Special Ed on Special Ed
This podcast offers essential insights for parents of children with disabilities, covering topics from advocating for your child’s rights through the special education process to innovative interventions and practical support strategies. Each episode features conversations with experts, empowering you to confidently navigate your child’s unique educational journey. Join me for guidance, inspiration, and a supportive community on your path.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Maximizing Independence for Students with Autism: A conversation with Julie Swanson, The Life Skills Lady
Demystifying Psychological Evaluations: Insights from Dr. Diana Naddeo
Welcome to our enlightening episode, where we delve …
The Long Term Impact of School Shootings with Deb Del Vecchio-Scully, LPC, NCC, BCN, DCMHS
On the 10th Anniversary of the Sandy Hook Shooting, I speak with Deb Del Vecchio-Scully, a trauma specialist, about the long-term impacts of school shootings.
Social Skills Training rooted in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): a conversation with Justyna Balzar, M.Ed. BCBA LBA (CT)
When people hear ABA, they usually think of Autism. However, social skills training is a component of applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy that can help students with social skills deficits. ABA s…
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) with Dr. Judy Grossman
This is an essential episode because Social Emotional Learning is not just for students with special education needs - everyone needs social-emotional learning skills!
Social-Emotional Learning, also…
Barriers to Special Education: Special Education Legal Fund
A key component to public education is that it should be FREE! This includes special education. But what if you can't get the special education your child is entitled to? What happens when your schoo…
IEE = Independent Educational Evaluations
Today Diane Wilcutts, a special education advocate from Connecticut, joins me to talk about Independent Educational Evaluations or IEEs. Evaluations are a critical piece of the special education proc…
State Complaints, and a little on IEEs too
State Complaints are just one dispute resolution options available to Parents of children with special education needs. Our favorite advocate, Stacey Tié, joins me to break down the State Complaint p…
Who's on your BOE?
Knowing your child’s IEP team isn’t enough. To be the best advocate for your child, you need to know who makes the decisions, how, and when.
Your local Board of Education (BOE) consists of lay rep…
Why we need learning options
Going back to school in person shouldn’t be a choice between a family member and an education. But for some families, it is just that. For children living with immunocompromised family members, goi…
Hanging Out and Going Back
Justyna & Meghan from The Hangout Spot join me today to discuss how kids are adjusting to “back to normal” back to school! While I wouldn’t necessarily call it “normal” we are going back and most kid…
End of year wrap up
My office mates join me to sum up IEP season, discuss the trends we saw, and postulate on what we should expect for '21-22. You can reach us all at SpecialEd.Law
A transcript of this episode can be…
Summer isn't just a courtESY
Summer's coming! So today, special education parent and advocate, Lisa Lightner, founder of A Day in Our Shoes, joins me to discuss Extended School Year services. What are they? Who gets them? And…
What's the deal with mediation?
What's the deal with Mediation? Mediation is a wonderful tool for resolving disputes with your school district. It is voluntary, free, and offered by your State, so today we are going to check it o…
We're going to SuperD!ville
Today we head to SuperD!Ville where children who learn differently (and their peers) find out about how their brains work and social emotional learning. We talk with Peggy Stern, Founder and CEO, an…
A Day in Our Shoes on COVID and Comp Ed
Happy IEP season! Today, special education attorney Laura Henneghan joins Lisa Lightner and A Day in Our Shoes to discuss Compensetory Education for services missed due to the global pandemic. She …
How SMART are your goals?
With IEP season comes IEPs and with IEPs comes Goals and Objectives, the heart and soul of your child's IEP. So it is critical that your child's goals and objectives are Smart, Measurable, Attainable…
Beware the Ides...
With March comes IEP season and it's time to prep! Around the middle of March, schools start holding IEP meetings to plan for the following school year. School districts are slammed trying to schedul…