Move from unsure to confident
You are doing the best you can to connect with the IEP team and get the special education support your child needs.
When you’re talking with your child’s teacher, preparing for school meetings, or sharing what works best for their child, you are advocating. Knowing Your Advocacy Style, 1 of 4 approaches identified in special education research, can help your confidence. Learn yours in Take our 5-minute assessment below.
How to Read an IEP
When a parent told me, “Honestly, I don’t really know how to read an IEP,” I was understood all too well. It’s taken me years to dive into a document that is so important and yet so difficult to read. Reading through that legal document that catalogs your child’s deficits is confusing and disheartening. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Learn more and save your seat today.
First workshop is Saturday November 14 from 10am - 11:30am
Introducing the IEP Doula™ Workshops
Discover your Parent Advocacy Style
What people are saying.
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“Our case manager was not seeing the problems we were seeing.”
Working with Cherylynne, before, during, and after the IEP team meeting, I was able to get the principal to call for data collection and get the case manager and other teachers to come up with ideas to move things forward and support my student, to reduce the stresses that were triggering my middle schooler.
— R., parent of a NE Seattle student
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"The school gave a day's notice for a placement change"
I responded by calling for an IEP team meeting. The last-minute substitution of an administrator who knew nothing about our student nearly sent me over the edge. It was a relief to know Cherylynne was taking notes to capture the whole thing. Those notes helped with our due process case.
- Sara E., parent of a Seattle high schooler