Lanterman Act
What’s Left of Lanterman After the Cuts?
This summer was a tough as I have ever seen it in special education. Districts and Regional Centers were reeling from the fall out of the budget. The question seemed to be “Where to cut when we have already cut so much and we never had enough to start with.”
Among a hierarchy of concerns, one at the top of the list was how to deal with changes in the Lanterman Act that govern the provision of behavioral services, the most troubling of which were provisions requiring regional centers to use the least costly of comparable vendors to provide a ABA services (§ 4648, new subd. (a)(6)(D)); and disallowing Regional Center to pay for educational services. §4648.5(a)(3)
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Bonnie Z Yates
Bonnie Yates is an attorney with over 25 years of experience. In 1994, when her second child was diagnosed with autism, Ms. Yates focused her legal practice exclusively on special education to help her son obtain the educational services he needed. Ms. Yates and her team of lawyers have helped hundreds of children obtain vital educational services.
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