Stacey Hoaglund
ADVOCATE, LIFE COACH, CONSULTANT, SPEAKER, AUTHOR
Author: stacey
Author: stacey
Preparing for Your Child’s IEP Meeting
Before you meet with the school team for your child’s annual IEP meeting, it’s important to prepare. Anything can happen on the day of the meeting that can easily throw you off track. Since this is one of the most important documents for a child with autism when it comes to their education, time dedicated
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4th of July Survival Tips :)
The 4th of July is here, and it doesn’t have to be as stressful for your child as you might think. Yes, sensory sensitivities come to the forefront during holidays such as the 4th, and they might prefer to stay inside rather than endure what can be quite unsettling, and even painful, to them. This
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Empowered Parenting – Spiritual Connect Group
Link to join the group on the 3rd Wed of each month from 7-8 PM: Register in advance and attend this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdOCupz8vHdb9s7xHyBgBoSvIgo5R8-4M Are you struggling to parent? Does your child have challenges that go beyond what you know? Taking a village is an understatement for parents these days and this group will help you connect
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Strategically Planning Winter Break
The Holiday Break… You can see it now – Idyllic images of snuggling by the fire, kids playing quietly with their new and exciting toys, while you and your spouse sip hot cocoa on the cozy couch. If you’re lucky, that vision will last a few hours before it’s replaced by the need to go
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Gifting Shouldn’t Be This Hard (and with a little help, it’s not)
It’s tough enough to find holiday gifts for kids who are into everything, but for kids with autism who have a tendency to have more than narrow interests, holiday shopping can be as stressful as trying to keep track of whether your school is face to face or eLearning! You search and search to find
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Back to School 2020
Typically, at this time of the year (August), we’re getting ready to send our kids back into a classroom, but we know that we are quickly approaching an unprecedented back-to-school situation. While there are some kids across the nation who will go back into classrooms, hundreds of thousands (and maybe millions) will continue to do
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TAKE CONTROL IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
So, it appears that many schools across the nation will not be going back in August or September. Some of the largest school systems in the nation will have yet another semester, or more, of their students homebound. Some kids will be working with their parents, some won’t because parents simply don’t have the capacity
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ONLINE IEP MEETINGS – ARE THEY HERE TO STAY??
Beginning with the closings of school buildings, parents and teachers had to adjust to online IEP, behavior plan and evaluation/re-evaluation plan meetings. It was certainly a challenge at first. Different school systems chose different platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Team, Cisco Webex, etc). Given that it doesn’t look like we’ll be past Covid in the near future,
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Covid – Back to School Options (Do You Have Any?)
As parents are being asked for feedback and input into the plans to return to school, I encourage you to understand your rights and know that there are options. From all the families that I have heard from, I can sadly count on one hand the number of students whose parents report that their child’s
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Recognizing Signs of Trauma in Children Who Lack Communication Skills
There’s so much talk these days about “trauma-informed care” – mostly because of the increase in school shootings. However, kids are traumatized by more than perpetrators from the outside coming into their school buildings to cause them harm. Children who are not able to verbally communicate are very often educated in classrooms that lack typically
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