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A Year in Review: Key Special Education Updates
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Description
Join Attorney Dan Heffernan for a walk-through of important special education developments from 2025. We will highlight significant decisions, regulations and legislation in the past year and address important trends as well as special education law issues that loom on the horizon.
Presenter:
Daniel Heffernan, Esq., Kotin, Crabtree, & Strong
Daniel T.S. Heffernan is a partner with Kotin, Crabtree & Strong and concentrates his practice on representing families of children with special needs in special education and civil rights matters. From 1995 to 2015 he served on the board of directors of FFCSN and was board president from 1995 to 2007. He received the 2014 President’s Award from the Federation for Children with Special Needs. He was one of the honorees at the 2023 Federation for Children with Special Needs’ 49th Anniversary Gala, “HONORING GIANTS ALONG THE WAY” the trailblazing giants who founded, built, and grew the Federation for Children with Special Needs. as one of In 2002, he and his wife, Julie, received the Dr. Allen C. Crocker Award for Excellence from the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. Mr. Heffernan has been named a Super Lawyer in special education law every year since 2005 and was named as a Top Rated Lawyer in Education by The Boston Globe. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the president of the board of directors of Community Legal Services and Counseling Center. He also serves on the MDSC Education Task Force. He has two daughters and a son with Down Syndrome.