Student Story to Center the Work around Collaboration with ALL Team Members
Evan Gabovitch was a public school student. He is a person on the autism spectrum and graduated high school nine years ago. As a student with a disability, he was entitled to an individual education program (IEP).
Evan reports that the annual meetings to review his special education plan always felt stressful.
It was hard to hear teachers list the things he couldn’t do. Even when he wanted to inject ideas into the conversation, he said he received pushback, especially in middle school.
“There was a lot of resistance,” Gabovitch said. “Not just about my suggestions, but also about what my parents wanted. And teachers and the administration wanted to impose what they thought.”
The frustration of those meetings and the harsh focus on deficits stick with him.
“It’s all about perception of self,” he said. “If the system does not view you in a positive way how are you going to succeed?”
Read full article at https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/24/special-education-improved-forms-process
