Demand For Speech Therapists Versus Availability Causing Crisis For The Florida Schools by Patricia Hawke - ArticleCity.com
With the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, schools across the nation are now required to offer services that were before considered a luxury for students with disabilities. One such service is for speech and language therapy.

In a memorandum to all Florida schools� special education directors, Chief of Exceptional Education Bambi Lockman wrote that federal officials found that the Florida schools had �failed to provide speech and language-related services to children with disabilities� post by haiyan701. She further noted that the officials stated that these services were necessary as outlined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, without which the children could not fully benefit from their special education.

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