About this episode

Allison Lloyd discusses IEP advocacy for parents of special needs children, sharing insights on navigating school meetings and fighting for their rights.

IEP advocacy for parents — how to fight for your special needs child without feeling lost or steamrolled. Your child's IEP meeting is tomorrow, and you're already sweating — the jargon, the binders, the professionals in that room who seem to hold all the cards. You sit down, they talk, you nod, and somewhere between "RTI" and "scaled score," you sign a paper you didn't fully understand. If that gut-punch feeling is familiar, this episode is for you. Allison Lloyd spent years as a special education teacher before her own son — a stroke survivor since infancy — taught her that knowing the system isn't enough. You have to fight it, too. WHAT'S INSIDE THIS EPISODE: Why accepting what you're handed is the most common — and most costly — mistake parents of special needs kids make How Allison's son's infantile stroke launched her from classroom teacher to fearless advocate (and what she did when an OT quietly cut his therapy in half) What executive functioning actually means in plain English — and the game-based tools you can use at home tonight The 3 things every parent can do right now: show up, ask every question, and never agree to "wait and see" Why US employers are legally…

People in this episode

Host: Natalie McCabe

Guest: Allison Lloyd

Topics covered

• IEP advocacy
• special needs
• parenting
• education
• executive functioning
• school meetings

Keywords

• IEP
• advocacy
• special needs
• parenting tips
• school meetings
• executive functioning
• therapy

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Organizations: US employers

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