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Using the guidelines from IDEA, testing is to be offered to children in their home language.
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Free education for all children even if their disability is a behavior. The beginning of understanding children beyond physical disabilities.
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Setting guidelines not allowing the school system to suspend children with IEP's for more than 10 days. Making the school system come up with ways to handle behaviors other than exclusion.
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Winkleman's represented themselves in court without legal representation. Initially they were denied because they did not have a lawyer, after an appeal process were granted reimbursement from the local school system for their son's private education after representing his rights as a "party aggrieved". They also opened doors for other parents to represent their children's rights for FAPE in federal court.
