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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."


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This document does not offer formal policy guidance from the Office of Special Education Programs at the United States Department of Education.

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Collaborative Problem Solving and Dispute Resolution in Special Education: A Training Manual

Rod Windle, Ph.D. and Suzanne Warren, M.S.

This manual is designed as an educational tool for understanding and resolving conflict. It offers state-of-the-art thinking in dispute resolution applied to special education situations. Written in an easy-to-understand, illustrated and jargon-free format, it is designed both for stand-alone reading and to be used as part of workshop groups. The manual is 135 pages and depending upon your internet speed may take a moment to load.

The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Pat Evenson-Brady, Assistant Superintendent for Hood River Schools, for her continuous support of this project, and Jim Melamed, J.D., whose gentle suggestions were pivotal in shaping this manual's final form.

This manual describes a methodology for resolving conflict in a collaborative manner, but does not refer to Dr. Ross Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving approach, as first described in his book The Explosive Child. For more information on Dr. Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving approach, visit the website of his non-profit organization, Lives in the Balance at http://www.livesinthebalance.org.

 

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