by Michael Forrest | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the challenges for families advocating for their children is when they disagree with the findings of the evaluation done by the school and believe that the evaluation did not adequately examine areas of weakness or concerns expressed by the parent. An...
by Michael Forrest | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Massachusetts, transition planning for special education students begins when the student is 14 or when the team is developing the IEP that will be in place when the student turns 14. Transition planning is an opportunity and obligation to guide special education...
by Michael Forrest | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
A high point of my time in public education was working in a technical high school, supporting a model high school special education reading class. Initially, my role was to talk to our students and ask them if they would be willing to learn early literacy skills at...
by Michael Forrest | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Text-to-speech is a valuable tool for students with reading disabilities and should be made available at an early age. I have worked with students and tried many different text-to-speech options. When it came to accessing books from Bookshare for independent reading,...
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