Community Alliance for Special Education (CASE) CASE provides legal support, representation and training to parents throughout the Bay Area whose children need appropriate special education services. CASE advocates offer parents and community professionals free technical assistance on special education rights and services. A consultation is a 45-minute discussion, usually provided over the telephone, that is specific to a particular student or issue. During a consultation, a CASE advocate will advise the caller on how to better advocate for a student and/or clarify a matter of special education law, practice or procedure. During this consultation, the CASE advocate will determine whether the family may need direct representation. If such a determination is made, the family is asked to send the student's educational records to CASE for review. You can download the complete Special Education
Rights and Responsibilities Handbook from their website. This is a very helpful reference source to have. 1550 Bryant Street Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
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What is SEED? SEED
is a newly formed nonprofit organization run by volunteers to benefit
students with special needs in the Lafayette School District. SEED is
currently considering strategies to support a wide range of proposals
that could support and enrich the education of special needs students
in the Lafayette School District. SEED intends to raise funds
predominantly through applications for grants from private foundations
and public entities that provide grants. SEED will also sponsor
community-based fund raising events to help build a support community
for our parents with special needs children.
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