Choosing the Right Special Education Advocate: What Every Parent Should Know
When your child has a disability, the school system can feel overwhelming. Between evaluations, IEP meetings,...
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Summer Is the Perfect Time to Help Your Child Discover What They Love!
For many families of children with disabilities, summer can feel like a break from routines, therapies, and school...
The Invisible Load: What Parenting a Child with Disabilities Really Feels Like
There is a part of parenting a child with a disability that no one prepares you for. It’s not just the appointments....
10 Simple Steps to Create a Parent Advisory Committee
Quite often, an advocate’s first experience in the world of educational advocacy is through their involvement in a parent...
5 Tips for Ending the School Year on a Positive Note
It's hard to believe that the school year is gone already. For some parents, there's still another week or so, and for...
Ugh! Standardized Tests! Now What?
We are in the height of testing season. It seems like every school I walk into, all I hear is chatter about the FAST, STAR...
Envisioning an Improved Continuum of Services
As many parents are participating in their child’s matriculation meeting at this time of year - transition meeting from...
Figuring Out What’s Worth Fighting for
ad·vo·cate According to Webster’s Dictionary, the word advocate has been around since the 14th century. The...
Special Education Checklist for Parents
According to IDEA, Special Education is “specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique...
Never Underestimate the Power of Extracurricular Activities
It's that time of year when many parents begin thinking about the summer and how to plan out extracurricular activities....