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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
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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.
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
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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