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Educational Advocacy
& Consulting: (310) 314-2113
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My goal is to guide and motivate you to become an activist for your children's educational needs and to provide you with ongoing support and partnership in seeing that those needs are met. I started my Educational Advocacy practice in 1999 to serve as a comprehensive educational resource for parents of school-aged children in the greater Los Angeles area. After having fought for and successfully created programs for my highly gifted children, I turned my attention to children with other special needs. I bring a broad understanding of the educational, health, human services, and legal systems to a collaborative approach for creating a plan to facilitate positive outcomes for my clients and their families. As a facilitator, I am able to provide you with the following:
I have a doctorate in education (Ed. D.) from the University of Southern California (U.S.C.), as well as degrees in law, health science (health statistics and research), and sociology. Click here to view my Curriculum Vitae I helped create the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Schools for Advanced Studies (SAS) program in 1997, which impacts 50,000 gifted children in LAUSD. I am a member of the Human Resources Subcommittee for the LAUSD Chanda Smith Consent Decree, a member of the Mental Health Advocacy Services Special Education Task Force, and am active in local LAUSD School Site Councils, PTA, booster club, and Schools for Advanced Studies (SAS) programs. In November 2001, our client prevailed in a 12-day Due Process Hearing against the Huntington Beach Union School District (HBUSD) and the West Orange County Consortium for Special Education (WOCCSE; SN 98-01). Our client, JA,was a twelfth-grader with specific learning disabilities (SLD) and AD/HD (Other Health Impaired, OHI) due to Neurofibromatosis. He had been socially promoted and was scheduled to graduate, despite only being able to read at an elementary school level. We were able to prove that JA had not received a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and thus had not been provided with "the basic floor of opportunity" (Rowley, 1982). Among other findings, Hearing Officer Glenna Eubank deCamara ruled that JA was entitled to placement with transportation at Summit View School (a K-12 school in the Los Angeles area for children with learning disabilities) for an additional year of senior high school. For additional information and references please contact me by phone (310) 314-2113 or e-mail: info@lorenrgrossman.com |