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Terry Harmon

Keeping Up With Child Find: Best Practices for IDEA Compliance
Presented by Terry J. Harmon
Thursday | April 4, 2024 • 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET

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Child find has always been challenging, but now even more so. Many children are exhibiting post-pandemic learning loss and deficits in social-emotional skills, as well as presenting signs of anxiety, school refusal, and other mental health issues. When should students be referred for an IDEA evaluation? This webinar will offer a blueprint for compliance with the IDEA's child find mandate, taking into account today’s challenging landscape.

Attorney Terry Harmon will explain what the IDEA statute and regulations say about child find and eligibility, and provide examples of situations when the district's child find duty is triggered. You’ll learn best practices to identify potential disabilities, assess students with suspected disabilities, and determine a student's eligibility under the IDEA.

School and district staff will take away guidance and strategies to:

  • Recognize signs and characteristics of a potential disability that may trigger the district's IDEA child find duty
  • Identify the IDEA’s disability categories and understand how students may qualify under them
  • Apply lessons from case law to avoid common child find mistakes that may lead to IDEA due process or federal actions
  • Develop appropriate child find protocols to share with general and special education teachers and administrators
  • And more

About the Presenter

Terry J. Harmon, Esq., is a shareholder with Sniffen & Spellman, P.A. in Tallahassee, Florida. He is admitted to practice law in Florida and Tennessee.

Mr. Harmon is 1 of only 44 attorneys Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Education Law (as of January 2024) and has represented educational institutions before the Florida Department of Education; the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights; the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings; Florida State Circuit Courts; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida; and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Mr. Harmon devotes a substantial portion of his practice to providing assistance to public and private educational institutions (K-12 and postsecondary) in a wide array of legal matters. He has lectured at the national and state level on issues of importance impacting educational institutions including, but not limited to, special education/exceptional student education, Title IX, legal issues impacting school employees, bullying, and gender identity issues. Mr. Harmon is also a member of the Florida School Board Attorneys Association and The Florida Bar’s Education Law Committee.


Who Should Attend
  • School administrators
  • School attorneys
  • Special education directors
  • Section 504 coordinators
  • IEP team members
  • School nurses
  • School psychologists
  • Special education teachers
  • General education teachers
  • School employees involved in the IEP or IDEA referral process

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