Educational Success Through Advocacy

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                                    Educational Resources has been protecting and promoting the educational rights of students with disabilities since 2004. Our mission is to provide high quality advocacy for children with special needs and their families. We provide education advocacy to children and families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area (DMV), Baltimore and New York City.

                        All parents want their children to be successful in school. If your child is having difficulties in school related to academic, behavioral or social/emotional problems, it is vitally important that your child receives the full range of educational support services to which he/she is entitled. If the school failed to act upon the concerns you've raised about your child's inability to thrive academically, call the experts at Educational Resources.

 

                   Some difficulties qualify as a “disability” due to their nature or severity. While many parents don’t like th​e term, if your child has a disability, he/she may be eligible for extra assistance from the school that can help them academically, emotionally or socially. We’ll help you understand how to get a correct diagnosis, understand the criteria for assistance and figure out how they apply to your child.

 

Often children exhibit one or more of these:

• ADHD: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (includes ADD). Child has difficulty focusing or concentrating especially on more demanding tasks.
• Autism Spectrum Disorder: (ASD, includes Asperger’s Syndrome): Child has ongoing social weaknesses, including difficulty interacting with others including maintaining eye contact; repetitive behaviors, limited and often intense interests; sensory issues.
• Social/Emotional: Child exhibits emotional or behavioral symptoms e.g. anxiety, depression, or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Child has difficulty interacting or communicating with others.
• Speech/Language: Child may separately have delayed or limited expressive language (talking), receptive language (understanding spoken language)
• Learning Disability: Child has difficulty with reading, writing or arithmetic/math, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia.
• Hearing/Auditory Processing: Child could be hard of hearing in one or both ears, deaf, or may have difficulty distinguishing voices in a noisy environment (including decoding audio processing disorder-DAPD).
• Fine and Gross Motor Skills: Child may have difficulty in drawing, writing or other fine motor skills (or receiving Occupational Therapy) or gross motor skills (e.g. walking, sitting, standing) that inhabit participation in school activities including gym and extra-curricular activities like sports.