What People Are Saying . . .

Wendy, a conference host, wrote:

Good Morning Pete and Debra,

I just want to thank you both on behalf of our regional PTA for a successful day on Saturday! Debra, it was a pleasure working with you on this and I thank you for your prompt responses, assistance and attention to detail throughout the process as it helped make for an incredibly successful day!

Pete, it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope you made it home safely and I just wanted to thank you for your passion and motivation in assisting and reaching as many people as possible with the important advocacy tools they need (both families and educators) to help make every child's potential a reality. I want to share with you some of the emails and messages I have received since Saturday's program from attendees:

1. "The Training was not merely excellent, but exceptional! Truthfully, it was the best conference I have ever attended."

"Mr. Wright is clearly an expert in the field of Special Education. The interactive way he led the workshops was not only effective, but inspiring! I especially appreciated the way that all the necessary tools were provided, right down to the magic pen."

"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible opportunity!"

2. "I feel so grateful to have been able to attend this session. THANK YOU so much for making it happen. Everything was amazing, the content, the company and the information was INVALUABLE! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!"

3. "Thank you so much for this lecture!! Hearing from the person who wrote the books was a once in a lifetime experience. I am in Early intervention and have a special needs child. It was so helpful."

4. "I've been wanting to attend Mr. Wright's workshop for years. The cost has been holding me back. Us solo parents just barely pay the bills. Thank you to the PTA for making this affordable! It was an offer I could not refuse. Great day learning a lot from Mr. Wright, the attending educators and fellow parents."

Again, on behalf of our regional PTA, thank you from the bottom of my heart for an inspiring day of invaluable resources, tools and information!! - From Wendy, who hosted a program in NY in February, 2024

"Pete, I just wanted to drop a line expressing my sincere appreciation for the amazing job you did at yesterdays conference!"

"I've been inundated with expressions of thanks, messages of how incredibly insightful the content was and how knowledgeable and engaging you are as a presenter. I, of course feel the same and was so happy to hear everyone had the same response from hearing you that I have!"

"I thank you for all you do. Wishing you all the best and safe travels. Very much looking forward to the next time!" - From Tina, who hosted a program in NY in November, 2023

"My son is the child with epilepsy I asked about yesterday at the Wrightslaw training. Though I've tried, I have had the hardest time navigating educational rights. From your training, I learned how to use Google Scholar and discovered a case a few miles from my house that is just like the Fry case."

"Our issue is the same. In our county, by court order, children are now supposed to be allowed to have a seizure detection dog attend school with them. Thanks for helping empower me to help him." Very Gratefully - Becky from CA

"The October, San Jose training was the best continuing legal ed seminar ever! Loved the Charles Schulz quote that 'A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother!'"

"After I attended your program, I was able to expand my son's IEP to include speech therapy, OT, and daily reading interventions. I ended up doing private, one on one OG tutoring for my son because the reading interventions at school were not effective. But the year following, the school instituted a legitimate OG program for struggling kids, which I was happy about. I trained in an OG program, too." - April M. an attorney in CA

"I want to thank you for a wonderful Special Education Boot Camp in Wakefield, MA in 2019. You may not remember me, but I was the only military spouse in the group."

"At the time, we were in the middle of a legal battle, the district had just agreed to mediation. I want to thank you because your conference helped me to assist my attorney in making the best case possible. Thanks to you, I knew exactly what information to provide them and how to present it in the most effective way. Most importantly, I learned how to interact with the district. I was also able to follow along with my attorney's thought process and understand what was going on which took away so much stress!"

"The mediation didn't go well, the district dug their heels in at first. We filed for due process immediately and surprise, surprise, the district ended up settling! While I can't disclose the terms, I can say, I think it ended very fairly and my son is now attending a fantastic therapeutic boarding school that meets his unique needs!"

"I truly believe spending a few hundred dollars to attend your conference saved me tens of thousands in legal fees! I've already recommended your conference to several other special needs parents. I just can't say enough good things about the experience. Thank you again!!" - Claire H.

"Thank you for the Redding, CA workshop. I came down from Oregon and it was well worth it! I liked Peter's quick & directive teaching style. I felt he was truly in it to give us all the best and most pertinent information and more importantly tools that he has collected in his career. Thank you! I feel so much more prepared to go into my first IEP meeting!!!!!" Liz, parent (Facebook)

"I had attended Mr. Wright's workshop yesterday in San Jose, California. Gave an opportunity to meet with awesome speaker. Mr. Wright's life story is inspiring. I gained wonderful experience from the workshop. With enlightened knowledge about the law & process, I feel empowered to work with the school system."

