Season 3 · Episode 6
S3/Ep 6: The Secret to Special Education Success That Nobody's Talking About
Guardians of Hope: Empowering Child Advocacy
December 1, 202536m 40s
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Show Notes
Your child has an IEP or 504 plan. The accommodations are in place. The therapists are involved. So why aren't you seeing progress? The answer might have nothing to do with academics—and everything to do with emotional maturity.
Traci Glover, M.Ed., LSW, LPC, and Leena Weaver, Ed.S., NCSP, founders of Healing Children, reveal the truth educators and parents often miss: a 10-year-old functioning emotionally like a 3-year-old can't benefit from even the best IEP. Without frustration tolerance, emotional regulation, and developmental readiness, interventions fall flat.
Learn to recognize when behaviors are maturity-related (not defiance), how trauma and entitlement impact development, practical strategies for building emotional maturity through structure and boundaries, and why meeting children where they are developmentally—not chronologically—changes everything.
Topics
iepspecial education504counselingspecial needsemotionalimmaturitybehaviortantrumdevelopmentschoolparenting