As you've advocated previously, you may already be familiar with these...
For advocacy with 2e (IEP and/or 504): the
WrightsLaw website, the book
From Emotions to Advocacy, and corresponding
fetaweb.com website are indispensable resources.
Have you seen the gifted advocacy
Guidebook on the Davidson Database?
More advocacy tips in these old posts:
- In this
recent thread, several posts discuss reasons to not use the word "bored" when advocating.
- While in general there is good and bad in everything, a focus on negativity and disappointment may be seen as
smacking the oobleck with a spoon and creating an unyielding solid... it works against advocacy.
- Focus on the positive, on the ideas set forth in the law and in school policies, and how the school can implement these to help meet your child's needs for intellectual peers and an appropriate level of academic challenge and pacing...
Tips on preparing for a meeting.
