Legal Help Resources

Autism Resources

Legal Help and Information
IDEA, IEP page,

IDEA
Real IEP Information
Ed Law (Educational Law)
Wright's Law

10 ways to have fun at your IEP (Comic Relief)
For IEP justification of Physical Exercise (ie horseback therapy, ballet, karate...)
Special Equestrian Riding Therapy, Inc (You can use these pages to justify some horseback therapy or you can look for a Riding Center near you)

From: Andrea G Martin kazoo5@JUNO.COM A listmate, Andrea Martin, invented Log It about 3 years ago as a data
tracking system to facilitate discrete trial training and the laborious note taking of therapists. It's been very successful, but she no longer distributes the software. It's purpose remains to be a simple to use tracking tool for in-home therapy. For more information, write Doug (my distributor) at iowapc@aol.com, http://www.iowapc.com

Cindy and Mike Smith TRI12P@worldnet.att.net "The Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping w/ Sensory Integration
Dysfunction" by Carol Stock is a current book on Sensory Integration, very useful for parents! Stanley Greenspan wrote a little note of praise on the back as well.

From: Becky and Scott Hanson ESHanson12@AOL.COM Reading Refles: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read by Carmen McGuinness and Geoffrey McGuinness, the founders of Read America, Inc is a book of 350 pages with lots of practice pages to copy. A good introduction about reading explains about how to teach this
program: it includes simple diagnostic tests to determine your child's reading level, a literacy growth for goals, detailed instructions on how to correct faulty reading strategies, easy to follow lesson plans, hands-on materials, worksheets, stories, word exercises and games. Available from Simon & Schuster, http://www.SimonSays.com (or Free Press at 1-800-732-3868 in Canada).