18- Securing Accommodations: Working with Your ADHD Child's School
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2013
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Special education lawyer Matt Cohen, J.D., answers parents' questions about getting teachers on your team, best IEP and 504 Plans for ADHD children, steps to take when your child is denied accommodations, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Good afternoon everyone is Susan Cl Susan Clough from that Attitude magazine and we're very |
| 0:16.0 | very pleased today to have Matt Cohen with us. Matt is an attorney with more than 20 years |
| 0:21.9 | experience in special education law. |
| 0:25.0 | He is the author of several books, |
| 0:27.0 | has a wonderful website that you should all check out |
| 0:30.0 | called Matt Cohen and Associates.com and a blog that is a great deal of interest to parents. |
| 0:37.2 | So with that let me welcome Matt and he turned it over to him to give an introduction. |
| 0:41.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm really excited to be able over to give an introduction. Thank you. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm really excited to be able to talk to people |
| 0:45.9 | who are concerned about services for children |
| 0:48.4 | with ADHD in the public schools. |
| 0:50.8 | This is a topic that sadly has been one of concern for the last 30 years. |
| 0:58.0 | It's of concern because ADHD continues to be a diagnosis that remains controversial and one that continues to have |
| 1:08.1 | significant impact for children both diagnosed and undiagnosed within the school system and in their lives in general. |
| 1:17.2 | The ADHD designation is one that is made typically by clinicians but is a diagnosis that can also be made |
| 1:26.6 | by school evaluation teams. |
| 1:29.3 | Unfortunately, when the law was passed in 1975, ADHD was not specifically identified as one of the disability |
| 1:36.7 | categories and the combination of there being controversy and dispute in the society at large as to the legitimacy of ADHD as a diagnosis |
| 1:47.9 | and there being no specific reference to ADHD within the special education law led many schools to |
| 1:56.1 | take the position that ADHD was not a covered disorder. |
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