Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP
123 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19109
(215)772-7296
http://www.mmwr.com
Founded more than 90 years ago and headquartered in downtown
Philadelphia, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
is a full-service law firm. Its scope and depth of practice
have expanded to meet the growing demands of its clients. With
satellite offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Cherry Hill, New
Jersey, and Berwyn and West Chester, Pennsylvania, the firm
enjoys a strong regional presence and has an established national
practice. Montgomery McCracken's Special Education Law Practice
is committed to protecting the rights of special needs children.
We help parents through the complex IEP development process.
Our attorneys are personally and professionally experienced
with the special education process. We understand that it is
best when parents can work with school districts amicably,
and we are committed to helping protect children's rights without
resort to adversarial proceedings. In addition, our skilled
attorneys can advocate for children and their parents at due
process hearings and in litigation.
For more information,
please contact the Special Education Law Practice
co-chairs Catherine Merino Reisman at 215-772-7296, creisman@mmwr.com or Amelia Carolla at 856-488-7718, acarolla@mmwr.com.
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Exhibitors at a COPAA sponsored event do not represent an endorsement
by COPAA, nor is it testimony by COPAA as to the quality of
the product exhibited or the validity of the exhibitor’s
claims.
Table #1
Carlton Palms Educational Center
28308 Churchhill
Smith Lane
Mt. Dora, FL 32757
(352) 735-0588
www.advoserv.com
AdvoServ provides residential, educational, and habilitation
services and intensive behavioral treatment for children, adolescents
and adults with developmental disabilities and challenging behavior.
Residential school programs are located in Florida and Delaware
and adult programs in New Jersey.
Table #2
American Diabetes Association
1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
(800) 676-4065
www.diabetes.org
The American Diabetes Association, the nation’s leading
diabetes voluntary health organization, advocates on behalf
of children with diabetes in school. For more information call
the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383)
or visit us www.diabetes.org
Table #3
Stevens Treatment Programs
24 Main Street
Swansea, MA 02777
(508) 679-1950
http://www.stevenshome.org/main.html
Stevens Treatment Programs provides a comprehensive continuum
of highly specialized services to adolescent males, ages 12-17,
with sexually acting
out, fire setting, or behavioral and emotional issues, in a highly
structured, safe and nurturing setting.
Table #4
MetDESK
MetLife's Division of Estate Planning for Special Kids
(732) 893-3284
www.metlife.com/desk
MetDESK®,
MetLife’s Division
of Estate Planning for Special Kids
is an organization dedicated to helping families secure both
lifetime care and quality of life for their children or other
dependents with special needs.
MetDESK’s mission is to help families plan for the future
of their children or other dependents with special needs, including
preserving government benefits and providing insurance and other
financial solutions which can help provide lifetime quality care.
The planning process begins with a complete review of your dependent’s
needs, future care plans, assessing of government benefit eligibility,
and finally a review of your family’s current financial
and legal plans.
Table #5
The Devereux Glenholme School
81 Sabbaday Lane
Washington, CT 06793
(860) 868-7377
www.devereux.org
Devereux is a non-profit organization providing services around
the nation for persons with emotional, developmental & educational
disabilities.
The Devereux mission is to provide the highest-quality
services to children, adults, and families with special needs,
which derive from behavioral, psychological, intellectual or
neurological impairments. Services will be provided in a caring
and humane way to foster human potential and to contribute to
the person's health, social, psychological, and educational well
being. Our programs will be of such excellence that they may
become models for this and other nations.
Table #6
Learning Rights Law Center
205 S. Broadway
Suite 1008
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 489-4033
http://www.learningrights.org/
The Mission of Learning Rights is to ensure students
have equitable access to the public education system. To
further this mission Learning Rights is focusing their efforts
on the following low-income students in the K-12 system:
- Students at risk of or involved in the child
welfare and/or juvenile justice systems;
- Students with learning disabilities and/or learning
difficulties;
- Students not accessing the public school system
because of language, disability, sexual orientation, gender
identity,
homelessness or inadequate facilities.
Table #7
F.L. Chamberlain School
P.O. Box 778
1 Pleasant Street
Middleboro, MA 02364
(508) 947-1593
http://www.chamberlainschool.org/
F.L. Chamberlain School is a co-ed, private, non-profit clinically
intensive therapeutic boarding school, ages 11-20. Life shills
through college prep curriculums. Diagnosis include: ADHD, NVLD,
LD, Aspergers, OCD, Mood disorder, anxiety, depression, PTSD,
and ODD.
Table #8
All Star Media
9740 Camo Road
PMB# 118
Spring Valley, CA 91977
(619) 723-8893
www.allstartapes.com
Email: allstartapes@hotmail.com
All Star Media is taping COPAA’s Conference sessions. CD’s
will be available to order at table #8. If you missed a break
out session that you would like to review, or share with family,
friends, and colleagues, come place an order.
Table #9
Ability Magazine
8941 Atlanta Ave.
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
(949) 854-8700
www.abilitymagazine.com
ABILITY Magazine is a bimonthly featuring
celebrity interviews with emphasis on health and disABILITY
issues. News and resources related to assistance.
Table #10
College Living Experience
800-370-5148
www.cleinc.net
CLE, College Living Experience, is program designed to help
students with learning disabilities transition into a life
full of opportunity, independence and success. It’s the
only program of its kind! We help parents and students realize
that going to college and living independently is possible.
CLE is there for those with learning disabilities and prepares
them for a life full of success.
Table #11
Take- One
Please stop by and pick up resource information.
Table #12
Special Needs Project
324 State St. #H
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 962-8087
www.SpecialNeeds.com
Special Needs Project is COPAA’s exclusive book vendor
offering books and DVD’s for sale at the conference.
Come visit table #12 and take home valuable resources. Special
Needs Project carries the best books and DVDs available on
a wide variety of disabilities. Our on-line catalog offers
over 3000 titles about mental, physical and emotional disabilities.
