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Just as a word of advice to parents, in most cases, you're going to still be in that school after the IEP meeting. And you want to maintain your

relationships. You want to have as positive a relationship as you possibly can with

with all the school staff. So whether it's an advocate or an attorney, you

want that meeting to be as collaborative as possible, even if you've had some problems or some things that you don't think have gone right,

you want to try and mend those differences rather than exacerbate those differences. performing and supporting parents raising differently wire kids.

My name is Debbie Reber and I'm the host of the show and today we're going to do a deep dive into

the subject of advocacy, specifically advocating for our unique learners in school.

To talk us through this big subject is former educator and now current special needs advocate

Rich Weinfeld.

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