
MI via ZOOM
October 9 @ 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
$135 – $165October 9 and October 29, 2025 – Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Series with Pete Wright, Esq., and Pat Howey via ZOOM.
Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference, a Wrightslaw training program is being sponsored by Michigan Parent, Advocate and Attorney Coalition (MiPAAC). One registration fee. Two full-day training sessions.
Wrightslaw programs are designed to meet the needs of parents, educators, health care providers, advocates and attorneys who represent children with disabilities regarding special education. The program is not disability specific.
Registration includes access to both Workshop 1 and Workshop 2. Individual workshop registration is not available.
Workshop 1 – Thursday, October 9, 2025 – Special Education Law and Advocacy Training
9:00-10:30 – IDEA History, Book Overview, US Supreme Ct Cases
Section 1400 Findings, Purpose
Section 1401 Definitions: Disability, Special Education, Related Services, LD, etc.
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-12:00 – Section 1412 Extended School Year, Child Find, Least Restrictive, Private Placements
Understanding Tests and Measurements, and the Bell Curve, Standard Scores, Scale Scores, % ranks, Grade Equivalent, Age Equivalent, Determining progress v. regression using Bar Graphs
12:00-1:00 – Lunch
1:00-2:30 – Section 1414 Evaluations and IEPs
Section 1415 Due Process, Rules of Procedure, Discipline
Section 504, ADA, FERPA, ESSA
Episodic Conditions, Allergies, Epilepsy, etc.
Recent Cases + OCR, USDOJ
The Parent as the Special Ed Manager and Expert
Developing the Master Plan
Knowing the Rules of the Game
Recognizing and Avoiding the Fatal Obstacles
How to Deal with Conflict, a Healthy and Normal event
2:30-2:45 – Break
2:45-4:00 – Crisis, Emergency, Help
Organization of the Child’s File
SMART IEPs
Tactics and Strategies
Rule of Adverse Assumptions
Private Evaluations
Paper Trails
The Letter to the Stranger
5 Ws + H + E
Preparation for Meetings
Meeting Strategies
4:00-4:30 – Questions and Answers
Workshop 2 – Wednesday, October 29, 2025 – From Emotions to Advocacy Training
9:00 – 10:30 – Section 1: Getting Started
Creating the Advocate’s IEP, the Master Plan
Taming the Paper Trail
Goals and Strategies for the Advocate
The Parent as Project Manager
Advocacy 101: Learning the Rules of the Game
10:30 – 10:45 – Break
10:45 – 12:00 – Obstacles to Success, Resolving Parent/School
Conflicts, Emergency, Crisis, Help
Evaluations and Your Child’s Disability
Tests and Measurements 101
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 – The Bell Curve
Charting Test Scores
Smart IEPs
Overview of IDEA – Findings, Purposes and Definitions
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
ESSA
2:30 – 2:45 – Break
2:45 – 4:00 – Rule of Adverse Assumptions
Taming the Paper Trail – Documenting and Writing Letters and using the “Letter to a Stranger” Strategy
IEP Meeting Strategies and Common Problems
Putting it all together
4:00 – 4:30 – Questions and Answers
Registration Fees –
* Early Bird Individual Registration Fee $135 – Early Bird Ends August 15, 2025
Regular Individual Registration Fee $165
* Early Bird registrants will receive FREE adobe.pdf download of Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2017, which includes all of the 2017 U. S. Court of Appeals special education cases and the two 2017 U. S. Supreme Court cases, Fry and Endrew F.
Conference fee includes a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, three Wrightslaw books – Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 3rd Edition, Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition, and Wrightslaw: All About IEPs provided the morning of the conference. Wrightslaw will provide the three books to each attendee in the adobe.pdf format as well. The three print and pdf books retail for $113.60.
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