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Wrightslaw
From Emotions to Advocacy Conference
with Pat Howey, Advocate and Paralegal
Red Bluff, CA
Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, 2022
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Wrightslaw From Emotions to Advocacy Conference , a Wrightslaw training program featuring Pat Howey, is being sponsored by the Tehama County SELPA. This event is private and organized for the Northern Region of California. Residents of the following counties can register for participation: Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Modoc, Plumas, Lassen, Sutter, and Yuba. If spots remain open by March 1, 2022, registration will be open to other counties.
The program will be held at:
Tehama County Office of Education
Library
1135 Lincoln Street
Red Bluff, CA 96080
Program Description
Pat Howey teaches you how to take an active role in managing your child's special education, the gentle art of disagreeing, and how to maintain healthy working relationships with the school.
- how to assess your child's strengths and needs
- how to prepare a Parent Report for the IEP Team
- 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
| 5:00 pm to 8:00
p.m. |
Friday, March 25, 2022 |
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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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Break |
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- Obstacles
to Success, Resolving Parent/School
- Conflicts,
Emergency, Crisis, Help
- Evaluations
and Your Child's Disability
- Tests
and Measurements 101
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| 9:00 am to 12:00
p.m. |
Saturday, March 26, 2022 |
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- 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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Break |
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- 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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Questions
and Answers |
Registration
This is a two-day event and attendees are required to attend both sessions. Conference fee includes Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, a Wrightslaw highlighter pen, three Wrightslaw books - Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Ed., Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Ed., and Wrightslaw: All About IEPs provided on the first day of the conference and then, at the conclusion of the program, Wrightslaw will provide attendees with a link to download those three books in the adobe.pdf format. The three print and pdf books retail for $103.70.
Click here to register online.
Wrightslaw
programs often fill up early - don't miss out!
Directions and Parking
Directions
Map and directions to the Tehama County Office of Education.
Parking
Parking is free.
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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