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Problems With Your Child's School or Services?
Are you organizing a community of parents or families on a particular issue, especially an education or disability issue?
I Can Help.
I'm a special education advocate, activist, and community organizer. I have an extensive background working with disenfranchised and marginalized people. And yes, if your child has a disability, they are included in this category, especially when you are confronting systemic barriers such as those within school systems and state and governmental agencies.
I remind parents who come to me exasperated that integrating differently-abled children into schools is not unlike when we first integrated black and brown children into previously all-white schools. Just because the law changed and children were bunched together in classrooms, it didn't mean that racism all of a sudden didn't exist. Attitudes, bigotry, and unspoken barriers still remain(ed).
The same holds true for children today who require special education services. Not all school administrators know (or care) about differently-abled children and many don't think your child should be receiving precious resources. Barriers to the idea of disability still remain. Disability is a civil rights issue.
If you are having problems with your child's school or services or with organizing or training citizens in a particular community, I can help. I work with attorneys in different states on cases on behalf of children with disabilities and with nonprofits and businesses who need insight and guidance on community projects that serve parents, children, and underserved communities. I also help parents navigate their way through the special ed process, an IEP meeting, state agency complaint, mediation, or an Office of Civil Rights complaint.
Another article written about me in Latina Magazine about a nonprofit for Latina mothers I founded:
