Community Corner
Special Education and Effective Progress
What is it? How do you measure it? How does it affect your child's education and services? And what recourse do you have when it's not being met or used correctly?
Learn:
- How to know if your child is making effective progress
- What to do if your child is not making progress
- How to write and measure IEP performance goals
- How to monitor services and evaluate progress reports
- When to re-evaluate for what and why
Presenter Dr. Susan Brefach is a Lexington-based neuropsychologist with over 30 years of experience working with children with learning difficulties; developmental, emotional, or behavior problems; ADD/ADHD; and Autism Spectrum disorders. She has recently published a parent’s “how to” manual, No Parent Left Behind; Navigating the Special Education Universe. Copies of her book will be for sale at the event. It can also be purchased through her website, www.susanbrefach.com or through Amazon.
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Sponsored by the Hamilton Wenham Public
Library and the Hamilton Wenham Special Education Parent Advisory Council. The Hamilton-Wenham
SEPAC is open to all parents or guardians of children with learning, neurological, physical, psychological, emotional or cognitive disabilities, as well as other interested parties. The PAC also advises the school committee and school officials in the planning, development, and evaluation of special education programs and offers education, networking and support to parents and guardians of children with learning differences and disabilities. For more information, please call 978-468-6246, email viviennegirl@comcast.net or see our website at www.hwsepac.org.
