What Is an IEP?
Learn about individualized education programs, a form of special education to help kids with learning disabilities. Hear from a parent advocate on the IEP process, the IEP meeting and more.
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An IEP stands for Individualized Education Program. You'll hear people talk about IEP in different ways. There's IEP teams. There's IEP meetings. And the IEP, it stands for that plan itself. It puts into place what's called specialized instruction, which can be help in the general education classroom. It can be small group instruction. It can be one-to-one instruction. It can even be outside the classroom to help your child get the skills he needs to be able to work in the general education classroom. But sometimes it can be as simple as something called accommodations. And those accommodations are simple changes to the way things are being taught in the environment to help your child get there better. So, for example, a child who needs ...
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An IEP stands for Individualized Education Program. You'll hear people talk about IEP in different ways. There's IEP teams. There's IEP meetings. And the IEP, it stands for that plan itself. It puts into place what's called specialized instruction, which can be help in the general education classroom. It can be small group instruction. It can be one-to-one instruction. It can even be outside the classroom to help your child get the skills he needs to be able to work in the general education classroom. But sometimes it can be as simple as something called accommodations. And those accommodations are simple changes to the way things are being taught in the environment to help your child get there better. So, for example, a child who needs ...
