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Sending this out as a reminder that public comments on the proposed IDEA Part B regulations are due July 28, so please take a look at the proposals and send in any comments you may have!

On Tuesday May 13, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that will supplement the IDEA Part B final regulations was published in the Federal Register.  The Supplemental NPRM is available for comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal or vial postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery.  Comments by fax or by email will not be accepted.  Comments are due by July 28, 2008. 

The NPRM addresses such issues as revocation of parental consent to provision of special education services (unilateral withdrawal of parental consent to continued services) as well as parents' use of non-attorney advocates at due process hearings.  As these are important issues to the parent community, we encourage you to take a look at the Department of Education's proposed regulations and submit comments.

You can find the NPRM as follows:
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/proprule/2008-2/051308a.pdf
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California Special Education Programs
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http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/ds/documents/colordrfrm.doc
Are you a parent of a child with social communication difficulties?
Dr. Hallmayer at Stanford University is conducting a research study to examine how children with social communication difficulties communicate emotions such as sadness and anxiety and whether there is a genetic predisposition to having these symptoms

Who Can Participate?
Boys between the ages of 8 and 19 with or without a diagnosis who: *have social communication difficulties, as seen in Asperger’s disorder, Autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD).

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Mina Hah at (650) 724-5724 or mhah@stanford.edu

For further information regarding your rights as a participant, please call (650) 723-5244 or write the Administrative Panel on Human Subjects in Medical Research, Administrative Panels Office, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5401

IDEA Federal Regulations
On October 30, 2007 The Department of Education published a correction to final regulations issued on August 14, 2006 for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, which inadvertently included minor technical errors.
Oct07 Corrected Regs (MS Word Version, 144 pages, 931 KB)
Oct07 Corrected Regs (PDF Version, 144 pages, 639 KB)