{"id":3106,"date":"2010-05-13T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2010-05-14T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:30:07","slug":"miss-emmas-iep-map-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/miss-emmas-iep-map-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Emma&#8217;s IEP Map for Success"},"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=\"Miss%20Emma%27s%20IEP%20Map%20for%20Success\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Sometimes the best way to approach an IEP team is through the heart.<\/p>\n<p>One of our readers, Nan, offered some interesting ideas about how to approach the IEP team to help them better understand your child.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Appeal to IEP team members\u2019 better instincts by presenting persuasive evidence. Can you invite the IEP team to your home to see your child read? Videotape him? Get credentialed professionals to evaluate and report? Think outside the box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nana Donna Creates Emma&#8217;s IEP Map<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/present\/view?id=dhb3tp3x_0c9c3g3h5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 5px;float:left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/emma.iepmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2008,\u00a0 Nana Donna was thinking &#8220;outside the box&#8221; when she created <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/present\/view?id=dhb3tp3x_0c9c3g3h5\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Miss Emma&#8217;s IEP Map to Success<\/span><\/a> to personally introduce her granddaughter, Emma, to the IEP Team. She asked that Emma&#8217;s Map be included as part of her educational record.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Another Unique Approach&#8230;<\/strong><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some parents have used video to introduce their children &#8211; and the child&#8217;s &#8220;unique needs&#8221; to the IEP team.\u00a0 You\u00a0 may have seen this video on our FB page.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Moody made a video to introduce her son to the IEP Team.\u00a0 It was a great success. Tiffany shared how she created it and the impact the video had on her son\u2019s IEP meeting.<\/p>\n<p>See her tips for making a video in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/iep.video.moody.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Introducing&#8230;\u00a0 He&#8217;s a Child, Not a Label<\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/iep.video.moody.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/iep.video.moody.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8G-R5arIR7w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8G-R5arIR7w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best way to approach an IEP team is through the heart. 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