Advocates here work with Sandy Springs families and Fulton County Public Schools teams. Each profile lists a rate when the advocate shares one.
5 based in Georgia · 3 virtual advocates who work with Georgia schools
An advocate is a paid professional who reads the evaluation reports, drafts your concerns, sits beside you at the IEP table, and follows up on whatever the school agreed to do.
Most of the work happens before anyone sits down in a Sandy Springs conference room.
During a Sandy Springs IEP meeting an advocate writes down what the team agrees to and asks for it in the document before anyone leaves the room.
Records live with Fulton County Public Schools, not with the front office of one building, and a request addressed to the district gets a faster answer than one that is not.
No advocate in this directory lists Sandy Springs as their home base. These advocates work from other parts of Georgia, and each card names the city.
Based in Flowery Branch, GA
Special education advocate/ IEP consultant
I am a certified special education teacher and a behavior specialist. Additionally, I am a mother to a child with behavioral issues who has an Individualized Education Program (IEP), as well as…
Based in Buford, GA
Georgia Special Education & IEP Advocate
Dr. Mary Jo Ray-Jewett is the owner and lead advocate of The IEP Guru, LLC, providing special education advocacy throughout Georgia.
Based in Atlanta, GA
Special Education Advocate
My name is Jalani Traxler and I have loved teaching sense I myself was a student with an IEP receiving my own accommodations in elementary school.
These advocates are not based in Georgia. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Leesburg, FL · works with Georgia schools
CEO IEP Advocate Espanol
Evelyn Roman-Santos is a bilingual Special Education Advocate with 30 years of experience as a School Social Worker.
Virtual · based in Hialeah, FL · works with Georgia schools
Advocate
I look forward to helping families and their students get the crucial support they need. I have varied experience working with families and educators at the state and local levels.
Virtual · based in Katy, TX · works with Georgia schools
Special Education Advocate
Besides being a parent of a neurodivergent son, I have been a special education teacher, diagnostician, and advocate for the past 30 years. I am a true hands-on, walk in your shoes type of advocate.
Fulton County Public Schools runs the IEP meetings for most Sandy Springs students, and its special education staff will be on the other side of the table when you walk in.
Buildings do not fund services and districts do. Ask which office is deciding before you spend a meeting arguing with the wrong one.
Confirm your child's district by address before you send a letter or name a district-specific process.
Once you sign consent for testing, a Georgia district has 60 calendar days to finish an initial evaluation, and that clock does not stop because a case manager is out or the file went to the wrong building.
Ask the Sandy Springs team for the evaluation report before the meeting, not at it, because nobody reads a long report accurately while the rest of the team waits.
Georgia gives a school district 60 calendar days to finish an initial special education evaluation. No Georgia rule sets a separate deadline for answering a written request, so the federal reasonable-time standard is what applies. Missed deadlines are handled by the Georgia Department of Education, Division for Exceptional Children, which takes written state complaints from parents.
Georgia does not license or certify special education advocates. Anyone in Sandy Springs can print a card with the word advocate on it.
A certificate says nothing about Fulton County Public Schools. Ask instead what the advocate has filed there and what came back.
Advocates are not attorneys. No advocate in Sandy Springs can file a lawsuit for you or give you legal advice about the case.
What worked for a family in Athens may not fit yours. Ask the advocate what is different about your file before you copy anyone.
Rates and openings decide most of this. An advocate who cannot meet before your Sandy Springs meeting date is the wrong hire, and the second-best advocate who is free this month usually beats the best one who is not.
Read a profile for what the advocate actually did, not for what the profile claims. Case detail is the tell.
Answers about hiring a special education advocate in Sandy Springs, Georgia, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
How much does an IEP advocate cost in Sandy Springs?
Rates run $75 to $250 per hour. What moves the number is experience, the type of case, and whether anyone has to drive to the meeting. Profiles here show the rate when the advocate publishes one.
Which school district serves Sandy Springs, Georgia?
Fulton County Public Schools runs the IEP meetings for most Sandy Springs students. District lines and city lines are not the same, so confirm yours by address before you send a letter.
Are there any IEP advocates near Sandy Springs?
No advocate is listed in every town, and each card here says where that person lives. Somebody who knows the state rules and has an opening this month usually beats the nearest name on the list.
Do advocates handle accommodation plans?
Yes. Section 504 work looks the same as IEP work, which is records, a written request and somebody in the room who knows what the school already agreed to.
How do I prepare for an IEP meeting in Sandy Springs?
Write down the two things you want changed and bring the paperwork that shows why. Meetings run long when nobody in the room has decided what the ask is.
Official Georgia links for parents in Sandy Springs.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same Georgia rules apply in Athens, Roswell, Savannah, Warner Robins and the other cities listed here, or see every Georgia advocate.
Start with two calls, not six. Ask each advocate what they would do first with a Sandy Springs file, and hire the one whose answer is specific enough that you could write it down as a task.
Say the name of your school and Fulton County Public Schools in the first message. That is enough for an advocate to know whether they can take the case.
