TAESE Provides Special Education Law Conference

The Utah State Office of Education and the CPD's Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE) teamed up to offer the Utah Institute on Special Education Law and Practice conference in August in Ogden. This annual two day event brought together 826 administrators, educators, service providers, parents and family members to learn more about legal issues in special education.

Topics covered during the conference included: Assistive Technology, 504 Revisions, Manifestation Determinations, Use of Aversives, FEPRA, State Legislative Issues, and Child Find.

Two preconference sessions were held that focused on special education finance, tracking & recordkeeping for regular IDEA and ARRA funds, maintenance of effort, supplement not supplant, excess cost, proportionate share for private schools, CEIS-Use, tracking requirements, etc. One of the preconference sessions provided the annual training for due process hearing officers, mediators and facilitators approved by the Utah State Office of Education and Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center.

TAESE provides conference organization services to several states throughout the year, including the following:

* Utah Law Conference
* Nebraska/Kansas/Iowa Law Conference
* Bureau of Indian Education Special Education Academy
* Kansas Multi-tier System of Supports Conference
* Kansas Conference on Autism
* Kansas Transition Conference