"His engagement with audience, energy and passion for the subject is amazing. In fact, last night I read most of the IEP FAQ book and started making points for upcoming IEP annual meeting (March 21st). I finally, figured out how to present my concerns with the current IEP goals. Hope to get well written SMART goals for the next year."

"Thank you and appreciate for providing an invaluable opportunity to learn and gain the knowledge to support our children's needs." Padma U. from San Jose, CA

"It was a great seminar! Sold out within 2 months. It was a lot of information crammed in one day, but Peter Wright was very entertaining, and thank goodness he broke it down for us. With his guidance, I feel really empowered for my future IEP meetings."

"Can you imagine how overwhelming it is to look at laws and regulations for the first time? The seminar moved rather quickly through the three books, but the most valuable thing we all walked away from is hearing the author point out, highlight, bullet point his own work so that you can quickly reference them later. I'm not kidding." - Mary Tran, Lets Play OC! (To read Mary's full blog post about the conference, please click here.)

"Hi Pete, Thank you for the informative and excellent class on Thursday. I have been using your books with all my students for the past 5 years. I will tell you that since I attended your session 5 years ago, I have not attended a local special education law session. The speakers are not at your level of understanding, experience and training. Your training has really advanced my career. Most especially, it has allowed me to do good work for kids." - Dr. Terry Ehiorobo - Adjunct Faculty, Special Education Law Professor and Director of Special Education (for a local school district in Great Lakes area.)

"I am grateful for your training at the Boot Camp in MA. Using your advice, my daughter is now going to receive more services than we even requested. The school principal and I are back on laughing terms. I have also been able to assist friends with issues they have been having. And I gave the principal a lesson on the bell curve. She feels that the way I have been taught is much easier to understand. I will always be forever grateful for the great training you both provided. - LC - Massachusetts Attendee

"I want to thank you for the incredible two day Boot Camp in West Virginia last week. I am a parent of a 12 year old and I wish I had been to one of these sooner. I wasn't sure if I could afford the time off to attend with my wife and I am so happy I did. Not only will I be a better advocate for my son, but as a sales professional. I really enjoyed your presentation and learned a few new ideas to make my presentations better. I will make sure that I tell every parent of a special needs child, I know what a great training program you put on." - Bucky - West Virginia Attendee

"What a marvelous conference! I often leave sped presentations angry and/or guilty because of all the things that were done or not done. This time I left encouraged, inspired and armed!" - Melissa from MD

"I thank you! I have been blessed to attend three of your "boot camps" and always learn from your web site. Than you so very much!" - Joan C from Southwick, MA

"Thank you! This website and newsletters are a life saver! This is a wonderful resource and I recommend it to everyone I know who has a special needs child or a child with an IEP. Your seminars are so empowering. The newsletter last month with Aimee Gilman was priceless! Ms. Gillman had me laughing so hard I was crying! Thank you again for providing this excellent resource!" Arlene S from FL

"Thank you for sharing so much incredible information, and for sharing yourselves. I enjoyed your complimentary styles of getting information to your audience. You truly seem to be a Ying and Yang combo."

"The Wrightslaw Special Education Law Seminar in Michigan was a tremendously rewarding experience and will forever change our practice." Bryan I. Eder, Esq., Chudnof & Eder, PLC

"Your boot camp was the most useful CLE I've ever attended. CLEs are notoriously boring and unpleasant. Your program was neither and I learned a lot, even as an experienced practitioner in the field."- Rob Mead, KU Wheat Law Library

"I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Your delivery was so engaging that I lost all track of time. You gave me a great boost. Thank you for an enlightening and stimulating presentation!" - Marie from FL

"THANK-YOU so much for the opportunity to learn such invaluable information this past weekend. It was the BEST!"

"As a high school counselor, I am often not 'in the loop' as I need to be so this information was particularly valuable to me. When I came back, I started to review records and translate data into percentiles -- which made things very, very clear to me. Thanks so much!"

"I recently attended your Bootcamp. Thank you a million times over for giving me information that I am now utilizing in child study meetings that I attend as an advocate."

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