Enisting and Providing Support: Blog 4

• Questions you have with which your colleagues may be able to provide help and support

  What is the best way to present my Action Plan to my group?

• Resources and information you are seeking

   I am seeking information about where can parents go to get resources about least restricted environments in Chicago besides the three downtown?

• Resources and/or information you have found helpful and insightful

  The website that was useful was http://www.ounceofprevention.org, the Look What I Can Do folder connected with the Illinois Board of Education, http://www.isbe.state.il.us/spec-ed/html/lre.htm, communicating with parents and co-workers that deal with children with disabilities/special needs.

Blog 3-Personal Advocacy Journey

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you" Mother Teresa

The main thing that inspires me is how children and parents will benefit from my advocacy plan. My action plan consist of helping special needs children and their families with better resources for least restricted environments. I feel good knowing that the parents will have a better idea of what to expect and meaningful ways of helping their children. The one challenge, I feel about this topic would be the words special needs. This is a touchy topic and some people or families want their children to be on the same developmental level as other children.

I believe, by providing enough evidence to parents about how each child develop and learn differently would help me overcome this challenge. Another effective method to overcome my challenge would be making it realistic. This also can help others with their plans. Anyone that have pointers and recommendations for my action plan I will greatly accept them.