What gets “disclosed” and what does not was the issue at the center of the recently released document concerning Hannah Poling. I have “disclosure” and “transparency” of a slightly different sort on my mind right now. Charlie’s IEP meeting is today and, amid reading over documents and evaluations and forms, reading up on IDEA at Wrightslaw, writing up some things, reviewing the draft IEP, I’ve been thinking about how key good, honest, and trusting communication is not only in creating Charlie’s IEP, but for his education as a whole.
Charlie’s speech is very limited and—aside from what I observe in his …read more