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Summary: Great Resourse
Review: Parents need this book, it is full of very helpful information.It tells you what you need to know and what you need to do. With the cases in the back you have insight into what has became law. This is one fine book. I couldn't get along without it. It is the one resourse I take everywhere with me.
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Summary: Empowers parents to effectively navigate spec ed law
Review: Parents with children in special education will appreciate this book. An "all-in-one-place" reference book you can continually refer to when faced with confusing regulations and intimidating school officials. Save your sanity and your time. This book makes you feel you have an attorney at the IEP table with you.
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Summary: Brilliant and necessary for anybody with special ed issues
Review: Pete and Pam Wright have pulled together one of the most important how-to manuals ever written for navigating your way through the morass of special education, and for using the law to demand/get a good education for your child. (Pete is the attorney who argued and won the "Shannon Carter" case before the Supreme Court, putting ADD/ADHD on the map.) Highly recommend you get and read this book: it's a goldmine of information.
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Summary: the book is the single best source for parents and lawyers
Review: Pete Wright is the attorney who turned things around in special education by winning the famous "Shannon Carter" case holding that parents did not have to wait for lethargic or negligent school districts to help their children. Carter held that the parents could place the child at an out of district school and get reimbursment later, whether the school they chose was approved by state or local authorities or not.I am an attorney who has handled literally hundreds of these special education matters.Be this book, I would have to carry an armful of materials to a hearing or an IEP meeting. Now its all in one paperback volume. It is also in language the non-lawyer can understand. (and even lawyers). It is also laced with the Wright's wisdom from their many years as pioneers in this specialized field of law. Don't go to a hearing or school IEP meeting without it. Reviewed by William Laviano, Esq. Laviano Law Offices P.C. Ridgefield, Ct.
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Summary: the book is the single best source for parents and lawyers
Review: Pete Wright is the attorney who turned things around in special education by winning the famous "Shannon Carter" case holding that parents did not have to wait for lethargic or negligent school districts to help their children. Carter held that the parents could place the child at an out of district school and get reimbursment later, whether the school they chose was approved by state or local authorities or not. I am an attorney who has handled literally hundreds of these special education matters.Be this book, I would have to carry an armful of materials to a hearing or an IEP meeting. Now its all in one paperback volume. It is also in language the non-lawyer can understand. (and even lawyers). It is also laced with the Wright's wisdom from their many years as pioneers in this specialized field of law. Don't go to a hearing or school IEP meeting without it. Reviewed by William Laviano, Esq. Laviano Law Offices P.C. Ridgefield, Ct.
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Summary: One-stop-shopping for Special Education Law
Review: Prior to purchasing Pete and Pam's Book, "Wrightslaw," I was forced to look to a variety of resources in order to locate all of the pertinent educational laws, codes, regulations, and landmark special education cases. I now have one legal resource manual, a book which fits easily into a briefcase for travel to IEP team meetings, hearings, appeals, mediations, workshops, conferences and seminars. I have purchased two books -- one for my own use and the other as a loaner to parents who cannot afford to buy their own. This book is a "must have" for knowledgable advocates, parents who want to know more about special education law, and attorneys who want a "one-stop shopping" legal resource.
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Summary: Most useful all-around resource for special ed advocates
Review: Special education law and regulations have become complex, even arcane, and occupy hundreds of fine print in the U.S. Code and regulations. Distilling the essence of the law into a manual that lawyers and advocates can use to navigate their way through the substantive and procedural thicket of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a formidable achievement. Pete and Pamela Wright have created a clear, comprehensive and user-friendly synthesis of special education law. As a lawyer specializing in special education law, I have wished for years for a treatise like this to which I could refer general practitioners, advocates and even the more experienced lawyer. If you regularly represent parents and special education students in due process hearings, this is the kind of manual you will want to keep on your desk with perhaps an extra copy in your briefcase to take along to due process hearings. It's an invaluable resource.
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Summary: Wrightslaw: Special Education Law
Review: This book is a must have if you have a child with special needs. It is the most comprehensive book around for helping your child get an education! I call it my special education bible. If you can only afford one book to help you through the special education maze, this is the ONE to buy! Sissy
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Summary: Wrightslaw: Special Education Law
Review: This book is a must have if you have a child with special needs. It is the most comprehensive book around for helping your child get an education! I call it my special education bible. If you can only afford one book to help you through the special education maze, this is the ONE to buy! Sissy
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Summary: The one book to buy
Review: This book is extremely well written, concise and incredibly practical. As a parent of a special needs child, my copy is dogeared with tons of stickies coming out the sides and highlighted paragraphs throughout. The unraveling of caselaw portions and the clear writing style help you understand the nuances of special ed law, expectations you can have, how to be smarter in and out of an IEP meeting, and how not to be bushwacked. It has the good stuff, but doesn't skip on the real language either. Well balanced with nothing fluffy. I'd rather lose my dayrunner than my copy of Wrightslaw.
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