Help - I Need a Sample Special Education 10 Day Written Request Letter!

Are you the parent of a child receiving specialwith. Gwen has now been without her needed special
education services that is considering placing your childeducation services for over 6 months and we see
in a private program, for denial of a free appropriateregression in what she is able to do and communicate!
public education (FAPE)? Would you like to have aGwen has had several Early Intervention and private
sample letter that will help you in your advocacy? Thisevaluations where she was diagnosed with:
article will include a sample of a letter that will help youReceptive-Expressive Language Disorder, Severe
in your fight for an appropriate education for your child.developmental delays in several areas, Sensory
Mr. StoneIntegration Dysfunction, and fine motor difficulty. All of
Special Education Coordinatorthe evaluators agree that Gwen has several disabilities
Seagull School Districtand that she requires special education services to
1200 Rock Rd.benefit from her education! Also, a long list of
Seagreen Il. 60902recommendations was totally ignored by the school
Date: June 25, 20___district.
Dear Mr. Stone:In a recent US Supreme Court ruling the justices found
This letter is to notify you that we are placing ourthat: A reading of the Act that left parents without an
daughter Gwen (Date of Birth 06-02-20__) in aadequate remedy when a school district unreasonably
private school (called Hope Academy), and will befailed to identify a child with disabilities, would not
seeking reimbursement for the placement, due to thecomport with Congress's acknowledgment of the
fact that the school district is denying my child'sparamount importance of properly identifying each child
disability, and found her ineligible for special educationeligible for services.
services. This ineligibility is denying our daughter a freeBecause of this ruling my husband and I are eligible for
appropriate public education!reimbursement of private school expenses because
When Gwen was in Early Intervention we participatedour daughter is being denied FAPE, and because we
in all of the transition meetings. We made sure that thebelieve that Hope Academy is an appropriate
schools representative had copies of all of Gwen'splacement for her. We are enclosing information on the
evaluations, that had been done up to that point. AHope Academy with this letter.
domain meeting to discuss testing was held, which myPlease let us know if you would like to evaluate Gwen
husband and I participated in. We totally disagreed withbecause we would be happy to make her available to
the IEP team that Gwen did not need further testing toyou.
see if she was eligible for special education services.Bob and Sara Michaels
The IEP team then stated that Gwen was ineligible for123 Cullins St.
special education services; which we also disagreed