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ADHD Weekly -- Section 504: What to Do When Your Child’s School Doesn’t Follow the Plan

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Educational plans are supposed to help students become better learners, but educators aren’t always aware of the accommodations within them. It can be up to parents to share the information educators need. Learn what you can do at bit.ly/NRC504PlanWatToDo

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This is a really good article. I wish I'd had these resources when my son was a child. His school would not follow his 504 and told me that 504 is not enforceable, that if I insisted that my son needed accommodations he must have an IEP instead. Which is what we ended up doing.

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