This The IEP Meeting: Facilitating and Communicating Effectively is designed to train IEP team members how to facilitate meetings that ensure effective communication, remain focused on the student’s needs and avoid delays in providing services. You learn communication strategies for working with parents, who often struggle with coming to terms with a child who has a disability and experience frustration in working with a system based on numerous policies and state and federal laws. This The IEP Meeting: Facilitating and Communicating Effectively also teaches you to recognize the signals for a potentially difficult IEP meeting and the skills needed to turn a difficult meeting into one that is productive. Plus, you find out how to communicate with everyone involved in the IEP meeting -- to ensure the process moves along smoothly.
You also gain facilitation strategies that help you expedite IEP meetings without sacrificing quality, outcomes and services.
Chapters
Chapter 1 The Basics and Requirements of an IEP Meeting
Chapter 2 Organization: Paying Attention to Detail
Chapter 3 Communicating Effectively
Chapter 4 Managing a Contentious Meeting
Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this The IEP Meeting: Facilitating and Communicating Effectively, you will be able to:
- Explain why IEP meetings are needed, and discuss the rights and responsibilities of all team members.
- Implement the organizational details needed to prepare for an IEP meeting.
- Apply strategies to ensure that communication before, during and after an IEP meeting is collaborative and productive.
- Recognize potential difficulties in IEP meetings, and demonstrate the ability to turn an adversarial meeting around.
- Complete chapter assessments with 100 percent mastery and the final assessment with 80 percent master.
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