This advocacy guide can be used by parents when their child is starting a new school, or at the beginning of an IEP meeting. Parents can either use the template to enter relevant information about their child, or they can use the ideas in the template to write their own letter.
An instructional Advocacy Guide is provided below, followed by templates that you can customize for you and your child. In this guide, the bolded words indicate where you should put your own information when completing the templates.
The first template, "Advocacy Notes to Guide your School Meetings" is for you to use as a reminder of what to say during the meeting. The second page of this document is for your notes and reminders of the examples that you are going to use in the discussion.
The next template, "Advocacy Letter for School File" is a template for you to fill in, sign and hand in together with F-Words tools for your child's file.