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Online Class: Parent Advocacy in Special Education: Strategies, Supports and Quality Control

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Course Description

This course presents information to help parents empower themselves to effectively advocate for their children with disabilities and to monitor and improve the quality of the programs developed for children and youth with autism spectrum disorders.

Course Lessons

Unit 1: Overview of Parent Support and Advocacy - Being an effective advocate for a child with a disability requires skill and determination. The 6 units in this module will enable you to advocate effectively, promote equality and increase the quality of care to people with disabilities.
Unit 2: Give Me Context: A Brief History of Civil Rights Advocacy in the United States - In this unit you will learn about the fight for equality that women, Black Americans and individuals with disabilities endured in the United States enabling parents to advocate for educational rights for their children with disabilities.
Unit 3: Know Thyself: Communication Towards Positive Change - This unit outlines interpersonal skills essential for effective advocacy. Proficient communication, negotiation and active listening skills are all addressed to empower you to become a successful advocate.
Unit 4: Skills for Survival: Documentation and Problem Solving - In this unit specific strategies and tactics for effective advocacy are presented. You will learn how to develop a Master Plan and an Action Plan, start a "paper trail", learn letter writing skills, and begin to build your own advocacy library.
Unit 5: Knowledge is Power: Where To Get It and How To Use It - This unit contains an overview of the federal laws that enable access to education for individuals with disabilities, including state-related specifics. Special education terminology and basic standardized testing procedures are also presented.
Unit 6: Where To Turn: Parent Supports and Self-Advocacy - In this unit, parent networking groups will be presented as an example of the integral role parents play in continuing advocacy efforts. Then, the self-advocacy or People First Movement will be outlined.

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