Lafayette School Corporation staff run the IEP meetings in Lafayette. These advocates sit on your side of the table.
3 virtual advocates who work with Indiana 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.
Lafayette is the 10th-largest city in Indiana. Size has nothing to do with how well a district runs its IEP meetings, and a small district with one experienced case manager often does better than a large one.
Advocates also coach. Some Lafayette parents hire one for two hours of prep and go into the meeting alone.
Lafayette School Corporation keeps progress data on every goal in the plan. Ask for it as a table of dates and numbers rather than a paragraph.
These advocates are not based in Indiana. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Bloomington, IL · works with Indiana schools
Founder & Advocate
Jade is a former special education teacher who has taught everything from pre-k all the way to transition classrooms with students up to age 21.
Virtual · based in San Antonio, TX · works with Indiana schools
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Nicole Santiago is a learning specialist and an advocate (IEP coach). She is a member of COPAA.org and ensures special education students receive the most appropriate educational services possible.
Virtual · based in Coraopolis, PA · works with Indiana schools
Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Special Education Advocate
Hi there! I'm Brittany, owner and founder of Balanced Behaviors, LLC. I'm a Behavior Analyst and Licensed Behavior Specialist in Pennsylvania with a Master’s in Special Education from Slippery Rock…
11 public schools inside Lafayette belong to Lafayette School Corporation. Each one has its own case manager and its own backlog, and the answer you get about scheduling depends on which building your child attends.
District lines and city lines are not the same thing. A street can sit inside one city and be zoned to the district next door.
Confirm your child's district by address. Lafayette addresses may fall in more than one public school district.
A written request for an evaluation starts a second clock in Indiana, and the district has to answer inside 10 instructional days.
Keep every email. Most of what an advocate does with a Lafayette file is date-stamping what the school already told you.
Indiana gives a school district 50 instructional days to finish an initial special education evaluation. A written request for an evaluation has to be answered inside 10 instructional days. Missed deadlines are handled by the Indiana Department of Education, Office of Special Education, which takes written state complaints from parents.
Certification programs exist and some advocates hold them. None of them is issued by the Indiana Department of Education, Office of Special Education, and none of them is required to sit in an Indiana IEP meeting.
Lafayette School Corporation does not approve or bar advocates. Federal rules let a parent bring anyone with knowledge of the child to the meeting.
Hiring an advocate does not pause a deadline or undo a meeting that already happened. The work starts from wherever the Lafayette file sits today.
What worked for a family in Greenwood may not fit yours. Ask the advocate what is different about your file before you copy anyone.
No advocate is listed in every city. A remote advocate who knows Indiana rules is usually a better hire for Lafayette than a local one who does not.
Distance is a scheduling problem and not a legal one. Meetings run by video whenever the parent and the school both agree to it.
Answers about hiring a special education advocate in Lafayette, Indiana, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
What is the hourly rate for a parent advocate?
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.
Can I hire a virtual advocate if we live in Lafayette?
Yes, with one condition. The school has to agree to the meeting format, so put the request in writing before the date is set.
Does Lafayette School Corporation cover every Lafayette address?
Most of the city sits inside Lafayette School Corporation. The district writes the plan and holds the special education budget, which is why a complaint about a missed service names the district and not the school.
How do I get my child school records?
A district can charge for copies. Asking to inspect the record in person costs nothing under federal rules, and it is usually faster than waiting for a copy set.
Which plan covers therapy and specialized instruction?
An IEP is the stronger document because it carries goals, service minutes and progress reporting. Section 504 plans are faster to write and easier for a district to agree to.
Official Indiana links for parents in Lafayette.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same Indiana rules apply in Greenwood, Noblesville, Gary, Hammond and the other cities listed here, or see every Indiana advocate.
Send the same two questions to every advocate you contact in Lafayette and Greenwood. Ask for the rate and for the first date they can meet.
Two questions sort most of this out. What would you do first with this file, and what does that cost.
