Stacey Hoaglund
ADVOCATE, LIFE COACH, CONSULTANT, SPEAKER, AUTHOR
Category: Advocacy
Category: Advocacy
Summer Road Trippin
When I was a kid, all vacations were road trips, when we were lucky enough to have one. While there most certainly was excitement in the air to break out and go someplace I had never been before, one of the things that stands out in my mind is hearing one or both of my
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10 Ways to Have a Blasting Good Time
The summer can be a challenge for kids who have grown accustomed to the structure of the school day. To offset the 10 weeks of less structure, there are a variety of activities that parents can do with their kids that won’t break the bank. 1. Have a Scavenger or Treasure Hunt: Create a list
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Do You Understand The Importance Of Graphed Data?
PROGRESS MONITORING FOR IEP GOALS Here we are in May – one more month to go until the school year is over. Do you know if your child has made progress? How can you tell? Just because someone has told you that they have? Do you have evidence? – as in assessment data? Did you
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4 Special Education Laws Parents Should Know
……and teachers should know them too. Hopefully you know that schools don’t offer services, supports or inclusive education because it’s the right thing to do (although it is). They do those things, or at least are supposed to, because there are laws that require them. HOWEVER, there are PLENTY of advocates, and we advocates have
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5 Signs of a Good IEP
While there are most certainly more than 5 things you need to watch for in developing your child’s IEP, I’d have to say that these are my TOP 5 – no matter who the child is or how much special education they’re getting. If you’re not getting a draft of your child’s IEP, that’s the
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You Can’t Be Brave If You’re Too Tired
As parents of kids with disabilities, ya know the thing that we forget about the most? Ourselves. As we stay hypervigilant on helping our kids face, and hopefully overcome, some of their biggest obstacles, the one thing that they need more than anything else is us, but some of us do a lousy job making
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Enhancing Your Advocacy Skills
“When the System Says “No”… what’s a parent to do?” So often we’re faced with systems that tell us “no” when we ask for something that we passionately believe that our child needs. It could be the response you get when you ask for inclusion, additional adult support, proper job coaching in order to prepare
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Cutting through the overwhelm to bring about real change
I hope that you had a joyous holiday season and did what I did this week, and took some time off to reset, regroup and remind yourself that it’s ok, and very much necessary, to take time away from worrying about the kids, the house and the list that plays over and over in your
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Is Your Child Being Bullied in School?
Imagine being a kid with a disability in school today. How could the very nature of the environment not stress you out? In fact, I know many families who saw such a marked improvement in their child’s stress and anxiety during school shut-downs that they didn’t send them back to school. They claim that their
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Does Your Child Have an Emergency Preparedness Plan at School?
Ensuring that your child with (and without, for that matter) a disability is as prepared as they can be for a school emergency, is essential. When the horrific school shooting happened in Parkland, I was in the gallery of the Florida Capitol for Developmental Disabilities Day. I can recall so vividly a friend showing me
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