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[00:00:00] 400 IEP meetings about 80 per year. All the way from preschool iEP. All the way up through middle school. And then of course, through high school and 18 to 21 programs. I sat through more IEP. As an outpatient occupational therapist, and more than a few, when I worked in early intervention seven to 10 IDPs in a week during the busy seasons of IEP season. That’s a pretty good sample size. And what I started to notice was that some parents got most of what they asked for, for their child. And some didn’t get half that amount. And a lot of times that was with the same exact school IEP team. It wasn’t their circumstances. It wasn’t their child’s disability type or needs. I realized that it came down to four things that they were doing really well. That led them to these effective, amazing IEP is.
So my question for you today is do you have these four essential [00:01:00] skills for parent advocacy mastered? Let’s find out. And then we’re going to talk about if you need a little bit of help, how you can get help from the IEP lab, especially starting this week. So stick with me through this entire episode, as this is a limited time episode, it’s not going to be available for forever. I’m so excited to share this with you today. So stick with me.
You are listening to the parent IEP lab, the podcast that helps you get an effective IEP plan for your child so that you can get them supported and learning in school. I’m Beth LEAs and Feld occupational therapist, who started to notice trends in parents who got effective IEP for their kids without having to fight the school.
My mission is to help you learn the pillars of knowledge that I saw these effective parents use in their advocacy, and also to provide insight or knowledge from the school side, so that you have context to turn that into informed, intelligent questions. Then actually get you somewhere with a school IEP team, the business part of this podcast, the IEP lab focuses on the biggest parent opportunity that you [00:02:00] have: the IEP meeting, the ultimate parent IEP prep course prepares you for your next meeting. By helping you understand the system and your role in it, guiding you into narrowing down your priorities for the next year for your child.
And lastly, preparing you for common questions. The IEP team does ask you that ends up putting you on the spot.
The result of the ultimate parent IUP prep course is that you have your parent input plan. Well thought out in advance, you can share that with your IEP team before the meeting actually happens, and you can walk into that meeting, having confidence that you have prepared and you are understanding that system well, so that you can bring your best so that you can advocate for your child and get them well supported in the next year. So let’s dive into today’s topic and think about what we can change and tweak to get the right formula for success for your child to learn and grow in school by building your own advocacy skills. Welcome to the lab.
I’ve been mentioning and I’ve been hinting over the last week or so, but the doors to the ultimate parent IEP prep [00:03:00] course are officially open as of today. So I want to welcome you to check it out and we are going to talk about it at the end of this episode, too. So I typically do webinars to introduce people to my products, but I’m doing something out of the ordinary and doing it in podcast format so that I can actually teach you what the prep course is all about and have some really great takeaways for you that if you don’t join, you will still get a ton of value from this episode.
But if you are interested in joining me in the prep course, it is going to serve you year after year after year. So I’m so excited to get into this topic today, but if you can’t wait any longer and you want more information about the prep course, go ahead and click that link in your podcast player below this episode and check out more information about the prep course. And just so you know, coaching starts in about 10 days. Okay. Let’s get into the main value part of the episode.
And then we’ll talk about the prep course after that.
Okay. As I just mentioned. I’m a little bit out of my comfort zone today. And that’s because I [00:04:00] am divulging all of these secrets about the basis for the ultimate parent IEP prep course. And I think it’s really important that you understand what I’m about, what I actually teach in the prep course, which is my signature course and how that actually helps you prepare for an IEP meeting.
So what we’re going to do today is we’re going to go through the four skills or four themes that I saw in more than 400 IEP meetings that I sat in as I started to really pay attention to these amazing parent advocates who somehow got everybody excited about implementing this IEP. And we’re very, very open to communicating.
It all came from the parent side. I can’t wait to dive into these four themes with you.
So I mentioned that I’m an occupational therapist in the intro. And I mentioned that my undergraduate degree is in sociology, which is the study of groups of people. So way before I was navigational therapist. My mom was a voracious reader. She was a high school [00:05:00] English and French teacher. And she made me a huge reader when I was a kid too.
