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Advocating for Your Child - Getting Started

Assertiveness & Effective Parent Advocacy

5 Mistakes Parents Make (and How to Learn From Them)

ISSN: 1538-320
March 3, 2020

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As March blew in, so did IEP season.

Are you determined to be a more effective advocate this year? Lost and looking for advocacy tips? We've got them!

When you know an IEP meeting will be scheduled, it's time to prepare! Wrightslaw is here to help.

Over the next several weeks, you will get a refresher course on about IEPs, IEP teams, and strategies you can use in IEP meetings.

In this issue of The Special Ed Advocate, you'll get an overview of advocacy skills and learn that advocacy is not a mysterious process. A parent advocate asks questions to help identify your interpersonal style. She will also challenge you to learn the joys and challenges of parent advocacy.

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Advocating for Your Child - Getting Started

Good special education services are intensive and expensive. Resources are limited. Schools often balk at providing intensive services. you may wind up battling the school district for the services your child needs. What can you do?

To prevail, you need information, skills, and tools. Begin by reading Advocating for Your Child - Getting Started where you'll get answers to questions like these:
  • Why advocate?

  • Who can act as an advocate?

  • What do advocates do?

  • How do I get started?

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Know Yourself: Assertiveness and Effective Parent Advocacy

Parents of children with special education needs come in different styles and categories. To be an effective advocate, you need to be aware of your interpersonal style.

In Know Yourself: Assertiveness and Effective Parent Advocacy, parent advocate Marie Sherrett helps you identify your interpersonal style. Dig deeper.

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Five Mistakes Parents Make (and How to Learn From Them)

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." -- Lewis Carroll

When you attend an IEP meeting, you represent your child's interests. You have two goals:

  • to negotiate with the school and obtain quality special education services for your child, and

  • to build healthy working relationships with school personnel.

But many parents make mistakes that derail or delay their child's progress toward these goals.

If you are aware of these mistakes and how costly they can be, you may be able to avoid them.

Please read Five Mistakes Parents Make (and How to Learn From Them) Maybe you can tape this list on your fridge?)


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