Sauvola & Associates, P.A., and Nicole Sauvola, Esquire can serve as an advocate for you and your special needs student during the IEP (Individual Education Planning Committee) evaluation and planning process. We help identify and prioritize your student's needs and explore options that best serve your student. We can help improve the total learning environment for your child. 

Ms. Sauvola has Special Needs Children of her own, for whom she has been advocating for the last 20 years.  Ms. Sauvola's son is a Reyes Syndrome survivor, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of this childhood illness at age 4 months.  She is familiar with the accommodations that must be made under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the assistance that the Public Schools are required to provide. 

Sauvola & Associates, P.A., and Nicole Sauvola, Esquire, is extremely familiar with the IDEA which mandates that Florida provide free and appropriate public education for all students with disabilities, because Florida receives Federal support for educating students with disabilities.

IDEA gives enforcement authority not only to the Federal and State Departments of Education, but also to individuals. Therefore, if a parent, youth advocate, or department of education worker finds that a detained or confined youth is not receiving adequate educational services, IDEA can be used to secure appropriate education for this youth. Previous studies emanating from litigation and professional literature in this area document the inadequate educational services received by youth in custody.  IDEA serves as an ideal tool to access educational services for youth with disabilities because it requires public schools and State-operated programs, such as juvenile correctional facilities, to provide each eligible child with adequate special education and related services.

 
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