Blog 4
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Questions I have
for my colleagues to provide help and support for my presentation Advocacy
Action Plan.
1.
I have printed
invitation for the parent meeting on flyers and each one of the teachers has
the information post on their classroom door. We have change the time to 2:00
for the parent meeting. Our children have to be picked up by 2:30 so this will
encourage parents to come early and attend the meeting. We are going to verbally
remind the parents of the meeting that morning. I would welcome any other ideas
from my colleagues. I am going to offer refreshments. I have invited my
supervisor and teachers to attend the parent meeting.
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Resources and
information I am seeking
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I am seeking
information that will support parents and children with special needs. They are
plenty of information from different organization but some of them want you to
pay for the information or donate money to their organization. The families
that I work with are low income of 5000-21000 a year. These children have no
private insurance and are on Medicaid.
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Resources and/or
information you have found helpful and insightful
1.
One of my
colleagues suggested giving a door prize to the teacher and assistance that had
the most parents to attend the parent meeting. One of her ideas was to have a
preplanned meeting for each month around the same time. This way parents can
plan for this meeting in advance.
2.
I have asked
parents questions about the services their child received and information they
would like to know. This information has encouraged me to focus on the parents
support and child’s service providers.
3.
I have shared
this information with teachers and special needs providers. They have given me
ideas to research on web sites.
4.
Good luck to my
colleagues on their presentation and Advocacy Planning.
My topic Gail is Advocating for the Entire Family of Autistic Children. I have goggled my topic and have found a really great site http://www.autismspeaks.org/family-services/community-connections/advocacy-can-make-all-difference. This site was helpful for me and my topic. Autistic Children and Special Needs Children are both very important to share with the entire family.
ReplyDeleteLinda Thanks for sharing this web site with me. I like your Advocate Plan. An autistic child affects the entire family. The whole family has to make adjustments in their schedule to accommodate for an autistic child. Autistic children need to remain on a schedule routine or it will affect their behavior. I am going to check out the web site you suggested. Thanks.
DeleteI feel you will get some great information from that site. I sure did. I was sure glad that I could be of help to you and your Advocacy Action Plan.
DeleteGail how about if you have another teacher maybe a floater stay with the children in another classroom and provide a snack to the children so the parents do not have to go home take their children seek outside sitter services. Remember most families once they go home they usually don’t come out.
ReplyDeleteGail make sure you present an agenda.
Gail attempt to seek services from your local government they tend to offer free services to families, or seek help from big hospitals like University of Chicago, or Rush offer services sometime on a sliding scale, or other hospitals in your area.
Gail because you are in a situation where the resources you are looking through require you to donate or pay how about seek the help of charities to help you pay the offset costs so you can offer services and educate the families you are helping.
Good Luck Gail O.