEA 2004, the IDEA 2004 Regulations
and the Revised State Code
 [available online]

Guía de Recursos Para Padres sobre los Cambios Esenciales
en Educación Especial bajo IDEA 2004, las Regulaciones
de IDEA 2004 y el Código Estatal Revisado
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Listen to SPAN presentations on Key Changes in Special Education:

Download the PowerPoint presentation to follow along with the audio presentation.

TOPIC 

PRESENTER

Pre-Referral Interventions.  Evaluations, Independent Evaluations, and Reevaluations.  Eligibility.  Consent and Revocation of Consent.
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Martha Brecher, Esq.
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network, Legal Director

The Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)
Notice, Meetings, Excusal, Content

Carolyn Hayer,
SPAN Director of Parent and Professional Development

Least Restrictive Environment
Inclusion
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Karen Melzer, Boggs Center
Director of EI and Inclusive Education

Discipline
Manifestation Determination
Functional Behavior Assessment
Positive Behavior Supports
 

Peg Kinsell, SPAN
Director of Public Policy; Southern Training Coordinator

Transition to Adult Life
Graduation
Materials will be added soon!

Alice Hunnicutt
SPAN Director of Transition to Adult Life Projects 

Dispute Resolution
Mediation & Due Process
Materials will be added soon!

Diana Autin, Esq.
SPAN Executive Co-Director

Other Resources:

New Jersey’s Revised State Special Education Code

NEW FEDERAL REGULATIONS:  IDEA 2004 Regulations

IDEA Regulations - HTML format

IDEA Regulations - PDF format

Fact sheet released from the US DOE along with the IDEA regulations.

IDEA Fact Sheet  (.pdf file)

Remember, New Jersey’s special education code maintains some protections lost in the latest reauthorization of IDEA.

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