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The Special Ed Advocate newsletter is free - please forward this issue or the subscription link to your friends and colleagues so they can learn about special education law and advocacy too. We appreciate your help! Planning
for the new year? Learn how you can start
a FETA Study Group. 1. Advocating for Your Child - Getting Started
Good special education services are intensive and expensive. Resources
are limited. If you have a child with special educational needs, you
may wind up battling the school district for the services your child
needs. To prevail, you need information, skills, and tools. 2. Advocacy 101: Documents, Records & Paper Trails Good
records are essential to effective advocacy. You
can use simple low-tech tools to record your contacts with the school:
calendars, logs, journals. Write letters to clarify events and what you were told. When you train yourself to write things down, you are taking important steps to protect your child's interests. If you
have a dispute with the school, your logs and letters are independent
evidence that support your memory. Documents that support your position
will help you resolve disputes early. 3. Free Shipping & Discounts - Summer Sale Ends Friday, August 15!
To make Back to School a little easier, you will find good deals,
great deals and super deals during our Summer
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When you order the deluxe edition of Wrightslaw: Special Education Law with the Special Education Law CD ROM (retail: $39.95) and Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy (retail: $29.95), you save $14.95 ($10.00 on the books and free shipping). Internet
Orders: https://www.wrightslaw.com/store/index.html 4. Tactics & Strategy: How to Disagree with the IEP Team . . . Without Starting WW III Pete answers questions about IEPs and teaches you how to disagree with the IEP team without starting World War III. Learn about the Rules of Adverse Assumptions, how to use tape recording and thank you letters to clarify issues, and how to deal with an IEP team bully. Read How to Disagree with the IEP Team at - https://www.wrightslaw.com/advoc/articles/strategy.disagree.htm 5. Hot Links! Resource Directories & Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities Suzanne writes, "I made a link to our state Yellow Page on the Fetaweb.com site for two reasons: your Yellow Pages are far more complete than anything I could easily build and I know you keep these pages up to date." Suzanne is right! Do you collect information for a website about special education or children with special educational needs? Are you looking for information and resources for parents, teachers or advocates for children with disabilities? If the answer is "yes", please check our Resource Directories and State Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities on Fetaweb. Resource Directories & Yellow Pages Directory of Disabilities Organizations & Groups: http://www.fetaweb.com/help/disabilities_orgs.htm Directory of Legal & Advocacy Resources: http://www.fetaweb.com/help/legal_advocacy.htm Directory of State Departments of Education: http://www.fetaweb.com/help/seas.htm Directory of Parent Training Information Centers: http://www.fetaweb.com/help/ptis.htm Directory of Best School Websites: http://www.fetaweb.com/best.htm Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities: http://www.fetaweb.com/help/states.htm (31 states down, 25 states and territories to go) Do you
need to find an educational consultant, advocate or attorney who represents
children with disabilities? Read Help!
How to Find an Educational Consultant, Advocate, Attorney
at: 7. Wrightslaw Advocacy Training in Richmond, VA - September 16, 2002 Parents of children with disabilities encounter many obstacles when they advocate for their children. Two obstacles are isolation and lack of information. We are working to remove these obstacles. On September 16, we will present a full day of advocacy training where you will learn about:
For
information about programs over the next few months, please check
our Seminars
& Training page: https://www.wrightslaw.com/speak/index.htm 8. CLE: Special Education Practice in Virginia - August 22, 2002 On August 22, 2002, the Virginia Legal Advocacy Center will offer its special education CLE, Special Education Practice in Virginia, in Richmond: http://www.virginialac.org/content/training_aug2002.shtml The program carries 7 CLE credits, including 2 ethics credits, and 3 Guardian ad litem credits. The training is geared toward attorneys, advocates, and parents considering or involved in due process. Get more information about Special Education Practice in Virginia at: https://www.wrightslaw.com/speak/02.08.va.htm 9. Subscription & Contact Info The Special Ed Advocate is a free online newsletter about special education legal and advocacy issues, cases, tactics and strategy, and Internet resources. Subscribers receive announcements and "alerts" about new cases, events, and special offers on Wrightslaw books. To
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