Avoid compliance missteps with this guide — packed with analysis of your legal requirements, commentary on existing and cases plus legal pitfalls unique to the education of students with hearing impairments, visual impairments and deaf-blindness.

You’ll make sound decisions on eligibility, placement, IEP implementation and more with guidance to:

• Determine how the ADA's effective communications standard might apply to your district's provision of assistive technology and related services
• Plan for personnel shortages to ensure students get the specialized services they need to receive FAPE
• Identify potential barriers to program accessibility, especially important with computer-based instruction
• Distinguish between related services your district is required to provide and medical treatments it is not

With cases grouped by issues, you can quickly see how different courts and hearing officers ruled. Plus, you get complete text of the 2015 federal guidance on the effective communications requirement — a top concern of special educators today.