I will never forget sitting at an IEP with the family of a 6 th grade student. The family’s focus was to boost teacher expectations in the area of Language Arts in order to prepare their daughter for success in High School. Their daughter was functioning at a third grade reading and reading comprehension level. […]

Have you been invited to attend an IEP meeting and did not know the people who were invited to the meeting? Have you ever walked out of a meeting and asked, “What exactly did they just say?” Have you ever asked your IEP team for something that you think is perfectly reasonable under the circumstances

A Mother’s Perspective: Even after fighting for 11 months to get someone, anyone, to believe me that my baby girl was deaf, confirmation of her profound hearing loss devastated me. I couldn’t understand why I was so sad.. What was wrong with me? I’d been telling them she couldn’t hear, and now they were confirming

Melinda Davis-Gillinger, M.A. Special Education August 2014 I believe that the fact that I not only work in this field, but also live it 24/7, has given me a unique perspective on the topic. My experience has molded my life’s mission: No other parent should ever have to walk this path alone, or re-invent this

TROUBLE IN THE 6TH GRADE Unfortunately for Krysta, our family moved at the end of 5th grade. We continued to drive her to the elementary school she had been attending, however, until she finished the 5th grade. Why, you might ask, would we choose to drive her to school an hour away each day? As

Krysta is my first child and is the reason I do what I do. If she were not born when she was, where she was, and profoundly deaf, I would not have had to make a path where none existed before. If she were born today, tested at birth, and the implant were easily available,

I have been blessed to take this journey through Special Education as a Consultant for the past three decades, and to walk my path as a parent with my daughter, Krysta. It has been a long road from when she was newborn, and I was fighting by myself to get someone to believe she was