Category Archives: IEP Team meetings

Should I Tape Record the IEP Meeting?

In my special education law practice in Connecticut, parents ask me all the time about tape recording their child’s IEP Team meetings.   Like most things, there are benefits and detriments to doing so, and I have heard parents’ attorneys and advocates come down on both sides of the question.  Some record each and every IEP [...] Continue reading

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You’re Not Invited

How is it that, in disputes between parents and school districts, whenever an IEP Team Member starts to align their recommendations with the parents’ position, they suddenly stop getting invited to that child’s IEP Meetings?  In my Connecticut special education law practice, I see this all the time.
Example 1:  the parents believe that their child [...] Continue reading

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