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Wrightslaw Special Education Law:
Navigating the Future: Post-Secondary Transition
'Starting with the End in Mind'
with Pete Wright, Esq.
Via ZOOM
Saturday, May 3, 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
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This Wrightslaw Special Education Law training will focus on disability law (IDEA, Section 504, + the ADA), emphasizing future planning, post-secondary transition, and guardianship options. It will be lead by Pete Wright, Esq., and is being sponsored by West Virginia Parent Training and Information, Inc.
Program Description
This one-day training will focus on disability law, planning for your child's future, transition, guardianship vis-a-vis supported decision-making, and advocacy techniques. The primary areas are:
- special education law, rights and responsibilities
- future planning, post-secondary transition and guardianship options
- tactics & strategies for effective advocacy
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 neither State nor disability specific and will not be recorded.
Agenda
| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Introductions
- IDEA
History, Book Overview, US Supreme Ct Cases
- Section
1400 Findings, Purpose
- Section
1401 Definitions: Disability, Special Education, Related Services, LD,
etc.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:00 |
- Section
1412 Extended School Year, Child Find, Least Restrictive, Private Placements
- Section 1414 Evaluations and IEPs
- Section
1415 Due Process, Rules of Procedure, Discipline
- Section 504, ADA, FERPA, ESSA
- Episodic Conditions, Allergies, Epilepsy, etc.
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| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:30 |
The
Parent as the Special Ed Manager and Expert
- Developing
the Master Plan and the Rules of the Game
- Recognizing
and Avoiding the Fatal Obstacles and Dealing with Conflict
- Crisis,
Emergency, Help
- Organization
of the Child’s File
- Tactics
and Strategies and the Rule of Adverse Assumptions
- Paper
Trails and The Letter to the Stranger
- Meetings: Preparation and Strategies
- Body Language, Using your Eyes, and the 5 Ws+H+E
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| 2:30-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45-4:00 |
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Planning for the Future
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Transition - Post Secondary Education and Employment
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Options re Guardianship
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Supported Decision-Making
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Cases: Recent, SCOTUS, and above concepts
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Federal Agencies and their Role: USDOE, OCR, USDOJ
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| 4:00-4:30 |
Questions
and Answers |
Registration
| Registration Fee |
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| Individual |
$125 |
| Professional |
$175 |
Conference fee includes a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, three Wrightslaw books - Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 3rd Ed., Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Ed., and Wrightslaw: All About IEPs. Wrightslaw will also provide the three books to each attendee in the adobe.pdf format. The three print and pdf books retail for $103.70.
Click here to register online.
Note: Register by Friday, April 25, 2025 to insure books are received on time for the May 3rd Wrightslaw training. Adobe.pdf formats of the Wrightslaw books, as noted above, will be available on conference day. Book sets are shipping from Virginia. West Coast shipments take 3 to 5 business days to receive.
Refund Policy: Tickets are non refundable.
Questions?
Contact the sponsor, WV Parent Training Information, Inc. by emailing wvpti |at|aol.com.
Wrightslaw
programs often fill up early - don't miss out!
We built
the Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities so people can get reliable information and support.
The State Yellow Pages has many useful resources - evaluators, educational consultants, academic tutors, support groups, grassroots organizations, advocates, attorneys and others who help parents get services for their children.
If you provide a service, sign up to be listed on the Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities - this is a free service from Wrightslaw.
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