Hello, I am Diane Miller, the Special Education Editor. I appreciate your interest in the special education newsletter. This is a free, weekly publication with information intended to help guide you through the maze of special education.

I am the parent of a child diagnosed with learning disabilities. I have spent over ten years navigating my way through the confusing world of special education without the benefit of a map to guide me. Needless to say, there have been a lot of wrong turns along the way.

As a result, I have learned a lot about the Special Education system. It has been a long and frustrating journey. Even though I have made enormous improvements for my son I can’t help but think; if I had known then what I know now, it would have saved us so much blood, sweat and tears along the way. I know that over the years, he has suffered academically and emotionally because he wasn’t properly receiving the services that he needed. As a result, each year we are forced to try and build on top of a weak academic foundation. Sometimes I get frustrated with things that happened over the years and ask myself why. Why did we have to go through so much for so long?

This is my answer: If I can take what I learned and use it to help someone else; If it smoothes a couple of bumps along the way for one child, then I know our journey had a purpose. My goal for this site is to give you that short cut on your journey.

This newsletter is another tool that I hope you will find helpful. It will provide links to helpful articles, books and other tools that I found especially helpful.

I believe in the special education system but, like anything, it is only as strong as it’s weakest link. With a little bit of knowledge and understanding you can fix those links and allow special education to work for your child.

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Good luck on your journey, and always know that you do make a difference in the life of your child.