Special Education Law Attorney Lawrence W. Berliner, and Dr. Marcia Eckerd, a licensed psychologist, will be the featured speakers at a workshop for parents titled “Finding Your Voice as a Parent: Navigating Through the Process of Obtaining an Appropriate Education.”
The free workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Villa Maria School, 161 Sky Meadow Drive, Stamford, Conn.
This workshop will be hosted by Villa Maria School, a Stamford private co-educational day school for students with learning disabilities in grades kindergarten through ninth grade. Villa Maria is dedicated to developing the full potential of students with learning disabilities, accomplishing this by providing a very specialized, highly individualized, and ultra-supportive learning environment.
This workshop is devoted to helping parents acquire the knowledge, understanding, tools and strategies they need to impact their child’s educational experience. With a combined total of 60 years of experience between them, Attorney Berliner and Dr. Eckerd will help guide parents through the process of special education. Attorney Berliner, whose law practice is located in Westport, Conn. will speak to parents whose children have been struggling in school and how to obtain appropriate education during the school year and beyond. Dr. Eckerd, whose psychology practice is in Norwalk, Conn., will empower parents to help students with strategies for executive function.
- Student’s basic educational rights
- What to do when your child is struggling in school and is achieving below his or her potential
- Turning Point: the road ahead for parents when their child’s rights are denied by the school
Dr. Eckerd will focus on:
- Demystifying Executive Function (planning, prioritizing and organization, etc…)
- How Executive Functions are embedded into the academic workload – from reading to writing to math etc…
- How to write executive functions into the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Goals and Objectives
To learn more about the workshop, and to register, please contact Stephen Bennhoff, Assistant Head of School for Admissions and External Relations at (203)-322-5886, ext. 104 or sbennhoff@villamariaedu.org .
Please visit the websites www.villamariaedu.org or www.berlinerspecialedlaw.com for more information.