Beth Liesenfeld

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 318: What Parents Need to Know about the IEP Process, with Therapist Beth Liesenfeld · 14 Feb 2023 podcast

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So that's the whole premise of my podcast is just kind of what I wish that I would be able to tell parents so that it makes it easier for them because this is a really, really hard process.

But the cool thing that happened when I started studying

parents and being in IEPs is that when I was in all these meetings, I actually took a break from maternity leave, came back with fresh eyes.

And I was in seven IEP meetings in that one week.

And most of it was with the same IEP school team.

So same case manager, same school psychologist that was in every meeting.

And every single meeting had a different tone coming out of that meeting.

Some of those IEPs were totally amazing, and we were all excited to implement this IEP.

We understood who this kid was, what they needed, and our part in that.

And then some meetings just fell flat and some of them were just terrible and tension-filled.

And I started studying the patterns in parents of like, what is it about this parent that changed this outcome?

outcome of the IEP meeting.

And it was about this like background knowledge and also having the confidence to ask these questions.

And so that just kind of fed into the podcast more and more, where I was like, oh, I feel for those kids who aren't getting the best out of their school IEP team, sometimes that's the parent education and sometimes that's just the school IEP team being difficult, let's say.

But I felt like I could make a big difference in connecting those two and and really providing that.

parent education to bridge the gap between those two systems.

Yeah, so occupational therapists, if you look from a big lens, what we do is we look at a person and we look at the barriers between

what they want and need to do and what's not allowing them to get there.

Most often that's a disability, right?

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