This session focused on the legal obligations of schools in light of school closures due to COVID-19 and their impact on educators of students with disabilities. Since COVID-19 has turned the lives of the majority of the nation’s students and educators upside down, state and federal entities are left with the task of finding solutions […]

This session focused on ways that challenges to student privacy are playing out during the COVID-19 crisis. It is not proving to easy to maintain traditional confidentiality protections under FERPA and HIPAA in the sudden shift to online education and in some of the other hastily-assembled practices that many schools and district have switched to […]

This webinar focused on what educators can do to partner with families to ensure FAPE in distance learning situations. We looked at the recent federal guidance for providing special education during this pandemic, along with specific instances of work being done in schools around the country.

This webinar discusses the extreme amount of variability among deaf learners- not only in their communication preferences, but also in their language development and learning needs.