by Alison Stone | Jul 7, 2026 | Advocacy
If your child is struggling and you have been told an evaluation is the next step, you are standing at the doorway to the entire special education process. Everything that follows, the services, the accommodations, the plan, starts here. In Arizona, a special...
by Alison Stone | Jul 2, 2026 | Advocacy
If you have been lying awake wondering whether your child needs more help than the classroom is giving them, you are already doing the most important thing a parent can do. You are paying attention. The short answer is this: you can request an IEP evaluation in...
by Alison Stone | Jun 25, 2026 | Advocacy
When the IEP team won’t agree to what your child needs and informal escalation has not worked, Arizona offers three formal dispute resolution paths under IDEA: state complaint, mediation, and due process. State complaint is a written allegation investigated by...
by Alison Stone | Jun 25, 2026 | Advocacy
If your child’s IEP team just told you that Extended School Year services were denied, you are not out of options. Under Arizona special education rules, an ESY denial is a formal IEP team decision that you can challenge, and the law gives you specific tools to...
by Alison Stone | Jun 18, 2026 | Advocacy
A MET, or Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team, is the group of professionals (along with you, the parent) responsible for determining whether your child qualifies for special education services under IDEA. In Arizona, the MET typically includes a school psychologist,...
by Alison Stone | Jun 18, 2026 | Advocacy
If your child has an active IEP and the school is not delivering the services, missing the accommodations, or simply ignoring sections of the document, you have enforceable rights under federal special education law and Arizona regulations. An IEP is not a suggestion....
