The National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education
"Encouraging the use of mediation and other collaborative strategies to resolve disagreements about special
education and early intervention programs."
CADRE Resources
The CADRE/IDEA Partnership ADR Workgroup, a collaboration that engages diverse stakeholders from national organizations in an effort to promote the use of appropriate dispute resolution, delivered introductory presentations at the following conferences (to see the complete presentations please click on the attachments at the bottom of this page):
To see a list of the CADRE/IDEA Partnership ADR Workgroup members, please click here.
In addition to the presentations listed above, The IDEA Partnership has developed a packet on the topic of dispute resolution. Using CADRE's work on early and innovative dispute resolution processes, the Partnership has developed both an Executive Summary of the document Beyond Mediation: Strategies For Appropriate Early Dispute Resolution In Special Education and a Dialogue Starter for Dispute Resolution.
The package includes a Dialogue Guide Facilitator Handbook which is designed to support facilitators in this role. The Handbook includes guidance for organizing and convening a dialogue guide activity, as well as how a facilitator can take the dialogue further building upon the initial event.
Conference Presentations:
