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Advocates
teach parents how to negotiate for their children. In the Advocacy
Center, advocates share ideas and tips with you.
Sue Heath answers questions about reading, research based instruction, advocacy strategies, school improvement, and other issues in Doing Your Homework.
Pat Howey answers questions from parents in Ask the Advocate.
You
will find hundreds of articles, cases, newsletters, and resources
about special education law and advocacy in the Advocacy
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Libraries.
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Sample of Advocacy Tips
Learning
to Negotiate is Part of the Advocacy Process
by Brice Palmer. This article includes rules, advocacy tactics and techniques.
Read
article
How
to Use a Parent IEP Attachment by Judy Bonnell.
When I had difficulty getting districts to take parent IEP attachments
seriously, I turned
to Prior Notice specifying that suggestions on the table must be accepted
or rejected, and the IEP team must list the reasons for accepting or rejecting
the proposal. I
devised a simple form... "
Get
Wrightslaw Books, Improve Your Local Library, Help Others. A
mom gets Wrightslaw books, improves her local libary and helps other parents
- with one
simple strategy!
Parents
Must Understand the Playing Field by Pat Howey. Parents need to learn
about trust, expectations, how to avoid power struggles, the parental
role, and how to understand different perspectives. Read
article.
How
to Prepare for a Due Process Hearing by Brice Palmer. You need to
present your case in an organized manner that gives the decision-maker
enough good factual information to reach a conclusion in your favor."
Read
Brice's advice
When time permits, we sponsor Creative
Solutions Contests. These Contests help us realize that there are
often several solutions to difficult problems.
In
our first Creative
Solutions Contest, we found solutions to a problem about transporting
a young child to school.
In
our second
Creative Solutions Contest, you helped a teacher find a solution
to a problem about IEPs that were illegally changed by school administrators
- without losing her job.
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