{"id":11852,"date":"2014-09-04T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T18:58:15","slug":"starting-a-new-iep-advocacy-year-back-to-school-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/starting-a-new-iep-advocacy-year-back-to-school-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a New IEP Advocacy Year: Back to School Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Starting%20a%20New%20IEP%20Advocacy%20Year%3A%20Back%20to%20School%20Tips\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/istock\/boy.bus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" \/>It&#8217;s that time again!<\/p>\n<p>For parents of children with special needs, \u201cback to school\u201d means the start of a new IEP advocacy year. Here are some tips to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Get your back to school supplies <em>for parents. <\/em>Find out what you&#8217;ll need to help keep documents in order.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Update the school nurse on health or medication changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Initiate contact and educate the new teacher and school staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Make a plan for monitoring your child&#8217;s progress on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Get a baseline picture of your child. Get your child a check-up, update, or follow-up check by your own therapists \/ specialists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Catch up on new legal developments in special education law with recent developments and important older cases.<\/p>\n<p>Read all the tips and case law summaries from Attorney Lisa Krizman in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.school.tips.krizman.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Starting a New IEP Advocacy: Back to School Tips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.school.tips.krizman.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.school.tips.krizman.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again! For parents of children with special needs, \u201cback to school\u201d means the start of a new IEP advocacy year. Here are some tips to keep in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/starting-a-new-iep-advocacy-year-back-to-school-tips\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[801,792],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","tag-back-to-school-tips","tag-effective-advocacy-strategies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}