This searchable database contains bibliographic information for literature (research-based and policy/practice) relating to dispute resolution in special education.

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Person-Centered Planning

This article describes an innovative planning process that is centered on the person--the student--and that incorporates up-to-date technologies. It's called Making Action Plans (MAPS). For the past 30 years special educators have included parents as collaborative partners in their children's...Learn more

Predictors of parents perception toward the IEP meeting

UMI Number: 3507702 [Abstract] "In the field of educational leadership, as well as special education, parental participation is paramount given that federal law has mandated that schools provide and show evidence that they foster parental participation. This quantitative, non-experimental study...Learn more

Representation in Mediation: What We Know from Empirical Research

This article provides an overview of research on representation in mediation, presenting both original research and a review of existing studies. With a primary focus on court-connected civil cases, Wissler explains "different mediation programs appear to have reached different conclusions about...Learn more

Resolution meetings: State supports and practices.

This In-Brief Policy Analysis is based on a survey sent to all special education units of state education agencies and interviews with eight states. Findings are synthesized for types of supports provided, frequency of resolution meetings, factors that impact the use of resolution meetings, and...Learn more

Restorative Practice in Special Education Dispute Resolution

This publication provides readers with information about the history and origins of Restorative Justice, before discussing the current application of Restorative Practice in educational settings. Next, we highlight the unique challenges parents and educators face while engaging in the planning...Learn more

Special Education Hearing Officers: Balance and Bias

Abstract The use of a simple 50%-50% box score of decisions for parents and districts, respectively, is a false measure of the impartiality of hearing officers under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This analysis canvasses relevant structural factors that the stakeholders,...Learn more

Student involvement in Individualized Education Program meetings.

We conducted a review of the literature to investigate interventions designed to increase students' involvement in their individualized education program (IEP) process. Sixteen studies were identified and analyzed in terms of six variables: purpose, participants/setting, design, dependent variables...Learn more

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