2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
2/28/2017 | 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM | Strengthen Your Advocacy Know How! How to Advocate for Your Student Without Jeopardizing Your Job | Hanover B
Strengthen Your Advocacy Know How! How to Advocate for Your Student Without Jeopardizing Your Job
For the past 5 years I have opened my advocacy and IDEA training sessions to professionals. So many times I hear the same struggle, “how can I advocate for a student when it puts my job in jeopardy?” The process of becoming a student advocate is not a quick fix, it will take time. This session will explore successful tips that can put an educator in the position of being a successful advocate for their students. The techniques learned go well beyond the words to say. IT stars with developing relationships within your school and becoming very involved and aware in the process. This session can be useful information for anyone working with a child received services for their disability, including all educators birth through 21. It is especially useful for those educators who want to be able to successfully advocate for their students, without jeopardizing their position. This is not a quick fix session; it is a session that opens ideas to the educator to begin positioning themselves in the district to be viewed as an expert, hence allowing them to successfully advocate for their students. This session reinforces the fact that the special education teachers oath is to first and foremost protect the student. How can a professional do this, while protecting their job?
- Participant will be provided with up to 10 strategies to position themselves successfully in the school.
- Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to build relationships with other school personnel so that successful cohesion can exist.
- Participants will gain understanding of: problem solving, planning, practicality, participation, passion, preparedness and positive influence.
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Presenters/Authors
Andrea Marwah
(), IL Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side, executivedirector@ilhandsandvoices.com;
Andrea Marwah received her BA degree in Psychology from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Since her daughter was diagnosed with hearing loss in 2002, she has taken a special interest in educating parents and professionals on matters concerning ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act), IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - special education rights, and advocacy for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Andrea presents both locally and nationally on matters pertaining to advocacy and IDEA; deafness/hearing loss when combined with other disabilities; the impact of deafness/hearing loss; socialization and many other topics surrounding parenting and working with children who are deaf and hard of hearing. She works for the Illinois Department of Human Services, Illinois School for the Deaf as an outreach trainer and consultant for families and professionals who work with children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired or deaf-blind. She is also a parent advocate supporting families in Illinois at their child’s IEP meeting or behind the scenes preparing them to attend the meeting and advocate themselves. Andrea is the Executive Director at Illinois Hands & Voices and has been a leader with them since 2010, began as the IDEA liaison for the Guide By Your Side Program in 2009 where she provides unbiased information and one-on-one advocacy and IDEA support to families who have children who are deaf/hard of hearing and is a national trainer for the Hands & Voices ASTra Training Program and a member of the Hands & Voices speakers bureau. She works closely with Designated Service Coordinators providing group training and individual consulting. These are trained individuals who work directly with infants and toddlers in Illinois birth to three who have a diagnosis involving vision, hearing or a combination of both in her state early intervention program. Andrea works as a liaison with the Early Intervention Training Program on issues surrounding deafness and hearing loss. She sits on numerous committees both locally and nationally. Andrea also served for six years on the Advisory Commission on Disabilities in her home town of Naperville, where she lives with her husband Ajay and 3 children Samantha, Julia and Andrew.
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