• Created an Change in Eligibility web page, to include that evaluations must be done before determining that the child is no longer a child with a disability.
• Updated our homepage and IDEA changes reauthorization statue.
• Updated the The IDEA web page, and the home page, with new information about vote and website links.
• Added a page key/index, and updated the title of the page,  to the Special Education laws Web page.
• Added these 5 definitions: Behavior Management Plan (BMP), DD - Development Disorder or Developmental Disabilities, DH -
  Developmentally Handicapped, IEP, and IFSP to our Definitions web page. Added Federal Regulation refer to FAPE.
• Added a page key/index, and new question on accessing student records (now #5, giving us a total of 13 questions), to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Web page.
• Reformatted the Evaluators web page and updated CEC address, to correct information and create a more professional look.
• Added what happens if your child is not found to be eligible for special education, to the Reviewing your IEP web page, moved the MCAS information to a separate web page.
• Updated the WISC-IV web page to include the meaning of the items in parentheses.
  
• Corrected Dr. Bonnie Singer address, on the Evaluators web page.
• Added our scheduled presentation to the Calendar 2004 - 2005 web page. 
  
• Added last years presentations to the Past Presentations web page. 

• Update Massachusetts Advocacy Center for Children (MAC) description and aberration (used to be MACC), Mass Organization web page. (Provide by J. Pino).
  
• Updated Reviewing your IEP web page, moved the MCAS information to a separate web page (see below).
• Created an MCAS web page to include MAC brochures (thanks to J. Pino).

• Updated our Calendar with changes to June dates.
• Updated Type of Tests web page, added TOPL social pragmatic test.
• Added 2 links to IEP Goal web page. A guide on IEP4U.com  "Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Proper IEP's (List 6 components of benchmarks list of keywords)  and link to website that has 4000+ free Goals and Objectives (IEP-ITP) each with changeable benchmarks in California format
• Updated our homepage with a photo for the summer, kids at the beach.
  
• Added Anxiety Disorders and 3 links to the Disabilities Links web page.
• Add another link to a sample of Accommodations, from the PACER organization to our Accommodations web page.
• Created new web page of Colleges for students with Learning Disabilities web page.
  
• Added link to Learning Prep website to our Specialized School web page.
• Added the text of the Federal and State law regarding Taping Your Team meetings web page.

• Updated and reformatted our PAC Accomplishments web page with 2002 - 2003 accomplishments and Anne W. created a more professional look.  (thanks to MT and CC for the updates).
  
• Added the DOE list of approved schools to our Specialized School web page.
  
• Updated the WISC-IV web page and add a diagram and list of all 15 subtests.
• Add the meaning of the Wrightslaw's SMART Goals to the IEP Goal web page.
• Updated our homepage and IDEA changes reauthorization statue.
• Updated our Calendar with changes to May dates.
• Updated an error to telephone number on School Consultant web page.
• Updated Type of Tests web page, DAR, a criterion reference test.
• Added the average wait to receive an evaluators report after testing (Lincoln Presentation and MassPAC January emails) to the Questions to ask an Evaluator.
• Added a link to the Reviewing your IEP, for the LD Teenage input form, for students to fill out, prior to their Team meeting. (Thanks to M.Diskin).
• Added Question and Answers about student responsibilities as a postsecondary student (Student going to attend college), Section 504 web page.
• Updated some of the CCHS special education personal degrees on the Who's Who page.
  
• Added No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to the Laws web page.
• Added a link to the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) from the Behavior Management Plan (BMP).
• Added the ABC of a Behavior Management Plan (BMP).
• Added Behaviorist to the Psychologist definition to the Doctor web page.
• Added HG to Lawyers web page.
• Added the tittle Massachusetts Special Education Regulations - 603 CMR 28.00, to our Time Factor web page.
• Updated WISC IV web page.
• Added the Social Thinking Therapy to our Therapy web page.
• Updated our Calendar web page, direct link to this month.
• Updated the The IDEA web page, and the home page, with new information about vote and website links.
• Updated Reviewing your IEP web page with more detail on IEP 1, IEP 2, and IEP 3.
  
• Added Executive Function Disorder to the links web page.
• Added several new links the Measurable Goals web page.
• Added an article to the What is IEP web page.
• Corrected the spelling on IQ chart (thanks to NancyKayK CC for the update).
• Added School Psychologist definition to the Doctor web page.
• Updated our members Recommend Evaluators web page with email from end of April.
• Updated Type of Tests web page, 3 new OT test and 1 on social pragmatics, added more detail to the index at the top of page.
  

• Added a new page IEP Team Members web page and added it to the homepage under IEP section. (Thanks to M.Diskin)
• Updated our homepage for spring time, add photo of Daffodils.
  
