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Educating Parents: “Thinking Beyond One Day at a Time”: A Comprehensive FREE Special Education Law and Financial Planning Workshop

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 161 Skymeadow Dr Stamford CT 06903  See map

Educating Parents: “Thinking Beyond One Day at a Time”: A Comprehensive FREE Special Education Law and Financial Planning Workshop


 


 


Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 P.M. at Villa Maria School, 161 Sky Meadow Drive, Stamford, CT


 


Featured Speakers:


 


Attorney Lawrence W. Berliner, Special Education and Disability Law, Law Office of Lawrence W. Berliner, LLC Westport, CT


 


Stephen Ehrens, CPA, CLTC, Financial Advisor Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Fairfield, CT


 


This workshop will help parents articulate concerns and visions for their child and help them begin to develop strategies to achieve their goals.


 


The workshop will focus on 10 starting points


 


SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW:


• Pursuing your child’s basic educational rights


• IEP’s: Understanding goals and objectives and maximizing the effectiveness for your child


• PPT’s: How to prepare, organize and strategize for every PPT meeting including the annual review


• How to sharpen your parent advocacy skills


• What steps to take when your child is achieving below his/her potential


 


FINANCIAL PLANNING:


• Special Needs trusts – why planning is key for the future and lifetime of your child


• Learning how to compose a letter of intent


• Providing an array of financial solutions to meet your expectations


• Your child’s eligibility for benefits: SSI, Medicaid, and more


• Preparing for taxes: Guidelines for special needs families


 


CONTACT: Mary Ann Tynan, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS E-MAIL: mtynan@villamariaedu.org / PHONE:  (203) 322-5886 ext.104

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Lisa Buchman (Editor) May 17, 2013 at 11:20 am
This looks so great, thanks Elise! Just curious what are the age ranges of participants—do anyRead More local teens re-enact? Thanks for posting this as an announcement, if you also post it to our calendar, it will stay there until the day of the event. Just click on events at the top of the page. Thanks!
Richard Hastings May 8, 2013 at 03:39 pm
Dear Mr. Gladstone: Your comments provide for a great way of starting or continuing a discussion andRead More for that I am thankful. The fact which you cited provides for a compelling argument to further your position on "tort reform" regarding how medical malpractice awards have allegedly been steadily increasing, however it is contrary to the information provided to us by the United States government. The U.S Department of Heath and Human Services recently published its statistical findings which indicate that medical malpractice awards have steadily decreased over the past 11 years. (http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/servlet/DataTablesByStateServlet?selectedTab=Tabular&stateCode=US&tableNum=Table1) Further, according to the Institute of Medicine, preventive preventable medical errors kill almost 100,000 Americans every year and injure countless others. In fact, if the Centers For Disease Control were to include preventable medical errors as a category, it would be the sixth leading cause of death in America. One might surmise from this data that we have an epidemic of medical malpractice cases but not medical malpractice lawsuits. I would suggest that investigating ways to prevent these medical errors might provide for a more holistic solution to this systemic problem.
Porter Gladstone III May 6, 2013 at 05:03 pm
Im thinking of writing a book called "parasites, medical malpractice lawyers and theRead More exaggerations of claims." Or maybe "crash course--why personal injury lawyers are ruining this country." Medical malpractice awards have increased at a rate of roughly 12% per year for the last 40 years. When we are aghast at the cost of soaring college costs just consider that at this rate, the cost of Yale tuition would be 115,000 a year, as opposed to 43k. And remember we are all appalled at how fast that has risen. A crash course in how all of this parasitical work, costs all of us so dearly when we pay our taxes (medicare/medicaid) or insurance company.