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The Parent IEP Lab

Oct 31, 2023

Are you tired of everyone talking about self-care and how important it is to be level-headed when advocating...

...but needing help in having some tools to actually DO that? It's so much harder to put into practice. 

Today, Denise Kleinman is helping to introduce an actual tool you can use to process your advocacy...


Oct 24, 2023

It's time we talk about 504's...

Because this under-rated and often misunderstood learning plan is pretty amazing when it works and it's being implented! 

...but pretty useless if it's not. 

Topics we cover today are: 

1) 504's vs IEP (let's review the difference!)

2) Can you have BOTH an IEP & 504? (hint: I see this...


Oct 17, 2023

The #1 thing I help parent advocates do is to focus in on WHAT their advocacy should be focused on. 

SO! It's not suprising that we have to back up and ask ourselves some questions about the plan in place, and how it's working and how it isn't! 

This is the recording of the free webinar we held last week to help parents...


Oct 10, 2023

Ever wonder what evaluation test questions are like? Ever wonder if your child's knowledge is being truly captured in the evaluation report?

Dr. Tinita Kearney, a speech language pathologist and PhD, discusses the importance of culturally relevant and dynamic evaluations and what that actually looks and sounds like.


Oct 3, 2023

I overheard some teachers talking in a coffee shop a while ago...and I while I sat listening to them...offended...I also thought about how we (meaning you...and me!) can persuade them to think a little deeper.

So today on the podcast, it's a bit different-because it's story telling time! Both in how staff learns...