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What is a Parent Special Education Consultant / Advocate?

Special Education Consultant / Advocate help you build productive dialogue and a strong collaborative relationship with your child’s Special Educational Team and school district. I will provide you with the advice, creative approaches, personal attention and tools you will need to help your child succeed. Parent Advocates will help you become a more effective Special Education advocate for your child. *** A Special Education Advocate is NOT A licensed, practicing attorney.***

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Services include, but are not limited to:

- Assist, inform, empower and educate parents/caregivers
- One-to-one consultation with parents/caregivers on child’s current performance, review history and discuss vision for future
- Review and examine records, evaluations, assessments, developmental history, current and past education plans, report cards and progress reports
- Create organized binder of child’s records
- Assist in designing the right path to best serve your child’s unique needs
- Represent your vision at meetings
- Draft effective letters for school and other agencies
- Match the needs of the child to programs, providers and schools
- Recommend appropriate services that will meet your child’s unique profile
- Assist in preparing you for an IEP or 504 meetings by identifying priorities, researching options, and empowering you to be mentally and emotionally prepared.
- Direct Meeting Support: I can accompany and support you at meetings in order to provide clear communication, detailed notes, and a collaborative atmosphere.

What we will need to work together:

- - Signed contract
  - A nonrefundable administrative fee of $300 - This fee will be used towards services
  - Copies of last 2 IEPs
  - Copies of recent school testing, report cards, progress reports, letters to the school
  - Copies of recent independent evaluations, if applicable
  - Copies of recent Behavior Plans, if applicable

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What is a Parent Special Education Consultant / Advocate?

Services include, but are not limited to:

What we will need to work together:

Call or email Bridget Koetsch

978-844-0295 bridget@childrenfirstma.com