Melinda Taylor, LLC

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I combine expert collaboration, creative strategy, and a give-forward model that turns every paid service into free or discounted advocacy and guidance for families in need. **Melinda Taylor does not offer legal advice of any kind.

**I am merely here to offer my help and experience. All special education decisions are ultimately your own.

**All materials are for your personal use only.

09/19/2026

1:1 aide for mod/severe behaviors? "Clearly you haven't worked with my population." Let's talk about my population. 24 years in special ed in ECSE, Behavior, Life Skills classrooms, as well as ABA working with extreme behaviors, and zero kids who needed a one-on-one for behavior. Teach replacement behaviors, intervene on the antecedent side, and look at YOURSELF and your systems first. A 1:1 should be reserved for access needs. Teachers, are you managing behaviors or teaching? 👇

09/17/2026

Behavior is communication 🐒 Every behavior has a function, including monkey behavior. If your child's BIP only focuses on stopping a behavior, ask what it's replacing it with.

09/12/2026

Can they take recess away as punishment? In Texas, the law changed — SB 25 protects recess and PE minutes from being taken for behavior or unfinished work, K–5. But there's a loophole, and there's a second argument most parents never make: check the IEP. If recess is how social skills goals or movement breaks get delivered, it's a service — and services aren't consequences. 👇 What's the count in your child's file this nine weeks?

09/10/2026

Birthday wish list from 30,000 feet. Shares and follows accepted as gifts. Teachers — the laminator one is real and you know it.

09/09/2026

ABA vs. speech therapy — which one actually gets your child talking? I've had SLPs tell me straight out that ABA doesn't start language. The research doesn't sort it that way. What has real evidence for kids who aren't talking yet is blended developmental-behavioral work, early AAC, and parent coaching — and the strongest language outcomes come when parents AND professionals are both doing the work. Not one or the other. Three questions to ask at your next meeting are at the end. 💛

09/08/2026

Gifted education is not special education. No IEP, no ARD, no prior written notice, no complaint you can file when the service disappears. Texas mandates GT identification and services — but a state mandate is not a right.

Gifted is neurodivergent. A 2006 NIMH study in Nature found a completely different cortical development trajectory: a 10-year-old reading at high school level who still regulates like a 7-year-old.

And UConn's compacting research found 40–50% of the curriculum can be cut for these kids with no drop in scores. So if your district pulls your child out one day a week — what happens the other four?

I'm going on a learning adventure! I've got a few posts scheduled! Back on the 23rd!
09/07/2026

I'm going on a learning adventure! I've got a few posts scheduled! Back on the 23rd!

09/04/2026

Special education — five things I’ve said that made somebody mad, and I’d say all five again. ABA vs. school, one-to-one aides, going to the teacher first, behavior as a teaching problem, and school funding (plus a correction on that last one). Monday: gifted programs.

Comment if something I said made you look at things a different way!. We probably agree more than you think.🤔🤔🤔

09/03/2026

CLARIFICATIONS:
Texas capped special education at 8.5% for 13 years.

I made a video about school stadiums. Somebody pushed back, I went and did the research, and I owe a correction — athletics isn’t where the money goes.

But here’s what I found instead. From 2004 to 2017, Texas flagged any district serving more than 8.5% of its students in special education and told them to bring the numbers down. Kids with autism, dyslexia, ADHD. Kids who were blind and deaf. Denied.
Thirteen years is a whole school career.

Where were you in 2004-2017? 👇

09/03/2026

CLARIFICATION VIDEO NOW POSTED. Go watch!
School bond money, pretty buildings, new stadiums, and why your kid with a disability got denied services

I’m not anti-athletics — I’ve got two sons in high school sports. I just want to know why that’s the only door we’re willing to build.

Buildings don’t teach kids. People teach kids.

Where do you land on this one? 👇

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