Parents of Children with Special Needs
Calaveras County Special Education / SELP hosts: Community Advisory Committee (CAC), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 from 5:00 p.m.-7: 30 pm Calaveras County Office of Education, 185 S. Main Street, Angels Camp, California. Guest speaker: Carol Vance, LMFT, behavior intervention specialist, "which thrilled the youth?" ** Co-sponsored with First 5 Calaveras Call 1-888-787-3654 to register. Childcare will be provided. Contact Lorie to reserve a spot for child care.The CAC is a group of concerned and loving parents, educators and representatives of local organizations that are interested in providing quality education for children with special needs. Please contact Lorie at 736-6016 or lwise@ccoe.k12.ca.us Wise for more information.Santa Barbara County SELPA | Our Special Families Village
SEL what? Yea, I know. That’s what I said about 15 years ago.
SELPA stands for Special Education Local Plan Area and this is the link for the one here in Santa Barbara County:
http://sbcselpa.org/Home.aspx
When Matthew was 3 we were advised to enroll him in a Special Ed Pre-school program that was administered by the county. Matthew had just been diagnosed with Autism and his Father, Steve, and I were still shell-shocked.Throughout the process I heard acronyms like SELPA but they didn’t really mean that much to me. I listened to our Service Providers as though they knew everything and had all the answers. We latched onto them as though they were our Salvation and Matthew’s Saviors.
And at the time we didn’t really have much choice. There wasn’t the proliferation of information on the Internet that we have today. We could, of course, get information from the SELPA office (an hour away from us). We could call or write.
But we trusted. We trusted the experts to guide us. And they did. And they did a good job considering…
Considering that they have limited budgets, limited staff and huge caseloads.
I really thought they were giving us complete information when we would meet with them. I really thought that when I asked a question of them that I got all of the information available. The truth is that I got all of the information that they could give me and rarely is that the same thing.
There are a lot of factors involved and I don’t believe anyone ever maliciously kept information or resources from us. But they have their agenda, their point of view, their own perceptions and we have ours. Often they are not in sync.
I remember the first time I was referred to the SELPA website. Matthew was already in Junior High. I had a question on busing and was told to check out the Parent Handbook and the Procedural Handbook.
I felt like I was drowning in carefully worded legalese. All I wanted was help in dealing with a schedule change and I couldn’t get any cooperation from the Transportation Office.
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