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<p>Today we talk to Mandy Favolaro & Missy Alexander about the Annual COPAA Conference. COPAA stands for Council of Parents Attorneys and Advocates, an organization dedicated to protecting and enforcing the legal and civil rights of students with disabilities and their families. Their primary goal is to secure high quality educational services and to promote excellence in advocacy and their Annual Conference is one of the ways in which they do it!</p> <p>If you aren't familiar with COPAA, join us to learn about one of the best conferences out there for parents of students with disabilities (and attorneys and advocates). And if you are familiar with this inspiring conference, then listen in to hear about all the cool ways they plan to host the conference virtually this year!</p> <p>You can check COPAA out at COPAA.org and register for the conference here:<br /> https://www.copaa.org/page/2021-conference</p> <p>You can learn more about Mandy Favaloro here: http://www.a2zedad.com/about-us/</p> <p>You can learn more about Missy Alexander here:<br /> https://www.ppmd.org/staff/missy-alexander/</p> <p><br /> TRANSCRIPT</p> <p>SUMMARY KEYWORDS<br /> conference, people, advocate, coppa, parents, attorneys, year, training, topics, sessions, missy, students, mandy, hear, learn, presentation, special education, government relations committee, specific, special ed</p> <p>SPEAKERS<br /> Missy Alexander, Mandy Favaloro, Dana Jonson</p> <p>Dana Jonson 00:02<br /> Hello, and welcome to need to know with Dana Jonson. I'm your host, Dana Jonson and I'm here to give you the information you need to know to best advocate for your child. I'm a special education attorney in private practice, a former special education teacher and administrator, a current mom to four children with IPS and I myself have ADHD and dyslexia. So I have approached the world of disability and special education from many angles. And I'll provide straightforward information about your rights and your schools obligations, information from other professionals on m