Discipline
and Students with Disabilities:
Key Concepts and Strategies for Advocates
Conducted March 19, 2009
Presenter
Catherine
A. Holahan, Esq.
Catherine Holahan, Esq.
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Catherine
A. Holahan, Esq., is an attorney with Connecticut
Legal Services, Inc. In this position, she advocates
through individual legal representation and systemic
advocacy on behalf of low-income families with children
with disabilities to gain access to special education
and behavioral health services. Her experience includes
representing individual clients in state and federal
court, expulsion hearings, special education due
process hearings, mediations and complaints, and
systemic advocacy through legislative advocacy, class
litigation, outreach and education. Attorney Holahan
developed the CLS Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Project in Waterbury which focuses on providing civil
legal representation to students with disabilities
who are subject to school-based arrests or court
referrals and school discipline for disability-related
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Attorney Holahan received a J.D. with honors from
the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2001
and an M.S.W. in Policy and Planning from the University
of Connecticut School of Social Work in 2000. She earned
a B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1994. Attorney
Holahan is admitted to the Connecticut State Bar, the
Federal District of Connecticut and the Second Circuit
Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Connecticut
Bar Association Education and Federal Practice Sections.
Prior to joining CLS, Attorney Holahan served as a
law clerk in the Connecticut Appellate Court to the
Honorable Ellen Ash Peters, Chief Justice Retired.
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