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Innovation Hall
316 NE Ninth Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Program Description
In the From Emotions to Advocacy training program (one day, 6 hours), you learn how to take an active role in managing your child's special education. You'll learn about the five key sections in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), what our child's test scores mean, and how to develop SMART IEPs. You will learn how to prepare for meetings, the gentle art of disagreeing, and how to maintain healthy working relationships with the school. You will learn:
- about IDEA - Sections 1400, 1401, 1412, 1414 and 1415
- using the Bell Curve to understand your child's strengths and needs
- using a parent agenda
- how to build healthy working relationships with school personnel
- how to document information that may prevent or resolve disputes
- how to participate as an equal member of your child's IEP Team
All 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.
Agenda
| Schedule |
Registration starts at 8:30 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Introductions
- 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 4:00 - 4:30 |
Questions
and Answers |
Registration
| Registration Fee |
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Individual |
$45
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Conference fee includes a light breakfast, lunch, a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, three Wrightslaw books - Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 3nd Ed., Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Ed., 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.
Click here to register online.
Download and share the training flyer.
Scholarships: Limited scholarships are available to Oklahoma parents of children with disabilities or special needs. Apply here for parent scholarship.
Accommodations: Attendee can specify accommodations during the registration process as well as emailing sooner-success |at| ouhsc.edu.
Questions? Contact the sponsors by calling 405-271-2710 or emailing sooner-success |at| ouhsc.edu or by fax 405-271-2711.
Wrightslaw
programs often fill up early - don't miss out!
Logistics and Directions
Directions
Click here for map and directions to Innovation Hall.
Parking
Free parking is located just east of Innovation Hall where visitors can access the Convergence Parking Garage.
Airport
Will Rogers International Airport is a 24 mile roundtrip to the training facility.
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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