Evaluations
How to read your child’s evaluation report
Scores, percentiles and the summary page: what each part tells you, and the questions worth writing in the margin before the eligibility meeting.
Yoonhee Ryu8 min read
Education law for parents in Fairfax
You know your child. We know the rules the school works by.
Kebede & Ashgrove represents parents in special education, 504 plans and school discipline. Watch the short video, read a guide tonight, and call when you’re ready. We read your child’s file before we tell you anything.
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IEPs read line by line146
504 plans drafted58
discipline hearings attended21
due process complaints filed
A count of our paperwork, not a prediction for any child. Every case turns on its own records.
Start here
What we do before an IEP meeting, in ten minutes
Tsion Kebede walks through how we get a family ready: reading the evaluations, marking the goals that don’t match the data, and choosing the three questions you’ll ask out loud. Rather read it? The same walk-through is written out, step by step.
Getting ready for an IEP meeting, with Tsion Kebede
Guides
Guides to read before you call anyone
Written for parents, in plain words, by the lawyers here. Nothing to sign up for.
DisciplineWhen the school calls about a suspension
What to ask on that first call, what to put in writing the same day, and when a suspension means the school has to meet with you first.
Cormac Ashgrove6 min read
Working with usHow a case with us works, step by step
From the first call to the signed plan: the five steps, what each asks of you, and what happens if the school says no.
Tsion Kebede4 min read
What we handle
The four things parents bring us most
We represent parents, never school districts. Each page says what the work involves and what you can do this week.
Special education
Getting an evaluation, qualifying for services, and an IEP that names real goals and real minutes.
Special education
IEP disputes
When the team won’t agree: independent evaluations, mediation, and due process when it comes to that.
IEP disputes
School discipline
Long suspensions, expulsion hearings, and the review a school owes a student with a disability.
School discipline
504 plans
Accommodations for ADHD, anxiety, diabetes or a hearing loss, written down so every teacher follows them.
504 plans
From parents
What parents told us afterwards
“I had read the IEP a dozen times. Tsion read it once and found the reading goal hadn’t changed in two years. That was the meeting that turned it around.”
Dawit T.Parent, special education, Annandale
“The school called on a Thursday and wanted a hearing the next week. Cormac had the records request out that afternoon, and he told us exactly what the panel would ask.”
Renée L.Parent, discipline hearing, Centreville
“Yoonhee explained the 504 meeting to my mother in Korean and to me in English, and the plan finally says what my son’s teachers have to do.”
Jiwon P.Parent, 504 plan, Chantilly
Every child’s case is different. These comments describe one family’s experience and don’t predict the result in yours.
Send us the paperwork you already have
Start with a short call. If it makes sense, we’ll ask for the IEP or 504 plan, the evaluations and the emails, and tell you in writing what we see and what it would cost to act on it.
A first call doesn’t make us your lawyers; a signed engagement letter does.