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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody shells out the money for an advocate unless they have already been stonewalled by the school. My child with significant needs was denied even an *evaluation* by his ES and the special ed coordinator outright lied to me about 504s being “just as good” as an IEP. I hired an advocate and everything fell into place.

Several years earlier I had gotten him early intervention services but the central office also tried to deny him that, and they also lied or were misinformed about the law. I got him services only because I myself am a lawyer and was able to advocate myself. I had not been expecting to have to do so at that meeting but because my training allowed me to effectively state my case with the right level of force, they found him eligible.

Keep in mind this is a kid with significant needs - now 8 years after that initial encounter with the system absolutely nobody disagrees that he needs the IEP. [/quote]

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IME there are a lot of really terrible school teams out there that try to steer parents in the wrong direction and give misinformation as a way to reduce their own workload. We had the same issue with a team saying no to the question of does our chid have a suspected disability and can we move on to evaluation. We were getting emails and phone calls about this child every single day! They also told us verbally no reason to move forward with a 504 meeting and that they wouldn't hold that meeting.
Well they can't do that, but we didn't know until we spoke with another family. The devious part was they were trying to prevent us from requesting the meeting in writing so there was documentation of our request. There are 100 examples like this just for our family.
We got an advocate and the school stopped lying and misleading us for the most part.
The advocate herself wasn't really useful and honestly a waste of money. I got most of my advice from other parents but it did put the school on notice.
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