Stacey Hoaglund
ADVOCATE, LIFE COACH, CONSULTANT, SPEAKER, AUTHOR
Category: Advocacy
Category: Advocacy
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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Do You Know What CAPE Is All About on Your Child’s Transition IEP?
For kids in Florida, age 12 and up, who are in public school and have an IEP, the IEP is referred to as a “Transition IEP.” That’s because its intent is to begin to thoughtfully consider where a student will transition to once they are done with K-12 education. Something that MANY parents, and sometimes
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Monitoring Your Child’s Education Through Observation
Now that the new school year is in full swing, it’s a good time for parents to schedule an observation of their child’s educational setting. In order to be proactive in your child’s educational progress, it’s important to know what’s occurring during the time they’re at school. Here are some tips for conducting observations: Look
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Seven Step Process For Developing Standards-Based IEPs
A Pathway to Success! 7 Step Process For SB IEPs.pdf Download 7 Step Process For SB IEPs.pdf There is a seven-step process that you should use for developing standards-based IEPs. This process is designed to help you determine and identify appropriate goals that help your student reach grade-level standards, or at least know that you’re moving
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What You Should Expect from Your IEP Meeting…. But May Not Often Get!
You’d think, especially considering the federal law that requires IEP meetings to run in a certain way, that when you go to your first, or last, IEP meeting, that the very basics would be in place. I’m not even referring to the guts of the Present Level or the meaningfulness of the goals….just the basics.
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Good SLEEP – Sometimes Elusive, But Always Necessary
Getting good sleep can be quite elusive to people these days – Personally, there’s many nights when I lay in bed staring at the ceiling as thoughts of the million and one things I have to do tomorrow go ‘round and ‘round in my head. I don’t know about you, but when this happens to
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Dealing with Meltdowns
Are your back-to-school mornings rough on your child, AND on YOU? Is your child one who holds it together for most of the school day and then has a meltdown soon as they get in the car, or walk in the door? I hear these stories all of the time, but especially at this time
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