by Jolene | Oct 21, 2015 | Advocacy, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
10 Positive Ways to Advocate at School Advocacy at school. For many in the special needs community, that phrase conjures images of parents breathing fire while toting armloads of files and folders into an IEP meeting or annual review. Not a pretty picture. And, if the...
by Jolene | Sep 16, 2015 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Mid-September Is a Good Time to Pray Mid-September. The time of the year when the bloom is off the new school year rose. Lovely summer tans begin to fade. New shoes get scuffed. Spiffy school clothes lose their sizing in the wash. Haircuts go scruffy. The first wave...
by Jolene | Sep 9, 2015 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
3 Strategies for Good Communication After an IEP Meeting Welcome to DifferentDream.com, a website for parents of kids with special needs. Today’s post is the fourth and last in a series based on wisdom shared at last spring’s Accessibility Summit. One of the workshops...
by Jolene | Sep 2, 2015 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
10 Ways to Advocate at a Difficult IEP Meeting Welcome to DifferentDream.com, a website for parents of kids with special needs. Today’s post is the third in a series based on wisdom shared at last spring’s Accessibility Summit. One of the workshops at the...
by Jolene | Aug 27, 2015 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Moving from Us versus Them to We For 25 years, I dreaded August. Not because of my anxieties as a parent. But because of my anxieties as a teacher whose inclusive fourth grade classroom contained a high percentage of special need and at risk students. What made me...
by Jolene | Aug 26, 2015 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
4 Special Needs Obstacles to Avoid at School With the school year drawing closer–and perhaps even underway in some parts of the country–Different Dream’s series designed to help parents become the best advocates they can be continues. The series is based on the...
