Live Webinar | Ensuring a free appropriate public education (FAPE): Lessons from the due process hearing front
Includes a Live Web Event on 07/29/2026 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
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Dr. Mitch Yell is a tier-two State Review Officer in South Carolina. In this capacity, Dr. Yell reviews due process hearings. A couple of important conclusions from his review of hearings are that (a) the majority of hearings involve questions of free appropriate public education (FAPE), and (b) most FAPE issues involve procedural error, substantive errors, implementation errors, or a combination of those. In this presentation, Dr. Yell will examine these errors and how administrators and teachers can avoid them.
Dr. Mitchell Yell
Professor in Special Education
University of South Carolina
Mitchell L. Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and a Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Minnesota. His professional interests include special education law, IEP development, progress monitoring, and parent involvement in special education. Dr. Yell has published 132 journal articles, 6 textbooks, 36 book chapters, and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. His textbook, Special Education and the Law, is in its 5th edition. He also had been awarded almost $16 million in grants. Dr. Yell also serves as a State-level due process review officer in South Carolina. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 14 years.