William Poulos Law
Special Education Law Attorney
All children with special needs have the right to a free and appropriate education. Unfortunately, receiving a free and appropriate education may be a struggle. At William Poulos, we work with the laws concerning students, schools, child protective services, and parents. This can be complex, but we can help you navigate the labyrinth of special education law.
Our firm has been successful in assisting families place their children in special education school district programs and therapeutic private school programs that can serve the needs of special education students, at the expense of the district. Moreover, we can help you try to obtain attorneys’ fees when we have been successful in litigation.
Our experienced lawyers have worked with families and their children over a wide range of educational and emotional disorders, including, but not limited to:
- Autistic spectrum disorders
- Dyslexia and other reading disorders
- Speech and language disorders
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD and ADHD)
- Processing disorders
- Emotional disorders
- Physical disorders
- Pervasive Development Disorder –
Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) - Asperger’s syndrome
- Developmental disorders
- Learning disabilities
- Vision and sight disabilities
- Behavioral disorders
- Mental retardation
- Head and brain injuries
- Mutism and selective mutism
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- School phobia
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Other issues
Our past experience allows us to work in a cooperative approach with school districts. Exploring all options, our goal is the placement of special needs children in therapeutic or special education schools at the expense of local districts. While we fight to protect and assert children’s rights to access to an appropriate education, we can also help you with all other legal concerns tied to special education law.
Austic Disorders
Vision / Sight
Learning Disabilities
We asked William Poulos to help place our special needs child and we were very pleased with the result.
Amy B.
Poupos took care in guiding us through the maze of special education law.
Mike Wallace
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William Poulos is a highly noted attorney specializing in Special Education Law. I get asked this question almost every day. Most lawyers have a quick, buzz-word answer: “family law,” “criminal,” “medical malpractice defense,” “corporate.” I don’t. My answer is that I’m a problem-solving attorney who strongly resists being pigeonholed. More…
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This is Attorney Advertising. The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. You should consult an attorney for advice regarding your individual situation. We invite you to contact us and welcome your calls, letters and electronic mail. Contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send any confidential information to us until such time as an attorney-client relationship has been established. Discussion of results in other cases is not a guarantee of any future results.