IEP and Inclusion Tips for Parents and Teachers

Parent how-to guide to optimizing IEP meeting results

Written by two parents, IEP and Tips is full of helpful hints for other parents of children who have disabilities such as their own. Intended primarily for parents, it features 127 tips to optimize the results of your child's IEP process. Coauthors Anne Eason, an inclusion attorney, and Kathleen Whitbread, an associate professor,ook at inclusion research and reflect on their experiences with their own children who have disabilities. Promotes parent advocacy with legal advice and hands-on knowledge to help your children succeed in and out of school.

Includes chapters on: Getting prepared for IEP meetings, creating legally correct and educationally sound IEPs, ensuring access to the general curriculum, tracking IEP progress, and forming effective family/school partnerships. A great way to get parents, teachers and administrators to have shared goals.

Softbound book, 78 pages, 2006.