About
Lawyer, Author, Professor, Disability Activist, Educational Surrogate. Law exercise centered on students with disabilities who've been denied the right education. Experience in IEP meetings, 504 meetings, mediation, due system, and manifestation determinations. Some of my exercise is spent advocating for LGBTQ students in addition to adults with disabilities. Author of Do Not Tweet at an IEP Meeting. Popular local, kingdom-wide, country wide, and international presenter and teacher on special education legal rights, disability discrimination. Author and facilitator of Mock IEPs, performing throughout The United States. Executive Director and founding father of SPED*NET New Canaan, a monthly forum targeted on unique education and section 504 issues, presenting monthly speakers, state-huge conferences, considerable training guides, and nation-wide listserv. Created and preserve the website – www.spednet.org – winner of the CT Coalition for Inclusive Education media award. Adjunct Professor for the University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT, coaching unique schooling law to graduate college students. Surrogate Parent for the Connecticut State Department of Education. Insure that students with disabilities, whose legal father or mother is the Department of Children and Families (DCF), receive the appropriate education. Fostered one in every of my surrogate students! has club of Lambda Legal and GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders). has club of the GLAD Lawyer Referral Service. I in my opinion ensured that my eldest of 4 youngsters, Ieva, who has Down syndrome, became completely and correctly protected in our neighborhood high college. Yep, she even took Algebra. She graduated from Berkshire Hills Music Academy. › ›
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- Education Law
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
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- Latvian: Spoken, Written
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Graduation year: 1982
