Terms, privacy and scope

Dangon Help explains what the special education regulations say and helps you put requests in writing. That is publishing, not representation. Using this site does not create a lawyer–client relationship, nobody here is acting as your attorney or your advocate, and nothing on it is advice about your particular child or your particular dispute.

Decisions about your child’s education — whether to request an evaluation, whether to sign an IEP, whether to file a complaint — are yours. If you want someone to look at your situation specifically, a Parent Training and Information Center will do it free, and an education attorney will do it properly.

Everything here is built on two US federal laws — the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act — and on US state education rules. It does not describe the law of any other country, and the concepts do not transfer even where the vocabulary looks similar.

Nothing. There is nowhere for it to go.

This site has no backend, no database and no analytics. Your child’s IEP is opened by a PDF engine running inside your own browser; it is never transmitted, because there is no server to transmit it to. The same is true of everything you type into the letter builder, the meeting agenda and every other tool. Load the page, disconnect from the internet, and it all still works — which is the plainest demonstration of the claim.

The one thing stored on your device is a single preference recording whether you chose the light or dark theme. Nothing you enter is written to storage, so closing the tab discards it. Save, copy or print anything you want to keep before you leave.

We do not set advertising cookies, we do not build a profile of you, and we do not know that you visited. If that ever changes this page changes first, and the change will be described here in the same plain terms.

Every legal statement links to its source — usually eCFR, the US government’s own published copy of the federal regulations — so you can read the rule rather than take our word for it. State evaluation timelines carry the date each was last checked against the statute it cites; the current set was checked on 2026-08-27.

Where a state’s own timeline has not been verified, the site says so and shows the federal default instead of guessing. Regulations change, states amend their rules, and a page that was right last year can be wrong today. Confirm anything you are about to act on, particularly a deadline.

School-day calculations are estimates. This site cannot see your district’s calendar and does not try to; it counts the closed days you tell it about. Ask your district for its own calculated date in writing and compare.

Found an error? Please report it — a wrong citation here is worse than no citation, and corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send us.

The IEP check reads the text of a document and reports which required sections it can find and which phrases weaken what is promised. It cannot know your child. It cannot tell you whether a plan is appropriate, whether services are sufficient, or whether an evaluation was correct — those need a person, and a tool implying otherwise would send families into meetings with false confidence.

Findings are deliberately phrased as questions to ask. A section reported as “not found” may be present under a heading the tool does not recognise, and a document with nothing flagged may still be a poor plan.

The site is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement. We do not warrant that it is error-free, current, or uninterrupted.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Dangon is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss arising out of your use of or reliance on this site — including a missed deadline, an unfavourable outcome, or a decision made on information found here. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, in which case they apply only as far as that jurisdiction permits.

The site links to government sources, to Parent Training and Information Centers, and to the national centre on special education dispute resolution. Those are independent organisations. We link to them because they are free, federally funded and genuinely useful, not because we have any relationship with them, and we are not responsible for what they publish.

Everything on this site is free to use, with no account, no trial and no paid tier. You may print anything here, take it into a meeting, and share it with another family. You may not present it as your own or as legal advice from anyone.

This page is updated when the site changes. The substance — no uploads, no accounts, no charge, every claim cited — is the point of the project rather than a current policy setting, and is not expected to change.