Creating Change: Student-Led IEPs and Youth Engagement as a Dispute Resolution Option | Webinar

(2016, March) | Useful to Parent Centers in working with youth and families. 

This interactive webinar from CADRE explores student-led IEPs and their relationship to self-advocacy and student engagement. In a student-led IEP, the student actively participates in the development of his/her IEP and takes a leadership role in decision-making about his or her future. Student engagement levels are individualized based on the age, needs, and abilities of the student. Participants in the IEP meetings include students, parents/caregivers, special educators, general educators, support staff, and administrators.

Student-led IEPs is an innovative dispute resolution practice that fits into Stage 1 of the CADRE Continuum: Prevention. Students gain greater awareness of the impacts of their disabilities and develop critical self-advocacy and problem-solving skills that will help them to reach their goals, improve their academic and postsecondary outcomes, and become leaders in their own lives and futures. Student-led IEPs also enhance student/parent/school/community relationships and partnerships.

Access the webinar at CADRE:
http://www.cadreworks.org/resources/cadre-materials-family-members/student-led-ieps-youth-engagement-dispute-resolution-option

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More about the Webinar:
The webinar was co-facilitated by a student from Oregon, a student from Washington DC, and the program director for youth leadership from SchoolTalk, a nonprofit focused on special education dispute resolution in DC. Presenters shared their personal experiences participating in the IEP process, provided a brief overview of the Student-led IEP demonstration project in Washington DC, showed a clip from a film series, shared resources, and facilitated a dialogue with webinar participants.