Beth Liesenfeld
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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It is not even parent-friendly.
And so occupational therapists from our training were from a medical background.
So yeah, we had.
maybe one class that talked about schools and within that we looked at one IEP.
So I came into that first year and I was like, what are all these acronyms?
Why are you all calling each other friends?
Like what is up with the culture of the school?
It's so different.
And so I got through that first year, started getting into, you know, I had eighty m IEP meetings per year.
And there came a time where I just started interrupting these meetings so to make sure that parents really knew what was happening because the process is so confusing.
Both the language and just like what's coming and like the context of what the district can and can't do.
And so I started wanting to pull parents aside before meetings, during meetings, and just say, hey, like this is what's going on in the background, or hey, this
This got granted to a family two hours ago because of this, this, and this.
And
I of course didn't have the opportunity to do that because if people aren't really familiar with occupational therapists in schools, we're a related service.
So we're never really the case manager in certain states we can be, but most states we're not.
We don't have a lot of parent contact.
And so there wasn't a lot of room or space for me to do some parent education.
And so when I started my podcast, the Parent IEP Lab podcast, this was my bent.
I was like, hey, this is what this term means.
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