{"id":1235,"date":"2022-02-18T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2022-02-23T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:03:54","slug":"the-special-edge-2-22-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/2022\/02\/18\/the-special-edge-2-22-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Special Edge 2\/22\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Shannon Watters<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #035dab\"><strong>Supported Decision Making<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>WHAT is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1LMneZ2_s2-kc-QDE9bfLtq5I3nBXRH4J56xlXDzUZ3Y\/edit?usp=sharing\">Supported Decision Making<\/a> is the understanding that a student with a disability can access people in their community to assist with decision making. A person uses trusted family, friends, or professionals for support to understand, evaluate, and communicate their decisions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a document, it\u2019s a series of relationships, practices, arrangements and agreements.\u00a0 Supported Decision Making is a less restrictive alternative to guardianship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHAT do I need to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss at each IEP meeting that includes post-secondary goals.\n<ul>\n<li>Discussion points:\n<ul>\n<li>understanding that a student with a disability can access people in their community to assist with decision making<\/li>\n<li>a series of relationships, practices, arrangements and agreements<\/li>\n<li>a less restrictive alternative to guardianship (may not be appropriate for all disabilities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add the template to \u201cAdditional Present Levels\u201d\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EkFj22ZD6MfgcL6H9sIWJWt6mUE6CQ_9\/view?usp=sharing\">Using Templates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use RCC to create meeting notice.\n<ul>\n<li>They will send home the brochure along with Procedural Safeguards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mark the checkbox on the Attendance Sheet<\/li>\n<li>Mention in the Meeting Notes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RESOURCES<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Flyers\/Brochures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XZTIHBguFp6lUegeh04MF_NV_MqhFr7R\/view?usp=sharing\">Parent Flyer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1aB0AQmu7Ai89YMRnW_JdsBUYwuG_CU7t\/view?usp=sharing\">Student Flyer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/dhs\/Supported-Decision-Making\/Pages\/index.aspx\">ODE Site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RJ8bg_FCt97bus1LKRt21Muuf2GS7wVZ\/view?usp=sharing\">English Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mMc-1RsMbrYqGyreGya4kaCdwIHPOWe3\/view?usp=sharing\">Spanish Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1yDndyroNqcREmbhNoW1I9D56VrNU5Pz3\/view?usp=sharing\">Russian Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1yVdnpKFnEiFI4CChoGMTr0LaUxNNP_Qy\/view?usp=sharing\">Simplified Chinese Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1R70E_KdrYNaxcSa2ku2ffj4rddfLQ_Da\/view?usp=sharing\">Vietnamese Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NZ6VJXEFgHRmxj702nn76LjqGWYd-REB\/view?usp=sharing\">Somali Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IEP Paperwork<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18BskM4ALj2BnVnFN0FT96QJhSwdkCZrR\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=104676876993450807771&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">Fillable Attendance<\/a> (Download from Google as Microsoft Word to your computer to be fillable)<\/li>\n<li>Procedural Safeguards combined with SDM brochure\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kOrqmoNKViTVPLzda2Tq-RpcC37k0aIU\/view?usp=sharing\">English<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-CtALhjsLJksnkLnvkpTwELHBSi8Y5ug\/view?usp=sharing\">Spanish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kvlhUyIlRs2Ft0tW9w1Z3UVbU4jrB1ib\/view?usp=sharing\">Russian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XDFUbE--z4G7kF8Ecqa6MnNkubo9ixV-\/view?usp=sharing\">Chinese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1l9fIuW71mzlFThKBzGXNpK7Wvlb8cK5c\/view?usp=sharing\">Somali<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1se5WP-nqurVPEsTLCPggiWt7sj42pRPV\/view?usp=sharing\">Vietnamese<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Shannon Watters Supported Decision Making WHAT is it? 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A person uses trusted family, friends, or professionals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/2022\/02\/18\/the-special-edge-2-22-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attachments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/the-special-edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}