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2009, Third Edition, Including a 2019 Supplement 2009 ? Third Edition ? Including a 2019 Supplement

On the Cover "Lighthouse" was created by the Wisconsin outdoor artist and painter, Elton Krafft, (1914 ? 2001). The "Lighthouse" reflects the pure joy that Elton Krafft found in painting Wisconsin landscape themes. A prolific painter, the Lake Geneva artist spent most of his 87 years creating Wisconsin impressionist style paintings. A gentle, sensitive and kind man, he was an inventive colorist and daring manipulator of paint and pictorial space, boldly manipulating strokes of paint with palette knife and paintbrush for the sake of painting - for the sheer pleasure of recording his perceptions of the visible world with extraordinary colors and resulting shapes. He enjoyed painting through the changing seasons and saw beauty in the darkest, gloomiest weather. "You discover things by painting," he once said. "It's been a lifetime of discovery for my own self. Every time you put something down on canvas something happens to something else."

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Special Education

In Plain Language

A User-Friendly Handbook on Special Education Laws, Policies and Practices in Wisconsin

2009, Third Edition, Including a 2019 Supplement

Collaboratively developed and reviewed by Wisconsin Parents, Advocacy Organizations, School and Special Education Administrators, General and Special Educators, Service Providers, Union Members, Special Education Attorneys, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

2019 Project Authors

Nissan Bar-Lev, WCASS

Courtney Salzer, WIFACETS

Margaret Resan, DPI

Nico Mittnacht, DPI

Sara Totten, WCASS

Wendy Overturf, WIFACETS

Original 2009 Project Authors

Nissan Bar-Lev, WCASS

Courtney Salzer, WIFACETS

Patricia Bober, DPI

Susan Endress, WIFACETS

Greg Dietz, WCASS

Elliot Weiman, DPI

This handbook was made possible by funding from IDEA grant number H027A060064A. Its content may be reprinted in whole or in part, with credit to Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction acknowledged. However, reproduction of this handbook in whole or in part for resale is not authorized.

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Table of Contents

Authors Note on the 2019 Supplement: Significant Development in Special Education since 2009......................................................................................... 8

Introduction to the 2009 Publication............................................................... 9

Part 1: The IEP Process.................................................................................. 15

Referral How to refer Informing parents before referral LEA procedures

IEP TEAM PARTICIPANTS..................................................................................................................................15 IEP team

Parents Regular teacher Special education teacher LEA representative Someone to explain tests Other participants The child Excuse participants Transition at age three IEP TEAM'S JOB ....................................................................................................................................................19 Evaluation Write IEP Decide placement Parent participation

Notice Schedule

Timeline Intent to evaluate Evaluation IEP Exception to timeline Additional time for parent participation Copy of evaluation report

EVALUATION PROCEDURES ..............................................................................................................................23 Evaluation notice Consent for evaluation

If parents refuse consent More than one evaluation procedure Information from more than one

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