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Schooling and Disabilities April 25, 2022
According to MJC partner and education attorney Tom Blessing: “One of the most common problems we see is that teachers and school staff simply haven’t been trained properly to work with kids with ...
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Education Law Attorney Tom Blessing on Zionsville Schools Mask Mandate July 29, 2021
The Zionsville school board just voted to require students to wear masks—again. Parents are understandably outraged at the latest example of draconian, arbitrary, oppressive, politically motivated ...
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Judge Rules Medicaid Age Limit for People with Autism Is Discriminatory July 1, 2021
State Residents Age 21+ with Autism Can Receive Medicaid Benefits for ABA Therapy Our very own attorney Tom Blessing recently achieved a significant victory on behalf of his son Connor and other adult ...
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Pandemic’s Impact on Students with Disabilities March 10, 2021
Special Needs Child Services in the Age of COVID-19 Over the past year, Attorney Tom Blessing received countless phone calls from parents of special needs students whose schools had closed, suspended ...
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Feds Investigate Indiana Schools’ Use of Virtual Learning for Special Education Students During Pandemic January 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched an investigation into reports that Indiana schools have not been complying with federal law in the provision of special ...
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Education Attorney, Tom Blessing, Represents Family December 15, 2020
In our August blog, “ Parents of Disabled Child Take Legal Action to Get Him Back in School,” we discussed Attorney Tom Blessing ’s case concerning a severely handicapped boy at Hamilton Southeastern ...
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