From Angry Mom to Power Mom: The Parent Training and Information Centers and Your Child’s Individualized Education Program

Season 1, Episode 13 — 20 October 2016 About this episode Paula Wills and Michelle Phillips of Chicago’s Family Resource Center on Disabilities discuss the services that are available through the Parent Training and Information Center to parents trying to navigate the education provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Prior to being the Executive Director at the Family Resource Center on Disabilities, Michelle Phillips was a skeptical parent seeking help securing her son’s educational rights. She explains her journey from Angry Mom to Power Mom with the help of her Parent Training and Information Center. About the presenters Michelle Phillips (pictured above, second from the left) is the Executive Director of the Family Resource Center on Disabilities , the Parent Training and Information Center for the Chicago metropolitan area. She is the mother of an adult son with osteogenesis imperfecta and a recent grandmother to a grandchild, also with osteogenesis imperfecta. Prior to directing the Family Resource Center on Disabilities, she was a parent who learned to use the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from he local Parent Training and Information Center. Paula Wills (pictured above, right) is the Technology Outreach Coordinator for Family Resource Center on Disabilities Parent Information Center . Her interests include advocacy for parents of children with disabilities utilizing special education services, and technology and media management for non-profits. Transcript Announcer: You’re listening to TASH Amplified , a podcast that seeks to transform research and experience concerning inclusion and equity for people with disabilities into solutions people can use in their everyday lives. Today we have two of our favorite regular contributors to our Annual Conference , Paula Wills and Michelle Phillips, both of whom work at the Family Resource Center on Disabilities , which is the Parent Training and Information Center for the Chicago metropolitan area. Paula is today’s guest interviewer. She is the Technology Outreach Coordinator at Family Resource Center on Disabilities. She is also the Co-Vice President of the Illinois TASH Chapter and has been the photographer at our annual conference for two years running. Importantly for TASH Amplified , because Paula does her own interviews at BlogTalkRadio, she helped us get started when we were just trying to figure out this podcast thing. Paula is interviewing Michelle Phillips, her boss and the Executive Director at the Family Resource Center on Disabilities. Michelle will be a panelist at one of the general sessions at our 2016 Annual Conference to be held in St. Louis from Wednesday, November 30th-Friday, December 2nd. In today’s interview they discuss the services available through the Parent Training and Information Centers and Michelle’s own experience shepherding her son through the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act . The upgrades continue here at TASH Amplifed . Starting this week we now have a regular musical introduction, an original composition and performance by Sunny Cefaratti , the Co-Director and Autistic Self Advocacy Mentor at the Musical Autist . Musical interlude Complete transcript forthcoming Announcer: (music playing in the background) You’ve been listening to TASH Amplified . For more about the series, including show notes, links to articles discussed, a complete transcript and past episodes, visit tashorgstg.wpengine.com/amplified . You can

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This episode was published on Oct 20, 2016.

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