How to Make Your IEP Process Better with Parent Participation

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pveiCQJ6Z7Y

For educators. When you’re creating an IEP, getting parents involved isn’t just important, it’s the law. So reviewing strategies to increase parent engagement in the process should be part of the IEP best practices special educators review each year. Our blog series by author, consultant and former special education director and teacher Carol Kosnitsky shares five ideas for how you can make it easier for parents to participate in the IEP process:

1. Make it personal
2. Help parents get ready for IEP meetings
3. Level the playing field by sharing information
4. Try to understand the parent’s interest, not their position
5. Provide meaningful progress reports.

Check out the 8-part series on writing high quality IEPs from Carol Kosnitsky.

This series of brief animated videos from The ARC explain the 6 principles of IDEA They are just a reminder that parents, by law, should be an integral part of all aspects of implementation of IDEA.)

• Introduction to IDEA (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: The IEP (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: Eligibility (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: Participation (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: LRE (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: Evaluations (Video)
• Principles of IDEA: Procedural Safeguards (Video)