Elvin W. Houston will lead attendees through the legal citations to clarify what the law requires concerning Prior Written Notices and REEDS to ensure that evaluators are meeting their legal obligations, but also working efficiently to manage their time and attention. His presentation will help attendees better understand the law and meet their obligations while balancing competing demands on evaluator time and attention.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will distinguish legal requirements from practices, habits & folklore
- Attendees will identify opportunities to improve practices in documentation to more efficiently meet these requirements
Presented By: Elvin Houston, Attorney, Walsh Gallegos Kyle Robinson & Roalson, P.C., San Antonio
Elvin Houston is an attorney and partner in Walsh Gallegos. Elvin has practiced special education law and represented public schools for more than twenty years in the law firm's San Antonio office. He advises public school personnel concerning their obligations under federal and Texas law concerning the education of students with disabilities.
His practice also includes representing public schools in IEP meetings & in matters before Texas Education Agency, The United States Office of Civil Rights & the federal courts.
He is a frequent presenter at conferences on topics such as Child Find, evaluations, and IEP procedures under IDEA, as well as issues arising under Section 504.
This session is free to members of the Special Education Cooperative.
*This program has been submitted for approval for 3 hours of continuing education in the domain of Ethics for school psychologists in CE Broker. As such, participants must be registered, join the session within 15 minutes of it starting, and attend to the end to receive credit. Partial credit will not be provided. Participants attempting to log into the session after 15 minutes of content being presented will not be able to enter the Zoom meeting.**
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