And I think it taught me to be empathetic because characters in a book, well, you get into their head, you know, their thoughts. You get a window into their actions and why they’re doing the things that they’re doing. And so I became fascinated with kind of studying like group dynamics and, and what works, what, when I say this and what happens when somebody has some tact, when they say something.
That response from the other person is very different. And so fast forward, you know, over the course of my first career, which as a therapeutic horseback riding instructor. And then I found OT through that. I started sitting in IEP meetings after being an outpatient therapist and I said, oh my gosh, like, there is major differences with the same school IEP team that some parents can just get the very best out of that team without.
Really seeming like they do anything different, but I started noticing trends when I sat through all of those IEP. And then I was like, [00:06:00] oh my gosh, okay. This is it. Like, this is, this is what works most of the time. And these are the essential skills of a parent advocate. And I started the IEP lab after.
Mm, gosh, like four, three or four years of being in the schools at that point. And I just got really frustrated because there is this inequality of information. Between schools and parents, you know, when you work for a district, if you have any question, you know, you kind of go up the ladder and you ask the special education director, that’s where the buck stops. And then if they don’t know the answer to that, then they ask their legal team. And for a parent it’s like, well, I don’t even feel comfortable asking this case manager, who’s being a pain.
For information. And so it it’s really, really bothered me that we would come in and say all these big words and not even realize it. I mean, there’s a ton, a ton, a ton, a ton. Of teachers and therapists out there who really [00:07:00] care about your kid, but they may not be keeping up with trends as much as you are as a parent,
they might be super frustrated or super overworked or they’re exhausted, or they had 10 IDPs in a week. And your child’s IEP just got clumped in mythos and that’s really unfortunate circumstances, right? So I’m coming from the basis of a team that might be stressed, especially this year, but when the parent has a really good approach to the team,
It makes all the difference that you stand out. Right? because you’re bringing the human back in, you’re keeping the child at the center of the meeting. And so that’s what I started to see in all of these meetings that even with very tired team, even with conflict in the past, that there were certain things that parents could do to really push past that and get to the bottom of getting their child, the right services and the right placements.
And something that they were comfortable with that’s going to take them further, take them closer to where they want their child to be able to [00:08:00] be.
So I started the podcast and I think I interviewed, oh gosh, like 20 or 30 parents. One-on-one. And if you were one of those parents, thank you so much for meeting with me. I know at least a couple are still listening to the podcast. So thank you so much for taking the chance on me at the very beginning. When I had like nothing, right. I didn’t have a website. I didn’t have anything.
And I started to make a PO. And I started to pick apart. The hardest parts of parent advocacy, and so coming in with this knowledge of, of going through the IEP on my side, and then getting to talk one-on-one with, I don’t know, 20 or 30 parents on that side, I started to piece together that the biggest frustration and the biggest stress of the year was really about around the IEP meeting.
And I think that’s pretty. You might say, ah, yeah, that’s pretty obvious, but I didn’t really understand how much stress was being built up before you actually got to the table. And so when I started thinking about it, I started breaking it down and saying, okay, what is the hardest [00:09:00] part of coming to the table and not feeling heard?
Was obviously a huge one. And I was very surprised to find that many of you really felt like the team didn’t know your child. And so I started thinking about these parents that were successful, what did they do? What did they do that made us understand them as a family and them as a person to be able to design this really good IEP and what made us super comfortable with this particular parent so that if something wasn’t working, we could change things.
And I think that’s the most important thing ever. So let’s kind of dive into the four patterns or four skills that I saw in these parent advocates. And I will say. And these actually came from a lot of elementary school parents. But a lot of these. A lot of these themes, I noticed very crystal clear when parents got to the middle school level because they were no longer newbies on the system. And so, yes, that’s the first thing that we’re going to talk about, [00:10:00] but they were no longer newbies of the system. They kind of knew how it worked a little bit.
But then they started to get kind of frustrated or things would come up in middle school is such a different beast. That things would come up and I would see a lot more conflict in those middle school IEP meetings, because placement was a bigger thing because inclusion came up a lot more.