• Add the Apraxia Parent Group to the Local Support Groups web page.
• Added a page key/index of the months of the year, to the Calendar web page.
• Spilt the WISC III and WISC IV into two separate web pages and updated the the Type of Evaluations web page.
• Spilt the Behavior Management Plan (BMP) web page into two separate web pages, Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)  and Behavior Management Plan (BMP).
• Updated the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) with some sample questions and added a link to our sample Behavioral Management Plan. (thanks to SA and BM for the updates)
• Updated the link to the FBA and the IEE links on the Requesting Evaluation web page.
• Updated the Reviewing your IEP, added section heading on IEP 2 and IEP 3.
• Updated Type of Evaluations, to include FBA.
• Update the link on Timefactors web page for the DOE, Program Quality Assurance (PQA) memo, titled: Timelines for Issuing IEPs
• Update the index on the Type of Tests web page, making it more like a table of contents (thanks to SL for the suggestion).
• Updated the detail bell curve to load faster (Special thanks to Acton PAC chair, Steve Lowe)
• Updated the Therapy page, remove Communication Therapy Associates in Arlington.
• Updated the Massachusetts Organizations, and Local Support Organization web pages both  had an out-of-date link to PAC's in Mass. (Thanks to Debra Orr, Lincoln PAC webmaster, for reporting the problem.)
• Added the home button and fixed the pointer to mailbox icon to 10 other pages.
• Added the link to the Dead Man's Goal test, to the IEP Goals web page.
  
•  Updated the Getting Ready for Team Meeting web page, to include reviewing previous IEP  Goals and progress make from previous year.
• Added two new books the Books: Advocacy web page: Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids, by Ellen Braaten, Ph. D. and Gretchen Felopulos, Ph. D. and Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids, by Timothy E. Wilens.
• Added Touch Math to Specialized Education Methods web page.
  

• Added a new page Allergies and Treatments and updated the homepage under Test and evaluations. (Special thanks to our PAC members, Maria Tinglof). 
• Updated Type of Evaluations, added a "Note" about Central Auditory Processing (CAP) and Visual Processing, also know as short-term memory, and about the terms, "visual processing" and "visual perception", being used interchangeably.
• Updated the Reviewing your IEP, with the Spring 2003 updated "Requirements for the Participation of Students with Disabilities in MCAS", manual.
• Added the Classroom reading checks tests: DAR, QRI, Stanford Diagnostic to the Type of Tests web page.
• Added the definition of Neuropsychologist to the Doctor web page.
• Created new web page on WISC IV web page.
• Added the video "Misunderstood Minds: Understanding Kids Who Struggle to Learn" to the video web page.
  
• Added a second CAPD book "When the Brain Can't Hear : Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder" to our Recommended Books page and the CAPD web page.
• Updated our Calendar with new April dates.

• Added a link to the DOE Administrative Advisory SPED 2002-2:Requirement to Review Refusals to Evaluate for Special Education Eligibility on the  Requesting Evaluation web page.
• Update some spelling errors on the Pre-K-8 special education staff, Who's Who page.
• Added a Social Skill Assessments and Occupational Therapy (OT) Assessments to the Type of Tests web page.
• Added a page key/index to the Type of Tests web page.
• Updated the Reviewing your IEP, by adding the state SPED reg. regarding "Type of Personnel", and Federal regulation  about "Frequency and Duration/Per Cycle".
• Updated the homepage with change March workshop dates.
• Updated our Calendar with new March dates.
• updated our In The News web page with the latest memo from the DOE.  Indicated the three memos that are no longer available on the DOE website.
  
• Added the The Autism Support Center (ASC), located in Danvers to the Local Support Groups web page.
• Updated our Calendar with the Rescheduled dates.
• Added the on the Social Skill Assessments to the sample letters to Requesting Evaluation web page.
• Fix some of the tags on the key/index to the Type of Tests web page.
• Added "Number of Goals" in an IEP, to the Measurable IEP Goals web page.
• Updated our Frequency Asked Question web page, added all the links for more information.
• Updated Type of Evaluations, WPPSI-R age range is age 3 to 7-1/4 years.
• Added a three more Speech and language Assessments to the Type of Tests web page.
• Added a link to the Disabilities Links web page for The Bi-Polar Child, that has sample of IEP for Bi-polar child.
  
• Added a summary of the difference between IEP and a 504, and section dividers to the Section 504 web page.
• Added links from the Type of Evaluations, to the Type of Tests web page, for individual tests.

• Add the definition of a Modification (We now have both the definition of Accommodation and Modification.) to the Accommodations web page. 
  
• Add an article from Wrightslaw on advocating, Advocating for Your Child - Getting Started, to the Advocates web page.
• Updated "What law overrides, trumps or takes precedence over another?", (thanks to MassPAC member Cathy T.) .
• Added  page on Department of Education References manuals, memos, forms, contact information, etc.
  
• Updated the homepage with change of IEP workshop date.
• Added 2  schools to the School Specialized School web page.
• Updated our Calendar with 2nd Strategic Planning Meeting and Our PAC Business Meeting (Now an afternoon meeting)
• Added 3 PAC, Agawam, Amherst-Pelham, Murdoch Middle Charter School to the Massachusetts SPED PAC's On-line page.
• Update Pre-K-8 special education staff, Who's Who page with the state certification information from our SPED director.

