Beth Liesenfeld
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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by the whole process, right?
I think the keys here are that so much stress is put on the IEP meeting itself.
And there's so many things that you can do in between IEP meetings that I think parents don't realize they have a lot of power and influence in that time in between those meetings.
And it also decreases that stress of I've got to get it right, right?
I have one hour to talk about my kid for the entire year.
Like, no, no, no.
That's that's not it at all.
But the parents that I've seen be successful take those opportunities to build relationships with every single person on their team.
And it doesn't have to be intense.
You can just send an email
twice a year to an occupational therapist like me, I would be like, oh my gosh, I got a parent email.
Cause I never heard from parents.
You know, so you stand out when you just reach out and make a relationship with somebody.
You might not jive with a case manager or the person who's managing your IEP as a whole.
But if you make a connection with the speech therapist or the OT or somebody else who is supporting your kid, that can do a ton for you on the inside as well.
The other thing is that you don't have to know it all, right?
You have to know enough so that you feel confident going into that meeting to ask really good questions.
I remember one of the preschool meetings that I was in, this was a child who had been in preschool for two years.
She was transferring to a charter school, which didn't have like really intensive services, but they did have special education services.
And that parent, because she had a good relationship with the rest of the team
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