So I started to notice really amazing things happen in that middle school level with these parents who were more familiar with what was going to happen. And so a lot of these themes, you know, came from the more experienced parents, you know, fifth and sixth grade seventh. You know, and on, into the high school, high school seem to like calm down a little bit of the stress. Um,
For the most part, but it was like those later elementary school and early middle school parents. That really, really, oh my gosh. Like it was in my face, like what they were doing. Um, and there were some solid trends there that really got them and the right tracking got their child what they needed. So let’s [00:11:00] dive into the first pattern. So this one, as I kind of hinted at this one is all about parents who knew enough about the system that they asked. Really good questions. And I remember.
There was one particular parent who had a very clear vision for her child. So that’s absolutely a theme too, is like, you kind of have an idea of where you want them to go
and so she came to the table and she was able to ask some really good questions because her child was getting intervention, but wasn’t really getting intervention for the right parts of things. So it was a reading kind of issue she could read okay. She just couldn’t understand what she was reading.
And so this parent dug through all of the paperwork that she could actually understand. She had some background in understanding the paperwork, which was very. Very beneficial for her. But she brought that in and she said, Hey, I’ve gone through all of the past IEP meetings. This is what’s missing. And she said, what can we do about this? Are you addressing this? Like, what does this [00:12:00] look like?
And so she wasn’t accusational because we were the middle school team. We hadn’t had her kid yet. So it wasn’t that she was accusing us of not doing anything, but she was genuinely asking, what do we do about this? Because this is what’s missing and bringing it to the team to say, Hey, I have this background knowledge about how this is supposed to work. I see this issue. What can we do about it?
And she immediately kind of triggered everybody’s mind to say, oh, how do we do that? Oh, you’re right. That’s not the issue. And that’s what’s being addressed. So how can we change that to really help her access? Yes, her education by being able to understand what she’s doing right. So these are questions like, oh, are we supposed to talk about placement now? Or do we save that for later? What does a school day look like? What kinds of things do you work on in your intervention?
I have read that X happens next. Is that what I should expect next in the process? Or is there anything that you want to let me know about? What’s coming up. And [00:13:00] you have to have some kind of context to be able to ask really good questions. Right. And of course there’s a lot more amazing questions when it comes down to your specific situation.
This also just takes confidence that you can be in a place and again, manage your emotions, which we talked about last week. And yes, that episode is coming. I promise about emotions and advocacy. But this also takes a bit of confidence on your part and say, Hey, I’m pretty sure this isn’t the way this is supposed to go. Can you explain to me what’s happening?
So here’s the second one and I already alluded to it. And the second theme is that these parents.
Had at least a professional, not necessarily buddy-buddy relationship with at least one team member on that team. And this is key. I cannot overstress how important this actually is. I cannot emphasize this enough. Okay. So this actually happens between IEP meetings. Because you want to have a lot of micro advocacy throughout the entire [00:14:00] year to spread out that stress from the one meeting. And you want to build that relationship over time, right? This, again, it doesn’t have to be buddy, buddy. You don’t have to bring donuts to the meeting. You don’t have to do any of that.
I have seen this work with so many parents that do not do any of that. They don’t bring treats. They don’t do any of that. But when there’s parent teacher conferences, they stick their head in our office and they say, Hey, how are you doing? I heard that my kid did this with you the other day. And that was really cool.
You know, it just has to be this little tiny build, a relationship to make you seem like you’re approachable and that that person can feel comfortable enough to be really straight out, honest with you. Okay. So we do talk about this in the prep course, even though we focus on this in phase two of the IEP cycle, which is actually the time in between IEP meetings.
But you want to do these micro advocacy actions between IEP is, and really it takes less than five minutes. You can do once a month [00:15:00] and it still makes an amazing impact on your ability to advocate for your child.
I have even seen, we were in a team meeting. And this particular parent had a relationship with the case manager, which happened to be the special education teacher. And I saw that this special education teacher stuck her neck out. To our special education director and this was not a teacher who was into conflict at all. Like, no, she was just amazing to work under. She did not do conflict.
