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IEP Game Creator
The IEP Game was created by Brenda Rogers while she was doing the research for her dissertation on Legal Consciousness in Special Education. The IEP Game was inspired by Brenda's instructional use of the interactive "poverty game." The poverty game teaches college students about the system of inequality that perpetuates homelessness and other types of social problems by employing the use of health, peace of mind, and money cards during an interactive training session where students perform transactions at different stations. Brenda wanted something as effective as the poverty game for interactive training that could be used to teach parents how to master the IEP Team experience.
Brenda Rogers is the Founding Executive Director of Access Center for Education. Access Center is a California non-profit dedicated to parent advocacy and training. Brenda has been a parent advocate since 1998 and founded Access Center in 2004 in order to provide direct advocacy services and empowerment training to low-income parents. In 2005, the Echoing Green Foundation awarded Brenda with seed funding allowing Access Center to develop as an organization.
Education
- 2003 Advanced to Candidacy for Doctorate in Sociology. School of Social Sciences. University of California, Irvine.
- Dissertation: Special Education, Legal Consciousness and Parent Advocacy
Teaching Experience
Brenda has been teaching classes in the social science departments at several universities in Orange County, California since 2001. Brenda teaches classes in social psychology, criminology, sociology, social problems, and research methods. Her teaching experience also includes eight years as a teaching assistant in general social sciences courses at the University of California, Irvine, with several years dedicated as a teaching assistant for upper division writing. Brenda also has ten years experience as a writing tutor both privately and at Orange Coast Community College.
Most importantly, Brenda is the parent of a sixteen-year old son who has had an IEP since 1996. It is through her experience as a parent in special education that Brenda developed her interest in the IEP process. The insights gained from the experience as a parent, advocate, college instructor, and scholar all contribute to the foundation upon which the IEP Game was created. The experience of running interactive training sessions with college students inspired the interactive organization of the IEP Game training and experience as parent, advocate, writing instructor and scholar combine to create the card and reference method used in self-advocacy.
