Special needs advocacy resource book : what you can do now to advocate for your exceptional child's education
By: Weinfeld, Rich.
Contributor(s): Davis, Michelle.
Publisher: Waco, TX Prufrock Press 2008Description: x, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781593633097.Subject(s): SPECIAL EDUCATION | ADVOCACY | PARENT ADVOCACYItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | IHC Library | 420 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | W006548 |
"An excellent resource for families and educators interested in developing advocacy skills. Using a common sense approach, it provides the reader with crucial information about laws related to special and gifted education, classroom and evaluation practices and key insights into how advocates, families and educators can develop positive working relationships focused on children's needs." - BOOK JACKET
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why is it important that we advocate for students?
What do effective advocates do?
What does an advocate need to know about outstanding classrooms or educational programs?
What does an advocate need to know about the law?
What does an advocate need to know about the IEP process?
What does an advocate need to know about evaluating a child's strengths and needs?
What does an advocate need to know to work effectively with the parents and family?
What does an advocate need to know about the school system, school, and classroom?
What does an advocate need to know about educational options beyond the standard public school offerings?
What does an advocate need to know about the dynamics of school meetings?
What does an advocate do to ensure effective implementation and
evaluate efficacy of individual student plans?
How can parents organize into groups and effectively advocate for their children?
Glossary
References
About the authors.
Patron comment on
While there is some great information in this book the bulk of it is very specific to the strong legislative environment that exists around education in the USA and is therefore of no use to a New Zealand reader.
Patron comment on
This book if very much a detailed account of the American education system which is not necessarily that relevant to education and special needs in NZ. It would be useful to have a book on advances in general with special education but I felt this focused more on the American system rather than general advocacy. The good thing that I did like is that it contained a detailed definiton of disabilities which is useful.
Patron comment on
Very useful reading for anyone involved in IEP process and relationship with their child's school