Because your child’s education matters!

Get the Support You Need

  • We guide families to ask the right questions of teachers, school administration, and pediatricians.
  • We deliver Sure Fire ways to help your child manage at home.
  • We empower families to be the ones in control of their child’s success.
  • We guide families to keep schools accountable to follow education plans and protocols, such as IEPs.

TESTIMONIALS

Words are inadequate in expressing how grateful we are for Karen’s help in getting the accommodations our son needs to excel in school. The entire IEP process is foreign to us, as I’m sure it is to most parents. We’re outsiders to “the system” and it was overwhelming to tackle the process. We knew our son was struggling but we didn’t know how to help him. He was born with a birth defect, was diagnosed with ADHD and was Struggling with Dyslexia. Once Karen became involved, everything just fell into place. She is truly a Godsend! Not only was she familiar with the lingo and the IEP process, but she understands children on a level most educators only hope to achieve. She knows the most basic things necessary for kids to learn and thrive and was able to help us know what to ask for in regard to accommodations so our son could begin to feel success in learning. She knows the State and Federal requirements which was also helpful. I would repeatedly say, “We can ASK for that??” and Karen would tell us what words to even use to get what we needed. I’m confident the teachers and administration were shocked when they left our meeting because we were so prepared, so informed and so confident about what needed done. Without Karen, our son would still be struggling in school and we would still feel like the school was our adversary, rather than our advocate in education.

K. Rodgers
Michigan

We were lost and Karen held our hand and guided us through the entire IEP process. Ultimately, the school agreed to the entire list of accommodations we requested. I am confident that would not have been possible without Karen’s insight and guidance. We would not have even known what to say, what to ask for and what to require. When our son was in kindergarten, Karen suggested we get a 504 to help him with some basic accommodations. 2nd grade he needed a full IEP in order to succeed. We didn’t really know what to ask for so we just went along with what his “education team” recommended. By 3rd grade, it was clear that he was falling behind and something more was going on with him. I was frustrated that the people working with him at school were content to continue doing the same things with him everyday. Even with an IEP in place, he was slipping through the cracks, he was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia, and the I felt like the very people who were supposedly advocating for his education were actually only doing what benefited the school system, not Knox. Karen was a lifeline in the unknown sea of IEP lingo, state and federal requirements, and special accommodations. Before the IEP review, Karen helped us put into writing a very extensive list of accommodations and requests. Knox’s “education team” was flabbergasted in the IEP review at how prepared and informed we were. They agreed to everything we asked for. That wouldn’t have been possible without Karen’s expertise.

Charles James
Indiana

When my son was in school I would have paid $10,000 for these services. If I didn’t have it, I would have found it!

Wendy A.
California