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Safety First:
It is wise to monitor your child during all "Trick or Treat" activities throughout the day. Double and even triple check candy, toys, and decorations. Yes, and have fun!!

This time of year is often hectic with many holidays coming up: Halloween, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. These transitions may cause anxiety for children. Take time to pay extra attention to our children with the many changes happening so quickly in their lives.

SpedMobile will be presenting this coming Saturday September 13, 2014 at the annual "Back to School and More" conference put on by Autism Conferences of America. We will be sharing our "Back to School Checklist" as well as our 'App' - "Sped Terms"
The conference is Friday & Saturday Four Points by Sheraton (Ahwatukee) Phoenix, AZ 10831 S. 51st Street Phoenix, AZ 85044

Excited to announce that we will soon launch a crowd source funding/PR campaign. We are preparing to produce a video series for parents of children receiving educational support and we need the capital to make this high quality and accessible for all families nationwide. Please look out for the announcement. You'll be pleasantly surpassed how inexpensively we can pull this off for.

Fully Informed Consent (by Steven R. Isham)
Premise:
Parents of school aged children in many schools around the U.S. are not receiving ‘Fully Informed Consent’ as described in:
• The Individuals with Disability Education Improvement Act 2004,
• As defined in the Federal Register dated August 14, 2006, or
• The Intergovernmental Agreement pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S).§11-952 et seq. between the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), a State Agency of the State of Arizona, and the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), a State Agency of the State of Arizona. C.F.R. §300.30 and A.R.S. §15-761(22).4.22 Parental Consent is informed consent provided by a parent as defined in Section 4.21 and as appropriate under law.
The Fully Informed Consent standard is consistent in all areas of human endeavor across the United States of America. Medicine, Law, Education, Special Education, Mental Health, and Organ Donation to name a few; consistently require people to be fully informed before action is to be taken.

The Nuremberg Code
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
Handing a Parent their Parental Rights and Procedural Safeguards in written form in English or in Spanish certainly does not meet the criteria for Fully Informed Consent. Arizona does not meet the standard of Fully Informed Consent.
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http://www.themobilityresource.com/surviving-your-childs-iep-meeting/

Take a read of this great article on preparing for the IEP meeting. We will re-post this when the next school year draws nearer, but you know how daunting the beginning of the year can be, so we thought for we'd post this now for those who like to plan ahead.

How to Survive Your Child's IEP meeting: A 12-Point Plan As a parent who has been through too many of these meetings, I can say I find them extremely stressful. I have a knot in my stomach for a week before the meeting and our school district is usually pretty good about meeting my children’s needs. So I am writing this for you parents that have to advoca…

A great resource for the Special Needs and Special Education community to know about.

The Mobility Resource Some disabilities prevent people from driving or riding in a car. We're here to change that.

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PLEASE take 30 seconds and learn a little about the SpedMobile app. The app is called Sped Terms (available for iOS and Android).

App Promo Special Education terminology app. Availble (Sped Terms) for Android and iTunes.

Saturday, June 7, 2014, Sped Mobile was represented at an University of Phoenix event. Way to go Steven R. Isham