IEP guidance and resources, and advocacy-informed tools to support stronger IEPs and better outcomes for students. Created from years of real-world experience in IEP and 504 meetings.

In Your IEP Playbook: A Parent’s Guide to Confident Advocacy, disability parent and special education advocate Lisa Lightner delivers a practical guide for parents and caregivers of children with ...

Fall crafts are great until you realize you need 27 supplies, a hot glue gun, and an entire afternoon to make something that looks remotely like the picture. This fall wreath craft is a little more ...

Let’s face it. This is what keeps us up at night. Nothing has a special needs parent facing their own mortality more than having a child with disabilities and thinking of that developmentally disabled ...

Charter Schools and IEPs or Special Education is a very misunderstood concept, even though the law is actually pretty clear. Some of that confusion? It comes from the charter schools themselves. They ...

When I first published this article in October 2025, social media was in a tizzy over mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education, including major cuts to OSEP, the Office of Special Education ...

Your child’s IEP says they’re supposed to receive 30 minutes of reading instruction every day. Or speech therapy twice a week. Or 45 minutes of specially designed math instruction. But the special ...

Time is abstract. We adults forget that because we spend our entire lives watching the clock. We know what “later,” “before lunch,” “next week” and “in a little while” mean. For some kids, those words ...

Most of the questions that I receive as a special education advocates are about the implementation of the IEP. Let’s face it. IEPs are not an easy document to understand at times because of its length ...

When a child has written expression disorder, the problem is often much bigger than messy handwriting or a few misspelled words. Your child may be able to tell you exactly what they know, yet struggle ...

Need something simple and sensory-friendly that actually helps your child calm down? Say hello to these free finger tracing calming cards, printable visual and sensory tools that can help kids with ...

If you’re looking for IEP goals for low functioning students, chances are you’re working with a student who needs significant support with academics, communication, daily living skills, behavior, or ...