SpedEx Consultation — A positive, innovative, and successful approach to build TRUST in special education disputes — whose time has more than come!

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA
2 min readMar 17, 2024

AMAZINGLY (to me, at least), the federal special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (the IDEA), does not mention TRUST. Instead of focusing on building TRUST between parents and schools regarding the educational needs of students with disabilities, the law focuses (too much, in my view) on procedures, parent rights, and school responsibilities.

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Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA, is a reformer, thought leader, lawyer, and author. Check out her book, Special Education 2.0 and her medicine bottle art!