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[quote=Anonymous]We used a tutor who had a Masters in Special Education as well as training as an Educational Advocate.  The tutoring services she provided filled in important gaps in areas that MCPS ignored.  Having her at IEP meetings helped in that she knew how to prepare for the meeting in ways that I didn't.   She had the knowledge to interpret data that the school team had to disclose prior to the meeting and because she was the tutor, she knew of homework examples or skill assessments she could give to bring in additional data.

Our experience for elementary, middle, and high school teams was that MCPS typically minimizes or completely ignores problems kids may be having.  3/4 of the year teachers fail your child for assignments and send emails complaining of behaviors then an IEP meeting is scheduled and problems vanish on Edline, emails, and the meeting teacher reports.  Keeping notebooks of records the entire year so you have info. at hand for meetings is important.  But given the limited time parents have to speak (often much less than any other member of the team) an educational advocate knows how to prioritize the most relevant and how to ask questions of team members to highlight points so meeting objectives can be met.

The most important aspect for me personally is that it took a lot of stress off my shoulders.  I could focus on being a mom and the advocate would do the preparation and have my child's back at the meetings.  I often felt that I could say the same thing as the advocate but because I was the parent, the team would never listen to me the way they did the advocate.  [/quote]

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