Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy – The Special Education Survival Guide Pete and Pam Wright provide you with a clear roadmap to effective advocacy for your child. You will learn about your child’s disability and educational needs, how to organize your child’s file and develop a master plan. You’ll learn about conflict, negotiating, creating paper [...] Read more »
SLI Research, Education, Advocacy
Since it’s inception in 2007, the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) has made incredible strides in advocacy, education, and research of concussions and brain trauma in athletes and other at risk groups. A 501 (c) (3) organization, based out of Boston, MA, SLI has reached millions through live presentations, television, radio, and print media in order [...] Read more »
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to? A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education in schools. Despite [...] Read more »
Advocacy and Educational Technology: A Guide to Getting Your Voice Heard
Advocacy and Educational Technology: A Guide to Getting Your Voice Heard You have the power to effect change. Without your voice, elected officials can too easily forget the needs of schools and digital-age learners, and funding can slip through the cracks. As a passionate member of the ed tech community, stand up and make your [...] Read more »
NYS OCFS B2H Training: Ep. 9: Special Needs Community Advocacy and Support
Learn about the Special Needs Community Advocacy and Support for eligible foster children in the NYS OCFS Bridges to Health Medicaid-waiver program, which provides expanded and enhanced services to foster children who have serious emotional or developmental disabilities or are medically fragile. This program also serves their families, including birth parents, foster parents, pre-adoptive parents, [...] Read more »
Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Argument (7th Edition) (University Casebook Series)
Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Argument (7th Edition) (University Casebook Series) This overview of the use of litigation in dispute resolution is particularly well-suited for use in an introductory lawyering course. It instructs students on efficient preparation, proper form, and effective presentation of arguments. Content covers interpreting facts and developing core theory, legal research, [...] Read more »
Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Population Health (5th Edition)
Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Population Health (5th Edition) Now more than ever–locally, nationally, globally–society is in need of community health services. This book emphasizes the application of community health nursing as it relates to specific populations, settings, and community health problems. Theoretically and scientifically sound, as well as practical and applicable, this resource is [...] Read more »
Music Advocacy: Moving From Survival to Vision
Music Advocacy: Moving From Survival to Vision Since the launching of Sputnik by the USSR and financial crises such as Proposition 13 in California in the last quarter of the 20th century, music programs have become a primary target for elimination. This book is a summary of the practice of music advocacy. It is a [...] Read more »
Modern Trial Advocacy, Law School Edition
Modern Trial Advocacy, Law School Edition Modern Trial Advocacy Law School Edition presents a realistic and contemporary approach to learning and developing trial advocacy skills. Dedicated to the law student, the book contains a “Trial Basics” chapter, which discusses what happens in a trial and the role the advocate plays. According to Steven Lubet, an [...] Read more »
Internet Advocacy and Online Technology
In this modern world, online and other communication technologies change at a very rapid pace. Web conferences, email advocacy campaign, and blogs are being considered by many nonprofit organizations as new, exciting, and somewhat mysterious technologies that they can use to communicate and mobilize. However, the emergence of podcasting, wikis, or text messaging campaigns [...] Read more »