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Meeting at school/filing 51A neglect against me/please read
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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 233904" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050215061529/http:/www.reedmartin.com/parentadvocates.htm" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20050215061529/http://www.reedmartin.com/parentadvocates.htm</a></p><p> <span style="color: navy"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The Americans with Disabilities Act, which covers all children eligible under Section 504 and under the IDEA, provides for action against the school district, or state education agency, when they retaliate against parents or their children. 42 U.S.C. 12203 prohibits "interference, coercion, intimidation, threats or retaliation" when a parent seeks to advocate for their disabled child. Since the parent was asking a simple question, would anyone characterize that response by the school district and state education agency as anything other than an attempt at coercion, intimidation, threats and retaliation in an attempt to interfere with the parent's advocacy?</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: navy"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-6656.pdf</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">there is nothing</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">in the Act that would prevent a State</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">from requiring a medical evaluation for</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">eligibility under other health</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">impairment, provided the medical</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">evaluation is conducted at no cost to the</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Melior'">parent.</span></p><p> </p><p> Also, 'In evaluating each child with a disability under &#167;&#167;300.531-300.536, the evaluation is sufficiently comprehensive to identify all of the child's special education and related services needs, whether or not commonly linked to the disability category in which the child has been classified. The child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, if appropriate, health[medical], vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities.'</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.bipolarchild.com/Newsletters/0206print.html" target="_blank">http://www.bipolarchild.com/Newsletters/0206print.html</a></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">'Hypersexuality in children is rarely discussed about for two reasons: one is that (bipolar or not) sexuality in children is simply not spoken about in public; and the other, sadly, is that parents of hypersexual children are afraid to mention the subject -- even over email. They are petrified that Child Protective Services will find out and wrongly assume that a hypersexual child is an overstimulated child, and that that overstimulation stems from sexual abuse in the home. Few people -- even the professionals at the Departments of Child and Families (DCF) or Child Protective Services (CPS) realize that hypersexuality is so common during the manic or hypomanic stages of bipolar disorder (in adults and in children) -- and so it is rarely if ever factored into the equation. Parents of bipolar children fear losing custody of their children based on these suspicions of abuse&#8230;.'</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/46996" target="_blank">http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/46996</a></span></p><p> </p><p> '&#8230;This sample of children provides strong support that hypersexuality in child mania occurs in the absence of abuse&#8230;.'</p><p></p><p></p><p>Seems like there was something else I wanted to pull for you, but it slips my memory.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Do you have an advocate?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 233904, member: 23"] [URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20050215061529/http:/www.reedmartin.com/parentadvocates.htm"]http://web.archive.org/web/20050215061529/http://www.reedmartin.com/parentadvocates.htm[/URL] [COLOR=navy][FONT=Arial]The Americans with Disabilities Act, which covers all children eligible under Section 504 and under the IDEA, provides for action against the school district, or state education agency, when they retaliate against parents or their children. 42 U.S.C. 12203 prohibits "interference, coercion, intimidation, threats or retaliation" when a parent seeks to advocate for their disabled child. Since the parent was asking a simple question, would anyone characterize that response by the school district and state education agency as anything other than an attempt at coercion, intimidation, threats and retaliation in an attempt to interfere with the parent's advocacy?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][FONT=Arial]http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-6656.pdf[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Melior]there is nothing[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]in the Act that would prevent a State[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]from requiring a medical evaluation for[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]eligibility under other health[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]impairment, provided the medical[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]evaluation is conducted at no cost to the[/FONT] [FONT=Melior]parent.[/FONT] Also, 'In evaluating each child with a disability under §§300.531-300.536, the evaluation is sufficiently comprehensive to identify all of the child's special education and related services needs, whether or not commonly linked to the disability category in which the child has been classified. The child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, if appropriate, health[medical], vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities.' [URL]http://www.bipolarchild.com/Newsletters/0206print.html[/URL] [FONT=Arial]'Hypersexuality in children is rarely discussed about for two reasons: one is that (bipolar or not) sexuality in children is simply not spoken about in public; and the other, sadly, is that parents of hypersexual children are afraid to mention the subject -- even over email. They are petrified that Child Protective Services will find out and wrongly assume that a hypersexual child is an overstimulated child, and that that overstimulation stems from sexual abuse in the home. Few people -- even the professionals at the Departments of Child and Families (DCF) or Child Protective Services (CPS) realize that hypersexuality is so common during the manic or hypomanic stages of bipolar disorder (in adults and in children) -- and so it is rarely if ever factored into the equation. Parents of bipolar children fear losing custody of their children based on these suspicions of abuse….'[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][URL]http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/46996[/URL][/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] '…This sample of children provides strong support that hypersexuality in child mania occurs in the absence of abuse….' Seems like there was something else I wanted to pull for you, but it slips my memory. Do you have an advocate? [/QUOTE]
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