How to Be an Effective Participant in Special Education Team Meetings

This book will give you the practical tools and techniques you need to
participate effectively in your child's SPED meetings.
Full of suggestions, templates, and proven strategies that both research
and experience have found productive, this guide will help parents be actively
involved in SPED team meetings and work collaboratively with educators.
Dr. Robert Scobie has spent his entire career working with children
and parents in academic settings. He has served as a high school
teacher, principal of a K-8 school, a special educator at elementary
and high school levels, assistant professor and chairman of an
education department preparing prospective teachers, and an
adjunct professor in a special education graduate program. Most
recently as an educational advocate for families of special needs
children, he has used his professional knowledge and experience
to help parents to be strong advocates, to see themselves as having
valuable knowledge about their child, and to develop a collaborative
relationship with school staff.