Parent Leaders Talk About Special Education Parent Groups
v Improved
Special Education Services for children with disabilities.
v Parent groups enhance
collaboration between parents and educators, promotes communication, and
information sharing about district-wide successes as well as needs. This is a
low cost strategy that will improve academic achievement.
v Provides a way for parents of children with special needs to become
involved, to assist each other by sharing knowledge and resources.
v Offers an opportunity to form a Special Education Parent Advisory
Council (SEPAC), which increases meaningful parent involvement with
administration via regularly scheduled meetings, and provides the ability to
give input about family concerns about students with disabilities.
v Parent groups are able to obtain written responses to their concerns
and requests - with an agreed-upon timeframe for implementation of resolutions
of the issues.
v Parent participation in Special Education Self Assessment Process.
v Opportunity to address achievement gaps between learners with a
disability and learners without a disability.