117- Your Legal Rights at School: Get the IEP or 504 Plan Your Child Is Entitled To
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Special education attorney Matt Cohen, Esq., interprets the "legal speak" of evaluations, IEPs, and 504 Plans, and equips parents to secure the accommodations and services their child is entitled to by law.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi everyone it's Susan Coff and I'm here for Attitude magazine's ADHD |
| 0:16.7 | experts presentation today. Today's topic is super timely as we head back into |
| 0:21.6 | school. We're very pleased to have our guest today, |
| 0:24.0 | Matt Cohen Esquire, who is an expert on legal rights and special education law. |
| 0:31.2 | He'll be talking about a very important issue for many of our readers and many of you |
| 0:35.2 | listening and that is specifically what are your legal rights at school? What educational |
| 0:40.2 | services is your child entitled to under the law and how should you go about setting up an IEP or |
| 0:46.0 | 504 plan and he's also going to touch on evaluations testing and accommodations. |
| 0:52.0 | Matt is the founder of Matt Conan Associates, where he specializes in special education and mental health law. |
| 0:58.0 | He's a legal commentator for LD online, a wonderful site by the way, and serves on Chad's Public Policy Committee. |
| 1:04.3 | He's also a frequent contributor to Attitude magazine for which we're grateful, and we thank |
| 1:08.8 | him again so much today for joining us. |
| 1:11.2 | Today's session is brought to you by Four Brain, a unique and |
| 1:14.3 | groundbreaking technology that helps improve attention and sensory |
| 1:17.5 | processing in both children and adults. For more information, please go to |
| 1:21.8 | www.4brain. Thank you for Brain for helping us today. So with that let me turn it over to Matt again with our thanks for being here today. |
| 1:32.0 | Hi, thanks for the nice introduction and I'm happy to be able to share information today that will hopefully |
| 1:37.8 | be helpful to all of you who are listening. |
| 1:41.0 | This is an area of great frustration for many, many parents and likely for many |
| 1:46.1 | educators as well. 30 plus years after both the Special Education Law of the |
| 1:51.7 | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Civil Rights |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ADDitude, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of ADDitude and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.