Introductions

• IDEA History, Book Overview, US Supreme Ct Cases
• Section 1400 Findings, Purpose
• Section 1401 Definitions: Disability, Special Education, Related Services, LD, etc.

• Section 1412 Extended School Year, Child Find, Least Restrictive, Private Placements
• Understanding Tests and Measurements, and the Bell Curve, Standard Scores, Scale Scores, % ranks, Grade Equivalent, Age Equivalent, Determining progress v. regression using Bar Graphs

• Section 1414 Evaluations and IEPs
  
• Section 1415 Due Process, Rules of Procedure, Discipline
• Section 504, ADA, FERPA, ESSA
• Episodic Conditions, Allergies, Epilepsy, etc.
• Recent Cases + OCR, USDOJ

The Parent as the Special Ed Manager and Expert

• Developing the Master Plan
• Knowing the Rules of the Game
• Recognizing and Avoiding the Fatal Obstacles
• How to Deal with Conflict, a Healthy and Normal event

• Crisis, Emergency, Help
• Organization of the Child’s File
• SMART IEPs
• Tactics and Strategies
• Rule of Adverse Assumptions
• Private Evaluations
• Paper Trails
• The Letter to the Stranger
• 5 Ws + H + E
• Preparation for Meetings
• Meeting Strategies

• 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

• Obstacles to Success, Resolving Parent/School
• Conflicts, Emergency, Crisis, Help
• Evaluations and Your Child's Disability
• Tests and Measurements 101

• The Bell Curve
• Charting Test Scores
• Smart IEPs
  
• Overview of IDEA - Findings, Purposes and Definitions
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• ESSA

Break

• 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