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Empowering your child to reach their greatest potential.
Do I need an educational advocate?
- Are you feeling overwhelmed by the IEP or 504 process?
- Do you often feel like you are missing important information despite trying to understand everything about the process?
- Are you having difficulty understanding the language, terminology, and acronyms used in special education?
- Are you ever frustrated when reviewing school documents and wondering if they meet your child's unique educational, academic, social, and emotional needs?
- Do you disagree with the school's statement regarding your child?
- Do you often feel like an outsider at IEP team meetings despite wanting a collaborative relationship with the school? Are you uncomfortable speaking up when outnumbered?
- Are your K-12 students not receiving adequate education?
Achanje supports marginalized students through student advocacy, education rights, academic support, equity in education, parent coaching.
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The Difference Between Advocates and Attorneys
Special Education Advocate
Special Education Advocate
Special Education Advocate
A person who guides you through student advocacy, education rights, academic support, equity in education, parent coaching
An advocate can:
- Negotiate with the school on your behalf
- Facilitate IEP and other meetings with the school, including mediation
- Advise you on educational services and supports
- Recommend specialists, service providers, evaluators, and school
- Help you write letters to the school
- Review your child’s IEP or 504 plan
- Give you information about the law
They possess knowledge and skills in various fields, such as:
- Teaching methods
- Specific learning and attention issues or other disabilities
- Behavior strategies
- Evaluations
- Mediating disputes
- Knowledge of programs in different private and public schools
- Assistive technology
- Special education law
An advocate can’t:
- Give you legal advice about your child’s rights
- Prepare legal complaints and papers
- Represent you as legal counsel in a lawsuit in state or federal court
- Your state may have specific rules on what advocates can and can’t do.
Attorney
Special Education Advocate
Special Education Advocate
A professional with a law degree who represents you when you’re considering dispute resolution or legal action against a school.
An attorney can:
- Negotiate with the school on your behalf
- Give you legal advice about your child’s rights
- Review your child’s IEP or 504 plan from a legal perspective
- Write letters to the school on your behalf
- Prepare legal complaints and papers
- Represent you in a mediation, due process hearing or impartial hearing
- Represent you in a lawsuit in state or federal court
Lawyers do not typically get involved in youth empowerment, campus activism, rights and responsibilities
student advocacy, education rights, academic support, equity in education,
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