A surfer writes:

I am an attorney and am building a practice focusing on Special Education counseling, training and mediation (ultimately, I’d like to get on TEA’s list of approved mediators for Special Education disputes). Do you know if your course satisfies TEA’s mediator qualifications requirements (or if there are any)? Also, does your company ever do trainings specifically targeted to Special Ed mediators?

Kris Responds:

The short answer to your TEA requirements is “yes”. Our Basic 40 Hour Mediation Course satisfies statutory requirements for Basic Mediation training in the state of Texas and TEA honors those requirements.

In regard to your second question, we have provided custom trainings to many groups including higher education professionals and special education audiences. We do not provide– on a regular basis– any specialized training for “special education mediators”, though we probably could if the demand/requests were there. TEA might be a good source for questioning where this type of advanced mediator training could be found. Another source of information about the training of mediators in Texas can be found on the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable website at:www.tmtr.org.

Good Luck!

Kris