The 2009 schedule includes the following programs:

FREE - December 3, 2009: Oklahoma City, OK - Special Education Law and Advocacy Training sponsored by the Oklahoma Disability Law Center and Partners in Education Advocacy. Speaker: Pete Wright.

December 3, 2009: St. Paul, MN - From Emotions to Advocacy Training sponsored by the Autism Society of Minnesota. Speaker: Pat Howey.

December 4, 2009: Peoria, IL - Special Education Law and Advocacy Training sponsored by DisabilityGoTo, Inc. Speaker: Wayne Steedman.


The 2010 schedule includes the following programs:

February 5, 2010: Private Training. Speaker: Pete Wright

March 20, 2010: Wheaton (Chicago Area), IL - From Emotions To Advocacy training sponsored by SEA200 Special Education Alliance District 200. Speaker: Pat Howey.

March 25, 2010: Bakersfield, CA - Special Education Law and Advocacy Training sponsored by H.E.A.R.T.S. Connection. Speaker: Pete Wright.

March 27, 2010: Grand Rapids, MI - Special Education Law and Advocacy Training sponsored by the Autism Society West Shore Michigan. Speaker: Wayne Steedman.

What People Are Saying . . .

"What a marvelous conference! I often leave sped presentations angry and/or guilty because of all the things that were done or not done. This time I left encouraged, inspired and armed!" - Melissa from MD

"Thank you for sharing so much incredible information, and for sharing yourselves. I enjoyed your complimentary styles of getting information to your audience. You truly seem to be a Ying and Yang combo." - Barb from CT

"Your boot camp was the most useful CLE I've ever attended. CLEs are notoriously boring and unpleasant. Your program was neither and I learned a lot, even as an experienced practitioner in the field." - Rob Mead, KU Wheat Law Library

"I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Your delivery was so engaging that I lost all track of time. You gave me a great boost. Thank you for an enlightening and stimulating presentation!" - Marie from FL

"THANK-YOU so much for the opportunity to learn such invaluable information this past weekend. It was the BEST!"

"As a high school counselor, I am often not 'in the loop' as I need to be so this information was particularly valuable to me. When I came back, I started to review records and translate data into percentiles -- which made things very, very clear to me. Thanks so much!"

"I recently attended your Bootcamp. Thank you a million times over for giving me information that I am now utilizing in child study meetings that I attend as an advocate."

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A Note About IDEA Reauthorization

The federal regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 went into effect in August, 2006. Wrightslaw programs explain key changes in IDEA 2004 and the regs.

In most of our training programs, we generally use Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition, Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind, and Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition.

Programs related to the law include the history of special education law, changes in the legal requirements for evaluations, reevaluations, IEPs, and IEP team meetings. Programs also include new procedural requirements in IDEA 2004 including the “Due Process Complaint Notice” and “Resolution (IEP) Session.” Participants will learn about No Child Left Behind and any recent Supreme Court decisions and status of any pending U.S. Supreme Court cases and how these decisions are likely to affect you.

Advocacy programs focus on advocacy skills, paper trails, the Letter to a Stranger, negotiation techniques, understanding test data, SMART IEPs, organization of the child's file, the Rule of Adverse Assumptions, the 5 W's+H+E and much more.