December, 2003

• Updated the homepage with snowflake background and picture of watercolor of Cardinal on a tree branch created by Minuteman ARC Art club and added a link to the  Minuteman ARC order form for Holiday cards and Christmas wreaths.
• Added a Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP), under  Phonemic Awareness on the Type of Tests web page.
• Updated the presentation on our homepage, for January (no presentation scheduled for December).
• Updated our Calendar, added the Transitions planning starts at age 14, Co-Sponsored with Acton SPED PAC, January 20,
  Tuesday Date changed (was the 13th) for Our PAC Business Meeting.
• Updated our school's Who's Who web page, with the information from "CPS Student Services Support Staff for 2003-2004" (green sheet from Our PAC Welcomes Diana Rigby, Our  Administrator of Student Support Services, held on September 10, 2003.
• Updated the Specialize Education Methods web page, to include Landmarks two new writing guides, and two student workbooks.
• Add a new page References from Department of Education (DOE)
• Fixed the Yahoo button on the homepage, our PAC button was not working with Internet Explorer.
  

November, 2003

• Added a new web page, called Central Auditory Processing Deficit (CAPD) and added a link to this web page on Therapy web page.
• Added new CAPD links to the Disabilities Links web page, 3 links under CAPD.
• Added 1 CAPD books to our Recommended Books page.
• Updated the Amazon keyword search tool on both Recommended books web pages (Main and Disabilities Books web pages), the search now defaults to "book", and "go" image now is displaying correctly.
• Add a new section to Laws web page about precedence between Federal, State, and School.
• Updated the presentation on our homepage, for this month.
• Updated Bonnie Singer contact information on the Evaluators page , under Speech and Language Evaluations section.
• Fixed the Reading index, that given a quick access to all parts of reading, decoding (sounding out words), fluency (reading rate), comprehension (meaning) to Specialize Education Methods page.
• Update the Specialized Method page, to include the Wisnia-Kapp Reading Programs, Inc. (WKRP) method under both PA and reading heading (from Judith Wisnia).
• Add an article from Wrightslaw on advocating (Why advocate, types, what do advocates do, planning) to the Advocates and Educational Consultants web page.
  
• Update Massachusetts Advocacy Center for Children (MACC), contact information to the Mass Organization web  page.
• Update some of the spelling on the Parent Toolkit web page (thanks to my sister).
• Update the link to the  Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC) bottom of the School Specialized School web page.
• Added Telian Learning Concepts (TLC) and Wisnia-Kapp Reading Programs, Inc. (WKRP) to the Central Auditory Processing Deficit (CAPD) web page.
• Updated Audiologist description on the Types of evaluations web page.
  
• Updated contact information for Johanne Pino, Massachusetts Advocacy Center, on the  Requesting Evaluation Letter web page.

October, 2003

• Added a new web page, called Getting Ready for your Team meeting.  Added a link to it from our Parent Tool box web page.
• Updated our homepage, added a second button for the high school & beyond email list.  Updated IDEA reauthorization statue, updated the brief presentation dates and wording  (thanks to Christine).  
• Updated our Calendar - added the CCHS 2nd organizational meeting.
• Updated the description of the Discussion list - added information about the CCHS list, and spelling / grammar corrected, (thanks to Christine). 
• Fixed broken links to DOE Audit Reports.
• Added our Mental Health liaison, to PAC's Who's Who web page.  
• Added quote Diana used at her Welcome meeting to the Parent Toolkit page, and a link to the "Getting Ready" page.
• Update the Specialized Method page, to include the Telian method under both PA and reading heading and added a link to their website. (from N. Telian).
• Added that there is no "no Stay Put" with a Section 504.
• Fixed some book links that were not working.
• Added the national home schooling link, to bottom of the School Specialized School web page.
  

September, 2003

• Updated the State and Federal Special Education Laws web page, to include: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Federal law, regarding Qualified Personnel.  Added Procedural Safeguards: Subpart E—Procedural Safeguards and §300.504 Procedural safeguards notice.
• Updated the Tutors page, with Rich Mangano new training and email address.
• Updated the Time Factors page, with what the regulation states for the three year re-evaluation time factor.  That revaluation can occur sooner if necessary, 603 CMR 28.04(3).  (Thanks to M.Diskin)
• Updated our homepage, moving the Join button up on the page, to encourage members to join email list. Added our first presentation.  Changed our summer photo to a Back-to-School photo.
• Added a link to IDEA reauthorization.
• Added our new presentations to the Calendar 2003 - 2004 web page. 
  
• Added last years presentations to the Past Presentations web page. 
  
• Created the What New for Sept 2002 to August 2003, has 11 months of updates to our website.
• Updated the School Who's Who web page, from our first meeting handout with Diana Rigby.
• Added Metro CHADD new email address, and deleted AD-IN from Local Parent Support web page.
• Updated the Reviewing your IEP, and Time Factors page by rewording the signing of the IEP.
  
• Update our Calendar to reflect the three October presentations, added date, location and Directions to Belmont.
• Created the PAC Resource Library web page and added it to the homepage.

	Last updated August 12, 2004 By Melody Orfei
o.mel@verizon.net