For questions and suggestions on improvement, please contact Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, sidebotham@rothgerber.com.

I would like to thank the following people for their invaluable assistance and the information they gave on the Special Education chapter, including, in many cases, reading over the draft for errors. There is not space to thank everyone I spoke to while pursuing resources, but I am grateful to all of them. Any mistakes, legal and practical, are mine alone.

• The Honorable Barbara Bosley and her law clerk Kristin Marburg, from the Denver Juvenile Court;
• Brad Bittan, juvenile law attorney;
• Mary Griffin from the Child Welfare Office of the Department of Human Services;
• Colleen Head, CDHS-Division for Developmental Disabilities;
• Keith Kirchubel from the Colorado Department of Education on the subject of educational surrogate parents;
• Thom Miller and Randy Parcel from the Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People for advice, research, and resources;
• Ed Rodgers and Sherri Piccione from the Office of the Guardian Ad Litem in Colorado Springs for resources, suggestions and corrections, and the forms developed by their office;
• Shari Shink from the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center;
• Barb Taylor, Division of Youth Corrections, for interviewing and making corrections to the draft;
• Maureen Wirth from the Colorado Department of Education on the subject of out of district children;
• Wendy Armstrong, Exceptional Student Leadership Unit, Colorado Department of Education; and
• Laura Writebol from the Colorado Department of Human Services on education and child welfare.