Student-Led IEP Process: What’s In It for Schools/Educators?

Supporting a student’s involvement in their IEP process helps you:

• Have a greater sense of collaboration, partnership, and effective engagement with all IEP team members
• Be more culturally aware and responsive with the student and family
• Support the student to be more successful in their classroom learning, take ownership of their education, and gain needed skills for their future.
• Feel less tension in IEP meetings and get to know and understand the student
• Enjoy the student’s ability to showcase their growth, self-advocacy, and personal vision
• Use the IEP process as a teaching tool in skill development and the transition process for the student.

Student-Led IEP Process: What’s In It for Families?

Supporting your child to lead their own IEP process helps you:

• Understand the IEP process
• Increase your input, and your child’s ideas, in the IEP process
• Build partnerships with the entire IEP team
• Grow your advocacy skills and your child’s self-advocacy skills
• See your child’s current growth and envision the road ahead
• Show your child’s abilities and keep the focus on your child’s plan for their future