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by Pam Wright and Pete Wright
Section One: Getting Started
- Basic advocacy skills
- Supplies you need to get started
- How to develop a master plan for your child’s education
Section Two: Advocacy 101
- Schools as bureaucracies and the rules of the game
- Obstacles to success – school culture, myths, gatekeepers, and emotions
- Common causes of conflict
- Steps you can take to prevent or resolve problems
- Events that trigger parent-school crises
Section Three: The Parent as Expert
- Why you must become an expert about your child’s disability and educational needs
- How to organize your child’s file, step by step
- How to use information from evaluations to understand your child’s disability
- How to use test scores to monitor and measure your child’s progress
- How to write SMART IEP goals and objectives
Section Four: Special Education Law
- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004)
- Findings and purposes of the IDEA
- Definitions in the IDEA
- Extended school year (ESY), child find, least restrictive environment (LRE), private placements, statewide assessments
- Requirements for identifying children with specific learning disabilities – Discrepancy Formulas and Response to Intervention (RTI)
- Evaluations, eligibility, IEPs, and placement
- Prior written notice, procedural safeguards, mediation, due process hearings, appeals, discipline, and age of majority
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
- The No Child Left Behind Act and implications for children with disabilities
Section Five: Tactics and Strategies
- “The Rules of Adverse Assumptions”; first impressions; image and presentation
- How to use logs, calendars, and journals to create paper trails
- How to write effective letters (includes sample letters)
- How to write a persuasive “Letter to the Stranger” (includes sample letters)
- How to use IEP worksheets, parent agendas, visual aids & graphs of progress or lack of progress (includes sample worksheets and agendas)
- Roles of experts; how to use an expert to help develop an appropriate educational program
- Pros and cons of recording meetings; strategies
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