Age: School-Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Autism, ADHD
Theme: ABA in school
Language: English

Age: Unspecified
Gender: Female
Location: Louisiana
Disability: Unspecified
Theme: More details at IEP meeting
Language: English

Age: School-Age
Gender: Male, Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Unspecified
Theme: LRE, inclusion. behavior support
Language: English

Age: Early Childhood
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Autism
Theme: Procedural safeguard and due process explained; Local agencies providing services for parents; accountability for districts,
Language: English

Age: Early Childhood
Gender: Female
Location: Tennessee
Disability: Down Syndrome
Theme: More funding for inclusion with LRE;
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: Increase diversity of classes, help parents understand the law better, provide documentation so parents understand it and it isn't repetitive
Language: Spanish

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Learning Disability
Theme: Funding (at least 40%)
Language: English

Age: Not Disclosed
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Not Disclosed
Theme: Accommodations not being implemented, sibling, parent advisory councils
Language: English

Age: Early Childhood
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Down Syndrome
Theme: Clear, strong language about inclusion, LRE, needs of individuals with disabilities; strengthen laws
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Autism
Theme: Special education laws are rarely followed
Language: English

Age: Not Disclosed
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Not Disclosed
Theme: Low income families have access to supports and services
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Dyslexia
Theme: Understanding the law, providing information in other languages
Language: English

Age: Not Disclosed
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Language Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Learning Disability
Theme: Earlier and efficient testing
Language: English

Age: Not Disclosed
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Learning Disability
Theme: Ensure that all children with disabilities are provided FAPE, including those who are gifted and Learning Disability
Language: English

Age: Adult Service
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: MS
Theme: Government is very concerned about the education of all children
Language: English

Age: Not Disclosed
Gender: Female
Location: Tennessee
Disability: Autism
Theme: Provide more services and therapies, provide supports for Latino families
Language: Spanish

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Tennessee
Disability: Autism
Theme: Increase age to 26
Language: English

Age: Early Childhood
Gender: Female
Location: Tennessee
Disability: Autism
Theme: Provide more education for teachers in autism
Language: Spanish

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Tennessee
Disability: Autism
Theme: Lack of education about classmates with disabilities
Language: Spanish

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Washington DC
Disability: Stroke
Theme: Child find, parent training, FAPE
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Learning disabilities
Theme: Transition services into adult life, waitlist for funding, more school training on transition programming, better/streamlined individualized transition plans and services into adult life
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Louisiana
Disability: Autism, genetic disorder
Theme: solving staffing shortage, increasing federal special education funding to states
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: Maine
Disability: Autism, ADHD, Anxiety disorder, Conversion disorder
Theme: LRE definition, evaluation, and guidelines needs to be revised, inclusion is not always best or equitable
Language: English

Age: Early Childhood
Gender: Female
Location: New Mexico
Disability: Autism
Theme: Solving teacher shortage, lack of teacher preparation, increasing funding for special education
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Autism, Intellectual disability
Theme: Wants IDEA to require outside evaluation to eliminate school bias, parents should be told all options and not only the ones the IEP team tells parents about
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Cyclic vomiting syndrome
Theme: increasing state funding for special education, following doctors' recommendations for the IEP
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Multiple learning disabilities
Theme: improving consistency in service delivery between states, increasing federal special education funding
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Autism, medical complexity, genetic disorder
Theme: Improving consistency of services across states, increasing federal funding for special education
Language: English

Age: School Age
Gender: Female
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Mitochondrial disease
Theme: Providing special education services in neighborhood schools
Language: English