Is Your Child’s Disability Adversely Affecting Educational Performance? It can be confusing for parents to understand how their child’s disability may qualify...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA): The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is a federal tax law that contains hundreds of tax and spending provisions. Whether they’re good or bad is a matter of perspective and depends on your tax bracket. The Good One of its flashier accomplishments is the creation of a...
When Winter Makes Everything Harder: Supporting Your Child’s Social Life During the Coldest Months
If you're a parent of a child with special needs, you know that winter can feel like more than just a change of seasons. The shorter days, the indoor recess, the cancelled playdates because of weather—suddenly your child's social world shrinks at the very time when...
What Happens When a Child with an IEP Is Retained or Held Back?
Grade retention is always a fraught subject in education law. For a multitude of reasons, no student wants to be held back, and their parents or guardians would also much prefer they move up a grade with the rest of their cohort. For schoolchildren with IEPs, these...
Long-Term Care and Medicaid Planning
No one likes to think about the possibility of needing long-term care, but the statistics tell a sobering story: nearly 70% of Americans turning 65 today will require some form of long-term care services during their lifetime. In New Jersey, where the costs of care...
Planning for a Child with Disabilities as They Turn 18 in New Jersey
Turning 18 is a major event from both a social and legal perspective. Most teenagers and their families look forward to 18th birthdays because they represent a new stage of maturity and new opportunities. But for the parents or guardians of young people with...