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Summary: The PERFECT companion...
Review: This book is the perfect companion to "Wrightslaw: Special Education Law". If you have a child with special needs the most frustrating thing as a parent is trying to get educational services for your child. This book teaches you how to advocate for your child to get the services he needs. The Wrights give you the confidence and skills that you need to successfully advocate for your child. This book (and it's predecessor) help level the playing field between the parents and the school. As a parent and child advocate, I own several 100 books. This book (and Wrightslaw) rank in the top 5. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who has a special needs child who is attending public school.
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Summary: A Must Have for Parents of Children who have Disabilities!
Review: This book takes you step by step through the process of Advocating for your child! As parents we all know how confusing it can be to understand the system, test scores, IEP's and everything in between. From Emotions to Advocacy takes all the guess work out of it for us! It is an easy to read guide to Advocating for children with disabilities. It helps you to understand the process and how to work with the principals, diagnostitians, teachers and para-professionals to have a successful school year for your child! Most importantly how to take emotion out of the equation so that you can see things clearly and not burn any bridges on your way to getting what your child needs!
Anyone who has to deal with IEP's and ARD meetings should have this book.
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Summary: good, book but for more practical help. . .
Review: This book was good, however, most of the content was merely a restatement of the relevant laws. For a book that gives parents more practical strategies they can really use, a must read is How To Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child by Gary Mayerson.
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Summary: Wonderful Resource For Parents of Special Education Students
Review: This is a wonderful book. It is an easy read. There are many practical ideas for becoming a better advocate for your child.
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Summary: This is the first book parents must purchase!
Review: This is the book that parents of special needs children have been searching for!When a child does not "fit in the box", parents find that they must search for information on how to care for their child. Just when they have mastered the medical maze, the child begins school and the search for advice and knowledge begins all over again! Children with disabilities who succeed in school have parents who learn to set aside their feelings and clothe themselves in the armor of advocacy. "From Emotions to Advocacy" assists parents in the journey through the special education labyrinth by giving them a focus. Parents learn accurate documentation and record-keeping, productive communication skills, effective tactics and strategies, and Pete and Pam Wright have put it all together into an easy to read, understandable package. Parents who use the process and procedures outlined in "From Emotions to Advocacy" will avoid many of the pitfalls that entrap many parents of special needs children. I wish this book had been available in 1986, not only for my own use, but so that the hundreds of parents I have worked with since then could have benefited from it. If you are the parent or if you know of a parent of a special needs child, do yourself or them a favor. Buy yourself or them this book!
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Summary: GREAT Resource! Received sevices for my autistic child!
Review: Without this book I don't know if my daughter would be receiving the services that she is today. I also recommend Wrightslaw: Special Education Laws! Both are excellent resource tools for getting the services my child so desperately needed. Thanks so much, Pam & Pete Wright!
Sincerely,
Paula Wright-Cox
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Summary: GREAT Resource! Received sevices for my autistic child!
Review: Without this book I don't know if my daughter would be receiving the services that she is today. I also recommend Wrightslaw: Special Education Laws! Both are excellent resource tools for getting the services my child so desperately needed. Thanks so much, Pam & Pete Wright!
Sincerely,
Paula Wright-Cox
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Summary: THE HELP WE PARENTS NEED!
Review: Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, The Special Education Survival Guide is a must have for ALL parents with a child in the special education system.
FETA helps to organize your thoughts, concerns and plan for your childs education. It gives you the ability to understand where the schools are coming from and how to build an effective relationship with the Special Education team. By doing this, you can effeectively advocate for your child. As the parent,you should be the "Project Manager" for your child as he/she makes her way through school. Through FETA you gain an understanding of HOW to do this. Special education systems and laws can at best be confusing and overwhelming, we parents need help in sorting it all out and FETA does that! We the parents of children in special education need to be equal players in the planning for our kids, NO ONE knows them like we do, and NO ONE will advocate for them like we will! FETA is an important tool in that process.
FETA also does a wonderful thing. It shows you how to organize all the mounds of paper that special education produces. I walk into meetings and seminars with everything I need at my fingertips.
FETA does someting else amazing, it helps you to understand the TESTING SCORES! Yikes, we all need help with that!
I can go on forever about this book, but I am running out of room. From special education laws, IEP's, resources, how to write effective letters, it its ALL in there! GET THIS BOOK!!
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