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As Your Advocate What Do Advocates Do? Advocating For You

As Your Advocate

Choosing to work with an advocate is indeed a BIG decision. Choosing the right advocate can help you to secure a brighter future for everyone. Over the years, working for various agencies in the San Diego area as well as my own practice, I've formed valuable working relationships with people, organizations and school districts. This level of experience and trust is not equaled anywhere else and I work hard to ensure that each and every client receives IEP the services needed.
What Do Advocates Do?

The proper advocate supports your family in many ways. In a direct level of service, an advocate speaks for you in difficult situations. Indirectly, your advocate helps to guide you to other people and services within your community. Advocates are NOT attorneys and any advice given should be carefully reviewed and examined. Ultimately, the responsibility for all decisions lies with YOU!!
How I Advocate For You

As your advocate, I can help you to open doors to services, streamline your child's education, and help to reshape the future. My focus is on creating a team of people who can successfully work together for the purpose of providing your child with the education and supports needed to help him/her live a full life, just as I have been able to do for my own son and our family.

Welcome – Help is Here!

Congratulations!! You have just taken an important step toward improving the life of your special needs child and your family. Choosing to work with an advocate is indeed a BIG decision. Choosing the right advocate can help you to secure a brighter future for everyone.

People hire advocates for a variety of reasons. I have had clients hire me for their first IEP because they recognize that there is just so much to learn and do and they don’t want to mess up their child’s education. I have been able to help teach them about the IEP process and how they can best prepare themselves. Additionally, they have a well written and solid IEP – something that many parents NEVER do for their child!

Other parents hire me when things are obviously going wrong. Most often they have tried their best to fix the situation but nothing has changed to it has gotten worse. I am able to come into this sometimes volatile situation and helped to remedy it. Sometimes that means that I can create a wonderful IEP team that works together. Sometimes it means that I move the child into an appropriate placement that is not always within the same district. Each situation is different and it takes experience and the ability to think under pressure in order to create a truly working IEP document and team.

If you just don’t have the ability to do this for your child, then don’t hesitate to contact me for help.