Legal Rights of Children with Epilepsy in School & Child Care

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Epilepsy Foundation gratefully acknowledges the wonderful and tireless work of Leslie Seid Margolis in drafting this manual. A few limited portions of this manual were based in part on a comparable manual developed by the American Diabetes Association, “The Legal Rights of Students with Diabetes.” We thank the Association for allowing us to draw from this excellent resource. Author’s Acknowledgement I would like to thank the following Maryland Disability Law Center colleagues for their willingness to review and comment on chapters of this manual: Robert Berlow, Alyssa Fieo, Elizabeth Fischer, Patricia Halle, Lauren Kallins, Ileana Luciani, and Lauren Young. I am grateful for their assistance, and the manual is stronger as a result. I am also grateful to Gary Gross for his invaluable editing skills. Although I take full responsibility for any sins of commission or omission, this manual represents, in many ways, a team effort, and I thank the Epilepsy Foundation for making the production of this manual possible. Leslie Seid Margolis xiii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leslie Seid Margolis is a managing attorney at the Maryland Disability Law Center (MDLC), Maryland’s protection and advocacy agency, where she has worked since 1985. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where she received an A.B. degree in comparative literature. She obtained her J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. In her practice at MDLC she handles individual special education cases and systemic litigation, and engages in special education policy work at the state and national levels. Ms. Margolis is a frequent presenter at local, state, and national trainings and conferences, and she has contributed a number of special education technical assistance documents to the protection and advocacy network. In addition to her professional background in disability and legal issues, Ms. Margolis has a great deal of practical experience as the parent of a fourteen-year-old daughter with lissencephaly, a rare brain development disorder that includes intractable seizures. xiv
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APPENDIX A: CHILD CARE SEIZURE DISO
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