IEP and School Collaboration
We review your child's IEP, advise you on it, and attend IEP meetings in person with families who want us there. The goal is that what happens at school and what happens at home pull in the same direction rather than working against each other.
What this looks like
- Reading the IEP with you and explaining what the goals actually commit the school to.
- Preparing you for a meeting so you know what to ask.
- Sitting at the table with you.
- Sharing our data with the school team where you want us to.
- Aligning our home goals with the classroom goals so your child isn't learning two different systems.
Skills we commonly target
- Understanding what an IEP goal commits the school to
- Preparing questions before a meeting
- Bringing home data into a school conversation
- Keeping home and classroom goals aligned
- Following up after a meeting
How sessions run
Most of this work happens around your child's sessions rather than inside them. We read the document, talk it through with you, and prepare for the meeting in advance. When a meeting is scheduled, we attend in person if that is what you want. Afterward we translate what was agreed into what it means for the goals we are working on at home.
How progress is measured
Progress is tracked continuously using data collected during sessions. Goals are reviewed and adjusted as your child grows and changes.
Your role
You decide how involved we are. Some families want us at every meeting, some want a read of the document and a list of questions, and some want nothing shared with the school at all. All three are fine. Nothing goes to a school team without your permission.
We have seen the other side of the table
Our Director of Operations, Michael Zagurski, was a special education teacher in the Naperville school district and saw the IEP process from the school’s side of the table. That perspective changes what we can tell you: how a meeting is likely to run, what a school team is weighing, and which questions get a concrete answer rather than a general one.
It also keeps the tone right. An IEP meeting works better as a working conversation than as an argument, and the families who get the most out of one usually walk in prepared rather than adversarial.
Dozens of districts across Chicagoland
The Chicagoland families we serve span dozens of school districts, each with its own processes, staffing, and way of running a meeting. We do not pretend every district is the same, and we do not arrive with a script. You can see the communities we serve and the city pages that name the districts in each one.
What stays constant is the aim: one set of goals your child is working toward, understood the same way at home and in the classroom.
Who delivers it
Sessions are delivered by a Registered Behavior Technician under ongoing supervision from your Board Certified Behavior Analyst, who designs the program, reviews the data, and updates goals.
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Common questions
Will you attend my child's IEP meeting?
Yes, with families who want us there. We attend IEP meetings in person, and we prepare you beforehand so you know what to ask. Whether we attend is your decision, not a requirement of the program.
What does reviewing an IEP with us involve?
We read the document with you and explain what the goals actually commit the school to, in plain language. Knowing the difference between a goal that is specific and one that is open to interpretation is what lets a parent ask a useful question at the table.
Do you share our data with the school?
Only where you want us to. When you do, sharing progress from home sessions gives the school team information they would not otherwise have, and lets home and classroom goals be aligned rather than duplicated.
Who does this work?
Your Board Certified Behavior Analyst leads IEP review and school collaboration, designs the program, reviews the data, and updates goals, while a Registered Behavior Technician delivers your child's in-home sessions under that ongoing supervision.