Spotlight on Special Education

Litigation is a powerful teaching tool. In addition to providing information about how hearing officers and the courts interpret Section 504 and IDEA, special education caselaw can also reveal trends in issues being litigated, areas where schools are particularly liability-prone, and practices that schools could have implemented that would likely have mitigated or eliminated the liability. This session is designed to identify litigation trends, provide information about common legal issues, and help special educators and special education administrators learn from these examples.  This full-day special education law training is designed to both discuss the lessons to be learned from caselaw and provide practical, common-sense tips and tools for avoiding liability.  This session will be broken down into 5 categories of special education liability: 

• Child Find, 

• Evaluations and Eligibility, 

• Placement and Programming, 

• Section 504 Accommodations, and 

• Behavior and Discipline 

With each topic, we will identify common liability issues and discuss practical, effective solutions to help schools avoid them.