Webinar Rebroadcast (not a live event), March 15th, 2022, with the Special Needs Advocacy Network in Massachusetts. Improving Parent Participation in the IEP Process with Michael Gregory, J.D., M.A.T.
Program Agenda – Parents are essential team members, but often do not feel empowered during team meetings.
* While advocates know how to get thing done for students, they can also play a role in empowering parents to get things done for their children.
* Parents and advocates can promote effective parent participation in the IEP process.
* All special education professionals – advocates, attorneys, educators, related professionals, parents, neuropsychologists – can find this this focus valuable.
* In particular, looking at the IEP process through a “trauma lens” can help us understand ways in which the process can be made more safe, supportive, and effective for all parents.
Some things you will learn:
- Importance of parent participation in the IEP – laws, regulations, and guidance
- How Advocates can support parent participation
- What parents can and should document at home and/or share with school with or without remote learning
- How a “trauma lens” can help us understand how to make the IEP process more safe, supportive, and effective for all parents
About the Presenter – Michael Gregory is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Member of the Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He teaches and practices law as part of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), where he is Managing Attorney.
* At Harvard Law School, Gregory is the Director of TLPI’s Education Law Clinic, where law students both represent families of traumatized students in the special education system and learn and practice the skills of legislative lawyering to advance TLPI’s public policy agenda for trauma-sensitive schools.
* Gregory was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to serve on the Massachusetts Families and Children Requiring Assistance Advisory Board, and he is the co-founder of the Massachusetts Legal Services Learning Community for Special Education, a statewide coalition of attorneys and advocates.
* Gregory is co-author of TLPI’s Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Volumes 1 and 2 and has also published in the area of special education law.
Fees apply, registration is required to https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ej0louygd2a36cfa&oseq=&c=&ch= or contact Elaine Rabbit, programming@spanmass.org, Special Needs Advocacy Network, Inc., (508) 655-7999
