During the last three years there has been a significant decline in requests by parents for assistance with special education related issues.  This change in requests for assistance is due in part to Covid caused instructional interruptions, which resulted in significant, across the board learning shortcomings for all students, and subsequent increased multi-tier intervention by schools. A second reason for a decrease in requests for assistance by parents of primary school age children is the fuller implementation by school districts of intervention required under the Ohio Third Grade Reading Guarantee. Consequently, the Millwood Group services that are now available to parents have been significantly adjusted. Following are the new parameters for our services:

- Assistance will be provided for parents who are new to the Millwood Group only in those few situations in which it is determined that there is an extreme need and for which assistance cannot otherwise be obtained. Only limited, no-charge, phone consultation will be available.

- Follow-up assistance for former clients will continue to be available. In general, services for former clients will be limited to the no-charge phone support that has always been available to clients.

The effective date for the above changes is January 1, 2023.