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Cover card on a dark plum ground with a thin hairline frame, the wordmark The Parent Edge, the kicker From a need to a line in the IEP in clay-rose, the title The One-on-One Aide, Decoded in large serif type, the italic subtitle When a child needs one, how the team decides, and what has to be in the IEP, and a clay-rose foot button reading Instant Digital Download.

IEP Process

The One-on-One Aide, Decoded

When a child needs one, how the team decides, and what has to be in the IEP

$24

56 pages · 5 worksheets · 7 checklists · Instant PDF

Backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

What’s inside

  • 7 checklists, from What you already hold to The next thirty days
  • 5 fill-in worksheets: the need by setting and time of day, the incident and support log, the district's answer mapped onto the notice, the support statement builder, and the skills the adult covers now
  • A blank one-page request letter you fill in yourself, asking for the meeting, the record, and the written answer
  • 8 figures, including which route the need takes, a reason and a factor, what a support statement has to answer, and the same hinge in IDEA and Section 504
  • Ten states, verified: who the aide is, who trains and supervises, and what your state calls the support, in one table (California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington)
  • Ten states' consent and objection rules, so you know whether a district can change the support without you
  • New York's nine questions a committee must weigh before recommending an aide, borrowed as questions for any table
  • A dated thirty-day plan

About this guide

Someone said ask for a one-on-one, and the school said we do not do one-on-ones. Nobody explained what the support is called, whether your child is entitled to it, what you have to show, or what the IEP has to say for it to be real. This guide explains all four the way a good advocate would on the phone: steady, specific, and in order.

No federal rule names a one-on-one aide. An aide is one form of supplementary aids and services, and when the IEP team decides your child needs it, the IEP must state the support with its frequency, location, and duration. That is the whole spine of this guide. It shows you which kind of adult a need calls for (instructional support, a health task, a behavior plan first, or a device), how to build the dated record the team must consider, how to ask in writing so the answer has to come in writing, how the team actually decides (the regular-class rule, the Department's own sentence that placement decisions do not rest on availability of staff or space, and how the courts have framed the question), what a refusal must say, why an aide is not a placement, who the adult is under your state's rules, and how the support is reviewed and grown into independence. Every timeline, right, and requirement carries its citation in the sentence where you read it, at the paragraph level, so you can check each one yourself.

Who it is for: a parent, usually a mother, of a school-age child with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or a 504 plan who is unsafe, eloping, or lost in a new classroom without adult support, or whose aide has been reduced, reassigned, or never hired. Your alternative is an educational advocate at 100 to 300 dollars an hour. This guide costs less than a quarter of one of those hours.

56 pages, US Letter, instant digital download (PDF). Print the worksheets and the letter as many times as you need.

Before you buy

When do I get it?

The download link appears the moment checkout completes, and the same link is emailed to you, so you have a copy either way.

What do I need to open it?

One PDF, 56 pages, 5 worksheets, 7 checklists. Any free PDF reader opens it on a phone, tablet, or computer, and it is laid out for standard US Letter paper if you would rather print it.

Are the letters and worksheets fillable?

The letter templates use bracketed fields you replace with your own details, and the worksheets are built to be printed and filled in by hand. If you would rather stay on screen, most PDF apps, including the free readers, let you type anywhere on a page with their comment or fill and sign tools.

Will this work in my state?

Federal law is the backbone of every guide, and it applies in every state. Where states are allowed to differ, the guide says so plainly, and a state number appears only when it has been verified against that state's own rules, with the citation printed beside it. Every guide is date-stamped with its version and review date, so you can see how current it is.

What if it is not what I needed?

Every guide is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Email [email protected] within 30 days of buying and you get a full refund. The full guarantee explains how it works.

How was this guide made?

Various tools, including AI tools, were utilized by the shop owner to help in research and the creation of this guide.

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How to ask for a one-on-one aide in your child's IEP

No federal rule names a one-on-one aide, so the request runs on a different vocabulary. Here is the category the support belongs to, what the IEP has to say for it to be real, and the two answers a written request can get.

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