Dedicated to obtaining appropriate educational services for students with special needs throughout Pennsylvania.
Our education lawyers represent students who receive a variety of special education services, including students with learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, speech and language impairments, intellectual disability, emotional, physical and developmental disabilities, behavioral concerns and giftedness.
Our education lawyers have nearly 40 years of collective experience in special education law and can approach your legal issues with this extensive knowledge and with the unique perspective that comes from our prior representation of school districts across Pennsylvania.
What we do
According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (“IDEA”), all students with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education (“FAPE”). In Pennsylvania, this right to FAPE also extends to gifted students.
However, the laws pertaining to special education students are complex, and successfully navigating the special education process can be difficult and overwhelming for parents. Our special education attorneys are here to guide and inform you about your child’s rights within the education system and to develop effective, practical and creative solutions to your legal concerns.
Our team of professional and accomplished education lawyers can assist families of students with special needs in a wide range of matters, including:
The evaluation and determination of your child’s eligibility for early intervention and school-age special education services, gifted programming or services under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Representation in special education due process hearings, as well as state and federal court proceedings
Review of multidisciplinary evaluations, IEPs, GIEPs, and Section 504 Service Agreements
Attending multidisciplinary team meetings and IEP meetings
School disciplinary proceedings, including expulsions and manifestation determination meetings
Discrimination claims under Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”)
Download our brochure for more information about The Education Lawyers.
Our Special Education Lawyers in Pennsylvania
Jacobson & John attorneys are available to meet with you in Doylestown, Scranton, Reading, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, PA.
The firm’s special education lawyers represent families in school districts throughout eastern Pennsylvania. The following counties represent most of our cases in the eastern part of the state, however, we can and do go beyond these counties on a case by case basis: Adams County, Berks County, Bradford County, Bucks County, Carbon County, Chester County, Clinton County, Columbia County, Cumberland County, Dauphin County, Delaware County, Franklin County, Juniata County, Mifflin County, Perry County, Philadelphia County, Wayne County, Wyoming County, York County.
Jacobson & John LLP, the education lawyers located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, focuses on the representation of children with special needs and their families in education and related matters.
