Special education and Section 504 advocates for Edison Township School District families in Edison.
1 based in New Jersey · 3 virtual advocates who work with New Jersey 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.
Edison parents tend to call at one of two moments. The first is before an initial evaluation and the second is after a service quietly disappears from the plan.
Before the meeting an advocate reads the current IEP against the evaluation reports, pulls the progress data to see whether the goals are actually being met, writes your concerns into one page, and sends it to the team in advance.
Edison Township School District keeps progress data on every goal in the plan. Ask for it as a table of dates and numbers rather than a paragraph.
No advocate in this directory lists Edison as their home base. These advocates work from other parts of New Jersey, and each card names the city.
Based in Hawthorne, NJ
IEP Consultant, School Social Worker, Advocacy
I am a Child Study Team School Social Worker, with a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. I have core competencies in special education law, mental health, and behavioral health.
These advocates are not based in New Jersey. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Cumming, GA · works with New Jersey schools
Founder
I’m Russell Lloyd, founder of YourChild.org, author, mentor, and special education advocate. I review the record, find the gaps, build the strategy, prepare the parent, and lead IEP meetings.
Virtual · based in Los Angeles, CA · works with New Jersey schools
Strategic Special Education Advocate
I combine the precision of a Columbia Law attorney with over a decade of special education leadership to help Los Angeles families navigate the IEP process with clarity, confidence, and results.
Virtual · based in Atlanta, GA · works with New Jersey schools
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.
See all 25 virtual advocates who work with New Jersey families
19 public schools inside Edison belong to Edison Township School District. 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.
Charter and magnet enrollment changes who owes the service. Ask which agency is responsible before the first meeting.
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 New Jersey district has 90 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 Edison 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.
New Jersey gives a school district 90 calendar days to finish an initial special education evaluation. A written request for an evaluation has to be answered inside 20 calendar days. Missed deadlines are handled by the New Jersey 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 New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education, and none of them is required to sit in a New Jersey IEP meeting.
A certificate says nothing about Edison Township School District. Ask instead what the advocate has filed there and what came back.
An advocate cannot make the district agree. What moves a district is the record you build, not the person sitting next to you, and a good advocate spends more hours on the record than in the room.
Edison Township School District answers to the parent on the paperwork, so an advocate can draft the letter and you still have to be the one who sends it.
Video is normal now. 25 of the advocates listed for Edison work with families by phone or video instead of driving to the school.
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 Edison, New Jersey, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
What is the hourly rate for a parent advocate?
Most advocates on this directory charge $75 to $150 per hour. A standard cycle with two hours of prep and two hours in the meeting runs about $400. Travel and extra meetings cost more.
Is an IEP advocate a type of lawyer?
Two different jobs. The advocate works the IEP process and the attorney works the legal one. If a hearing is already filed, you need the attorney.
Does Edison Township School District cover every Edison address?
Edison Township School District runs the IEP meetings for most Edison students. District lines and city lines are not the same, so confirm yours by address before you send a letter.
Can an advocate help with a 504 plan and not an IEP?
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.
Who investigates a school for missing an IEP deadline?
The New Jersey Department of Education takes written complaints from parents about missed deadlines and services never delivered. An advocate can prepare one. The advocate does not decide it and cannot make the district settle.
Official New Jersey links for parents in Edison.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same New Jersey rules apply in Lakewood, Woodbridge, Elizabeth, Toms River and the other cities listed here, or see every New Jersey advocate.
Print the current IEP and bring it to the first call. Every advocate on the Edison list will ask for it.
Do not sign anything at the first meeting if you are unsure. Consent can wait a day.
