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To register for an event, contact your district coordinator. Each district has an individual designated as the OT/PT 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 Andrew Willson at awillson@fgcu.edu.
1/10/2025 - 1/10/2025
SLP and OT/PT Roles and Responsibilities in IEP Meetings
Location: N/A
Presenter(s): Jose L. Martín, J.D., Attorney at Law
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.
*Please note we are currently in the process of getting CEU approval for PT. (10/26/2024) The PT CEU approval is currently being processed today. (11/13/2024)
Time: 1:00-3:00pm (EST) Noon-2:00pm (CST)
Details:
Zoom Meeting Room
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N/A, N/A N/A
Room #: Zoom instructions are in the documents above.
Registration Deadline: 11/22/2024
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1/24/2025 - 1/24/2025
SLP and OT/PT Roles and Responsibilities in IEP Meetings
Location: N/A
Presenter(s): Jose L. Martín, J.D., Attorney at Law
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)
Details:
Zoom Meeting Room
N/A
N/A, N/A N/A
Room #: Zoom instructions are in the documents above.
Registration Deadline: 1/17/2025
Document(s):
Comments:
2/7/2025 - 2/7/2025
SLP and OT/PT Roles and Responsibilities in IEP Meetings
Location: N/A
Presenter(s): Jose L. Martín, J.D., Attorney at Law
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)
Details:
Zoom Meeting Room
N/A
N/A, N/A N/A
Room #: Zoom instructions are in the documents above.
Registration Deadline: 1/31/2025
Document(s):
Comments: