**Este módulo está disponible en español: Introducción a las Garantías Procesales
Procedural safeguards are an integral part of IDEA's requirements. They represent guarantees for parents and their child with a disabilities, as well as offer both school and parents a variety of options for resolving any disagreements. Module 17 provides an introduction to these safeguards, including:
- parent access to student records,
- parent rights to ask that those records be amended,
- parent rights to participation in groups and meetings where decisions are made about their child's education,
- parent notification requirements (prior written notice and the procedural safeguards notice), and
- selected other safeguards (e.g., independent educational evaluation, surrogate parents, age of majority).
The module is available in English and Spanish, as you'll see below. It includes:
- a slideshow presentation;
- a Trainer's Guide;
- handouts for participants; and
- supplemental resources for trainers.
Please help yourself below, and download the components you need to learn on your own and/or to introduce others to IDEA's procedural safeguards.
Component #1: The Slideshows | Las Diapositivas
The English and Spanish sets of these 28 slides are to help you frame training on the procedural safeguards listed above.
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Component #2: Trainer's Guide | Guía para Entrenadores
There are 2 guides, an English and a Spanish, designed to show trainers how each slide operates (e.g., what clicks to make to move through the slide's content).
The English guide is where you'll find the full explanation of each slide's content. It also offers much additional info so that trainers can adapt training sessions to a length or detail suitable to the given audience.
The Spanish guide only shows how the slides operate, with thumbnail pictures of each slide. If you're a trainer in Spanish, you'll also want the English guide for its detailed content and supporting suggestions.
Trainer's Guide in English
(If you have a slower Internet connection and want to download the PDF version, try our "for slower connections" page with the Trainer's Guide for Module 17 broken into two parts.)
Guía para Entrenadores **
Find out how the Module 17 slideshow in Spanish works, what clicks to make, and what happens as a result. Explanations of the content of the slides are not included--you'll find those in the English version of the Trainer's Guide for Module 17 (just above).
www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Documents/Spanish/17-Trainers-SP.pdf
Component #3: Handouts for Participants | Folletos para Participantes
The handouts for Module 17 are are included in a packet of handouts designed to cover the entire umbrella topic of Theme E (Procedural Safeguards). If you've downloaded the handouts for Theme E, you have what you need for Module 17. If you haven't downloaded any handouts for Theme E yet, here they are, in 2 different formats and 2 different languages.
English Handouts for Participants
Folletos para Tema E en Español **
Note about the Spanish Translations:
In preparing the handouts in Spanish, NICHCY has chosen to use a certain vocabulary set for the terminology most frequently used in IDEA. IDEA itself is extremely and purposefully consistent about its terminology, and we felt it critical to do the same in Spanish. However, we fully recognize that there are many ways to say the same thing, and Spanish is rich with alternatives from country to country, region to region. So we've also prepared a glossary of the terminology used in IDEA, how we've rendered that terminology in Spanish, and other ways of rendering it that families may also hear. Share this with participants as you see fit or use it to guide your own translations. The glossary of terminology is available in two formats, PDF and Word:
Component #4: Resources for Trainers
English only
Module 17 also includes a brief Resources for Trainers document that provides extra info on FERPA and on the Department of Education's discussion of the impact of the changes made in IDEA's requirements to provide parents with the procedural safeguards notice. If either of these interest you, here's the Resources for Trainers document, in 2 different formats:
There! You're ready to roll with Module 17. Please remember that these materials are designed to be a thorough and authoritative source of info on specific procedural safeguards under IDEA 2004. That's why they are so detailed. As a trainer, you are free to adapt the info we've offered to serve the purposes and needs of your audiences and the amount of time you have to spend with them.