Parent Consent and Independent Educational Evaluation Procedural Safeguards Apply to Functional Behavior Assessment

  A functional behavior assessment, or FBA, is a tool to gather information about a student’s inappropriate or problem behavior to understand why a student engages in the behavior. Once an IEP team understands why the student is engaging in the behavior, the team can develop a behavior intervention plan, or BIP, to address the [...]

Moving On: The IDEA and Summary of Performance for Students Graduating or Aging Out of School

  Generally, the IDEA requires that once a school district determines that a student has a disability, the district must reevaluate (34 CFR 300.305) the student before the school district determines that the student no longer has a disability and is not eligible for IDEA services. That reevaluation must meet all of the requirements set [...]

Colorado DDD Proposes Two Step Plan: Change State Rules to Limit DD Eligibility, then Conduct Broad Public Discussion Regarding the DD Definition of the Future

Readers: I usually try to focus my posts on issues that are of interest nationally, rather than only in my home state of Colorado. This posting, however, focuses on an important  Colorado issue related to how individuals are determined eligible for services from Colorado’s developmental disabilities service delivery system. I want to get the word [...]