But she stuck her neck out for a parent and for a kid. When the special education director did not want to grant a request. And she stood up for that parent and that kid and it got granted. So I can not overemphasize this enough, that just one little relationship. One little, you know, one person on the team, one little relationship has, has an immense impact on your ability to advocate because
you have somebody on the [00:16:00] inside, right? And it’s so, so important and so powerful. Okay. So the third theme is knowing what your possible actions are. If it doesn’t go the way that you’re expecting, or you want it to go. Now here’s the thing by the first theme, knowing the system a little bit. You can kind of judge. What is typically granted? What do they typically offer here? What are things that I can nudge and push a little bit more to get the support? Or how can I ask this of the team?
To have them be able to be creative. And can we, you know, bring in peers to help or can we do this creative thing to help, you know, that comes from the first theme.
It’s just understanding the system a little bit to know what you can ask for, and what’s pushing the envelope a little bit, but what you feel like they could be able to do the third theme is knowing what the possible actions are. So again, if you feel like your, so if you feel like your child’s rights are.
Being denied. If you feel [00:17:00] like FAPE is being denied, then you have that context from the first theme, but now you can come out of that IEP meeting or you can go into that IEP meeting and say, Oh, okay. These are my options. If this doesn’t go the way that I think, and this is actually the issue, because so many parents don’t understand the system enough to say.
Oh, I think they’re denying my kid FAPE or, oh, I think they’re not offering this particular situation of like putting them in gen ed with special supports because they have something else that they would rather put them in. Right. So there’s that kind of knowledge and understanding that comes
from the first theme, but then this third theme and this, you know, the examples that I give of course are going to vary widely depending on your situation. But here’s just some of the options that you have if you’re having trouble, you know, with a case manager specifically, or if something isn’t going right.
You can go up the administration ladder and you can have a conversation with the higher [00:18:00] ups, like the special education director or the coordinator, or whoever is above them. Right. And that comes from knowledge of the system. And you can change schools to a charter or another type of school. You can pull your child from the school completely, and you can unschool some states. They can still have an IEP. They can still have IEP services, even if they’re homeschooled. So you have that option. You can get an advocate,
you can get a special education attorney. You can get an IEP meeting facilitator, you can file a state complaint and you can go to due process. Right? These are. All options
That are outlined in the ultimate parent IEP prep course. So if I’m going too fast, they’re all in there. You just need to join the course. But the point is that when parents know their options, you no longer feel like you’re backed into a corner. You have the ultimate decision of where your child goes to school and you do have options. Now I understand.
That many of you are like both of our parents work or maybe I’m a single mom and they have to go to school. [00:19:00] Well, that that’s totally okay. That’s when you can get an advocate, you can get an attorney, you can get a facilitator, like there’s so many ways that you can. Work with what you got. Right. But you still have options in the support that you can pull in. And that again, just gives you confidence.
That you have options that you are not backed into a corner that you don’t have any options of how to move forward. You can still try to advocate in these different ways. Do I wish it wasn’t like that? Yes, I do. I don’t. I really get frustrated with how much effort it takes you to be able to advocate. This is very frustrating to me.
But I want to make sure that, but I can’t change the archaic system that’s happening. So this is how I can see to build up your skills so that you can navigate the system that we’re stuck with in a very, very appropriate and effective way so that you don’t feel like you’re backed into a corner. Okay.
Now here’s the fourth one. These parents in particular. Knew how to communicate their priorities clearly [00:20:00] and concisely. Meaning. In a paragraph. Okay. Not in a seven page letter, which I see a lot of the times in a paragraph or two communicate their priorities for their child. And very clearly. Uh, almost like almost like as a hint.
Explain their expectations of the IEP team and helping their child get to that place. Okay. So this also, I hear so many parents say. My IEP team does not know my child at all. This is your opportunity because you do know your child really well to really outline their strengths, to outline what is relevant to outline what is important to you and to your child.
So that this helps the IEP team actually get to know your child, if you feel like they don’t. And again, the key here is really being concise, which means short, short to the point. Very nicely put. Not running on very organized language. Okay. This is [00:21:00] the crux. Of the parent IEP prep course.
