Educational Advocacy

We also offer educational advocacy and can represent families in IEP meetings,  504 meetings, etc.

A special education advocate helps families address previously identified learning challenges, as well as pinpoint overlooked factors that may be affecting a child’s ability to learn.

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These include:

• Learning disabilities

• Intellectual disabilities

• Vision and hearing impairments

• Speech and language disorders

• ADHD

• Autism spectrum disorder

• Behavioral and emotional disorders

• Physical disabilities

• Chronic illness

• Traumatic brain injury

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A special education advocate takes on many responsibilities. To empower families and give a voice to students, special education advocates perform the following duties:

• Advising parents about services, programs, and accommodations that meet their children’s individual needs

• Helping parents interpret reports and evaluations, as well as explaining their implications

• Drafting requests, responses, and complaints to schools

• Assisting parents with submitting written requests

• Preparing parents for IEP and 504 meetings (meetings that outline the services and accommodations students will receive and how schools will remove barriers to learning, such as providing a talking calculator to students with dyscalculia), which may include suggesting support materials or prioritizing goals and objectives

• Checking special education documents for accuracy and completion both before and after IEP and 504 meetings

• Accompanying parents to IEP and 504 meetings to offer advice and assistance

• Advising parents about the strength of their cases before review and offering referrals to special education attorneys when appropriate

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Fill out and attach both the advocacy and HIPAA form to your request for it to be properly addressed and replied to.