Posts in education
Are you Advocating for Your Needs?

As parents and guardians we always ensuring we advocate for the needs of our children. Are they getting their accommodation, are people supporting them, and is their need being seen. But here’s my question to you about you…. Are you advocating for what you need? Advocating is tiring, stressful and often emotional. You can only look afternoon else if you are looking after you as well! Today’s post is all about how to support your mental, physical and emotional self (I admit up front I sometimes, OK my husband will say often, am not good at this myself…. But I am trying).

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Individual Education Plan - The basics

Did your child come home from the first week of school with a letter for you to complete around your child’s IEP? I year ago I wrote about this in another blog post, What you Need to Know … Individual Education in this post I take you deeper into what the plans mean. Are you not too sure what it means and what to do with it? Today I share some of the reason you get that letter, what it is important and how tips on how to connect with your students teacher around your goals for this 2019/2020 school year.

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