Of the ultimate parent IEP prep course is developing this parent input plan. And yes, we talk about this all a lot with what’s supposed to be in there. And how you make it concise because we go through step two, which is trying to determine your priorities for the next year one or two. You might convince me to do three, but just one or two,
here’s the other thing that happens and this happened to me personally. I had a middle school parent come in. I was thinking that I was going to discharge them from occupational therapy altogether. I just didn’t see a need for it anymore. I was pulling them from academics. I didn’t want them to miss academics because I didn’t have a really good reason to pull them from academics. They were just kind of maintaining with me and I didn’t even know what I was supposed to be doing with them because I inherited this IEP from elementary school.
Right. So I came in, I was like, I think I’m going to discharge. I have no idea what their OT need [00:22:00] is. I just really don’t feel like they need me anymore. And then the parent came in with a vision statement. And it wasn’t a formal vision statement. It was just something they said during the meeting.
And they said, well, we’re planning on sending them to this post-secondary program that is with UNC, which is a local college. And it was like, oh my gosh. Yeah, they have a checklist for entry and yeah, they aren’t able to do these three skills that directly fall under the occupational therapy realm. And what happened was I didn’t end up dropping them from services because I understood where we were going. And then I could say, oh yeah, this is my role to get them there. And that’s my responsibility to help the team. Build this in this skill so that we get them to that posting secondary program.
This fourth skill is imperative. Communicating that in a very concise way is so. Important when you do it too long. Then nothing happens. You like put all this work into this seven page thing, and then you submit it. [00:23:00] And then without a directive and without it being very clear and concise, then nothing happens. You just don’t feel heard because they don’t know what to do with it.
So hopefully that makes sense. So these were the four pillars that I saw in these meetings. These are the four skills that I saw
and all of these parents who did this so amazingly, and the result was that everybody came out of that meeting energized really excited about the IEP that we just planned. And also if things were working six months later that we thought would work. It was just an easy amendment. It was an easy discussion because we had that relationship with these parents and they were approachable to us.
Now these four pillars are not anything new under the sun. Right. That’s the crazy part. And it’s not necessarily that they’re really difficult or complex to do, but it does take some help and support to get there. So if you feel like, oh, okay. These four [00:24:00] pillars. I’ve got it. This is super helpful.
I’m going to do this from now on and like done, I can do this then that’s amazing. Go forth. Let me know how it goes. Keep me in the loop on social media, send me DMS and messages. And let me know how this helped you. But if you need more support in getting there, if you’re saying, man, I really struggle with this piece or man, I really have a hard team and I’m struggling with what to do now because I feel like I’m hitting a wall.
Then guess what? This is the time where we get to talk about the ultimate parent IEP prep course, because like I said, the doors are open today and there’s bonuses for joining this particular week. So go ahead and keep listening. If you feel like you want to explore a little bit of help and what that looks like.
So, again, this is your official invitation to the ultimate parent IEP prep course. And the link to find out more information and register is right below this podcast in your podcast player.
This course gives you [00:25:00] everything you need to complete your parent input plan. Would you take with you to your next IEP meeting to a, not get put on the spot? I hate that it drives me crazy. And then B prepare your parent input statement so that you are clear and concise with all of your expectations and support requests for your child for the year.
If you are stressed at all by an upcoming IEP meeting, even if. It’s next year, next school year. This is the time to check out the IEP prep course, because as I just announced if you choose the supported option of the parent IEP prep course.
That you get to join the office hours. Part of the prep course, every single time that we launch it, which is twice a year. So you have two options for the course. You can do a self study version of the course, which doesn’t include personal feedback or coaching, and you can choose the supported version, which does include. Additional coaching support. We do that in once a week on Thursday evenings, and then you also have access to the jot form so that you can submit [00:26:00] things like parent vision statements, or accommodations or goals for me to look over. And that’s a private way of getting feedback so that is included in the support version.
So both of these versions, the actual course is presented to you in a learning portal where you are taken through the process of learning just enough information of the, about the four pillars. So that you gain skills to approach your IEP meeting with confidence, you’re working on building all for these skills.
