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Forsyth Central Library
660 West 5th Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Program
Description
In From Emotions to Advocacy training programs, 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. Pete will teach you how to prepare for meetings, the gentle art of disagreeing, and how to maintain healthy working relationships with the school.
- 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
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
| 9:30 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 11:15 |
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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| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
- Obstacles
to Success, Resolving Parent/School
- Conflicts,
Emergency, Crisis, Help
- Evaluations
and Your Child's Disability
- Bell Curve / Charting Test Scores
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12:30 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:30 |
- Smart
IEPs
- Overview
of IDEA - Findings, Purposes and Definitions
- Section
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- ADA
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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 includes lunch, refreshments, a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, and three Wrightslaw books: Wrightslaw:
Special Education Law, 3rd Edition, Wrightslaw:
From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition and Wrightslaw:
All About IEPs. Wrightslaw will provide the three books to the attendee in the adobe.pdf format as well. The three print and PDF books retail for $113.60.
Online registration: You must be a resident of North Carolina to attend this training. Click here to register online.
Brochure/Flyer: Click here to download and share the conference flyer.
Special Accommodations: Contact Toni Stephens via email no later than August 31, 2026. ecac |at| ecacmail.org
Questions? Contact Toni Stephens by telephone 1-800-962-6817, 1-704-892-1321 or email ecac |at| ecacmail.org
Wrightslaw
programs often fill up early - don't miss out!
Logistics, Directions, Accommodations
Directions
Click here
for directions to the Forsyth Central Library.
Parking
There is a garage connected to the library with an entrance on Spring Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues. Additionally, there is a lot diagonally across from the library at the intersection of 5th and Spring Streets. Parking is free at both.
Airports
Piedmont Triad International Airport Authority
1000 A Ted Johnson Parkway
Greensboro, NC 27409
(approximately 24 miles to venue)
Accommodations
ECAC may provide one hotel room for the night before the conference for registered parents and caregivers whose primary residence is approximately two or more hours' driving time from the conference location. Hotel accommodations are subject to funding availability, must be requested in advance, and will be booked directly by ECAC. Reimbursement for independently booked hotel rooms will not be provided.
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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