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To register for an event, contact your district coordinator. Each district has an individual designated as the Speech/Language coordinator or lead. If you are unsure who that is in your district, contact your ESE Director.
For educators not affiliated with a district, email Alice Kaye Emery at aemery@coe.ufl.edu.

11/22/2024 - 11/22/2024
SLP and OT/PT Roles and Responsibilities in IEP Meetings
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Presenter(s): Jose L. Martín, J.D., Attorney at Law
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Description: Jose Martin, Attorney at Law, will present information related to the roles of SLPs and OT/PTs in Individualized Educational Planning (IEP) meetings. The IEP team meeting is the primary forum for both educational decision-making and parent participation in the special education process. This session will address key IEP team procedural requirements and their legal implications, including proper IEP team configuration, excusing of required members, notice of IEP meetings and its contents, proper sequence of decision-making, use of interpreters, and other steps and measures to ensure meaningful parental participation. In addition, the session will address helpful techniques to facilitate the meeting process, such as pre-planning steps, avoiding predetermination claims, dealing with contentious advocates and parents, helpful types of questions to ask of the team, measures to deal with conflict and disagreement, and types of statements school staff should avoid. Q & A opportunities will be provided through the session.
 

Time: 1:00-3:00pm (EST) Noon-2:00pm (CST)
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Room #: Zoom instructions are in the documents above.
Registration Deadline: 11/6/2024
Document(s): Jose Martin Flyer.pdf
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10/23/2024 - 11/8/2024
Coordinator Conversations
Location: NA
Presenter(s): Alice Kaye Emery District Coordinators
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Description:

The purpose of Coordinator Conversations is to provide an opportunity for SLP coordinators across the state to share in conversations around identified topics to problem-solve and to share knowledge and resources. We accomplish this by joining together on Zoom for a quick introduction of a pertinent topic, and we then divide into groups to address discussion points. Groups then share out any information or resources they feel others would find helpful. 

The topic for our first conversation for 2024-2025 was
Service Provision Issues.  Resources shared during this meeting can be found in Documents below.

Time: 9:00am-10:30am
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Registration Deadline: 10/23/2024
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