The videos have subtitles transcripts are provided. I wanted to make it as accessible as possible. And the really cool thing that we did a couple months ago. Last time we launched it in the fall was then I added a private podcast. So what happened is I took all of the audio from the video files and I dropped them into a private podcast. You get your exclusive link when you register, that’s just related to your email address.
And you click on that and you listen to it in apple podcasts or Spotify or whatever podcast player you’re listening to this right now. [00:27:00] So that you can listen to it like a podcast when you’re, you know, dropping off or picking up or you’re going to work, or you’re doing chores around the house. Whenever you typically listen to podcasts, you can listen to the course and the course is made up of 70 videos.
Uh, but they’re all about three minutes in length. So if you get interrupted, like so many of us parents do. Or if you’re like, oh my gosh, my mind wandered. I need to go back to where she started this topic. It’s only three minutes, right? So I tried to make it as accessible as possible. You also get a workbook completed with all the visuals we use in the course, like the IEP data funnel and worksheets to remind you of the audio video content and assist you and really putting your parent input plan down on paper. And really determining your priorities.
The supported version of the course includes
eight sessions or two months of both the weekly coaching calls, Thursday evenings, which take pre-submitted questions and live questions and is recorded so that you can listen leader. And the supported version also includes two months [00:28:00] of private feedback support through that jot forum. I mentioned that earlier.
So you can submit a combinations or goals or your vision statement to get feedback on it within 48 business hours. So for two months you get that support.
I was really thrilled to work with Sarah, which is one of my parents who went through last summer. And so I’m going to read her, quote her feedback to me. So she said, whether you’re just starting out in the IEP world or you’ve had an IEP for years, I think every single parent of a child with special needs will find this course incredibly informative and helpful.
And then Brandy, it was so fun to see Brandy because she had an older child, she had a child that was transitioning into high school. And so what she said was she said her favorite part was stepped to developing the parent input statement. She said it helped her use that file and resources to actually work with her 15 year old.
And help him learn how to self-advocate. So it was really funny because she told us the story in office hours. Where she had gone through the step of the course. And then she came out [00:29:00] with Nino her vision statement for him. And what she was going to say at the parent input at the meeting. And he looked at it and he said, no, you’re totally wrong, mom.
She just laughed. She’s had such a good reaction to it. But what happened was, she said, well, then you do it. And she opened up the step two of the course and he actually went through it. So what happened was he learned to build his own vision statement of what he wanted. He had a new found determination of why he needed to learn these things. And he learned how to advocate for himself by really determining his own priorities.
And she couldn’t have been more thrilled with his reaction to the course. So I wasn’t designing that in the beginning. I wasn’t expecting that. That to happen, but it made me so happy that not only did it help her as a parent, but it also helped her child develop those advocacy skills. And the cool thing is you have access to the course for life. So if you’re like, oh, my child is only 10, like that’s not appropriate. Well, maybe there’ll be ready for it [00:30:00] in a couple of years, then you still have access to the course and a couple of years.
So there’s nothing to lose, really, because you keep getting updates to the course. As we learn more, as we learn. As we learn more as the iep system changes and so that was so fun to really have her use that with her child as well
Now as far as cost goes, I do try to make it as accessible as possible. So as I was going through Of what the value of the course was. If you do the self study version, that value is $1,250 for the self study.
And the supported version is worth $1,760 for this supported version, with all the coaching and the private feedback, all of that. But if you have been around the IEP lab at all, but if you’ve been around the IEP lab at all, you will know that my mission is to make it as affordable as possible for parents.
Because I know that you likely have some financial stress. And so I try to keep that as low as possible so that I can still really focus on [00:31:00] you being in the course and bring you high quality information that is informed and evidence-based and amazing. So I try to make it as accessible as I possibly can. And that’s why it’s never discounted because it’s this low as I possibly can go. So for the self study version, it is offered at $179, or you have the option of selecting the payment plan, which is three payments of $53. And the supported version is just $249.
Again, that value was $1,760. We’re charging 249 or three payments of $83. And it was looking at my records the other day, I was like, oh, a hundred percent, a hundred percent of parents have chosen the three payment option. So it really is there for you to take advantage of so that you can really spread out those payments and have it be more accessible for you.
Now, if you are listening to this the day that it drops on Tuesday, or if you are listening on [00:32:00] Wednesday, then you specifically are in luck because if you join the parent IEP prep course by the end of Wednesday, that’s midnight mountain standard time. The fast action bonus that you will get for joining is our goal formula spreadsheet.
And so what happened was I had a ton. Of questions about goals, what is supposed to be in a goal. And so what I did was I looked up the standards and I break down the goal examples into components.
So, what you get with this is. You get an Excel spreadsheet. And in it, what it has is each component broken down. And then you also have goal examples for each grade level based on the standards so that you get to plug and play and kind of play around with what it’s supposed to look like so that you actually understand what is supposed to be in your child’s goals.
And if you are being asked to write goals for your child, Then you can again, plug and play the skill first that you make in your priorities with step two of the course, then you can determine those skills and those priorities you plugged them in. And then you make sure that you have all of the [00:33:00] other components that are essential for building effective goals for your child. So you will get that if you join the ultimate parent IUP prep course by the end of Wednesday. So go ahead and click that link. Below this podcast in your podcast player, or you can go to the IEP lab.com/course to find out more information and you can register right on that page .
And then you can choose if you want the self study version or if you want the supported version. And then of course, if you’re going to take advantage of the payment plan as well, which I highly recommend.
So that’s all my sales pitch. Please let me know in the DMS on social media. If you’re on my email list, you will get kind of a summary of what we talked about in this particular podcast about the ultimate parent IEP prep course, but all of this information is nicely organized and it’s super pretty. In my opinion, if you just go to the IEP lab.com/course, and remember if you join before the end of Wednesday,
Then you get the goal formula, spreadsheet bonus, and then you get all of the other bonuses that we’re offering until the [00:34:00] doors closed next Tuesday. So you definitely want to take advantage. There’s a lot of juicy bonuses going on, but this goal formula spreadsheet is the best. So you don’t want to miss out on that.
So remember you have so much power to be on the offense when it comes to advocating. Even if you have a really hard to work with team, you still have options. And I would love to be the one the kelps to get you out of that corner that you feel like you’re backed into
and start getting the best support for your child. Your child’s future is in the balance. And again, you get lifetime access to this course so that you can go back to it again and again and again. So there’s really no drawbacks to joining right now. And I’m so excited. I cannot wait to see you inside the course. Like I said, in the beginning, this podcast is only going to be available for a couple of days.
So once coaching starts, it will disappear. So if you have someone that would benefit from knowing the four pillars and even maybe be interested in the prep course, go ahead and share this episode with them. And. [00:35:00] Tell them to listen right away before it disappears on them. And Hey, thank you so much for listening until the end of this podcast. I typically do not sell anything on the podcast. I try to keep it information only, but like I said, in the beginning, just webinars are so hard.
Because we are so busy and podcasts are just so easy to play in the car, or while you’re doing chores that I wanted to try this out. So, let me know what you think. Send me an email back DME on social media. Let me know how you think of this format so that I can bring you the education that you need.
And you can decide if you want to join us, which I really hope that you do. So before I let you go, I’m just going to read two more testimonials that I have that of course are on the information page as well. And this came from Chris. She said, when I clicked the purchase button yesterday, I felt a huge release of anxiety. Having audio recordings available is so helpful and I felt supported right away.
As a bonus. I got my husband to listen to it once he got home, [00:36:00] just that alone is amazing. And this last one is I also got the best compliment. At the end of the meeting, the specialist services coordinators said, you do such an amazing job advocating for your daughter. I actually look forward to meeting with you.
She says, thank you so much for helping me to educate myself on this process. I’m so glad I found your business and podcast. I’m so excited for you to come join so I can share your results with other parents as well. And you can tell me all about your amazing IEP experience.
In getting your child, the support that they deserve. Thank you so much for listening and we’ll talk to you soon. Bye.