Based in Newcastle, OK
Lyndon Parker
Special Education Advocate - IEP Consultant
Former special education teacher and educational advocate with experience on both sides of the IEP table.
- From $65 per hour
- Meets in person or by video
IEP advocates in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa Public Schools staff run the IEP meetings in Tulsa. These advocates sit on your side of the table.
1 based in Oklahoma · 3 virtual advocates who work with Oklahoma schools
What an IEP advocate is
Advocates work for you, not for the school. That is the whole difference.
The search usually starts the week a parent reads an evaluation report and cannot tell from it whether Tulsa schools are offering enough.
Before and after a Tulsa IEP meeting
Paperwork is where cases are won or lost, and an advocate who has read every progress report in the file will find the sentence a Tulsa team wrote two years ago that contradicts what it is saying now.
Note what changed at home. Teachers see one room for one hour and parents see the rest of the day.
Advocate based in Oklahoma
No advocate in this directory lists Tulsa as their home base. These advocates work from other parts of Oklahoma, and each card names the city.
Virtual advocates who work with Oklahoma families
These advocates are not based in Oklahoma. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Buford, GA · works with Oklahoma schools
Dr. Mary Jo Ray-Jewett
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.
- From $100 per hour
- Meets in person or by video
Virtual · based in Katy, TX · works with Oklahoma schools
Sunnye Garza
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.
- From $100 per hour
- Meets in person or by video
Virtual · based in Leesburg, FL · works with Oklahoma schools
Evelyn Roman-Santos
CEO IEP Advocate Espanol
Evelyn Roman-Santos is a bilingual Special Education Advocate with 30 years of experience as a School Social Worker.
- From $120 per hour
- Meets in person or by video
See all 30 virtual advocates who work with Oklahoma families
The district behind a Tulsa IEP
66 public schools inside Tulsa belong to Tulsa Public Schools. 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.
Families who move between Norman and here change districts, and the new team is not required to keep the old plan word for word.
- District Tulsa Public Schools
- County Tulsa County
- Public schools inside Tulsa 66
- Size Tulsa is the 2nd-largest city in Oklahoma by the 2024 Census estimate
- Closest listed advocate Newcastle, OK
Confirm your child's district by address. Tulsa addresses may fall in more than one public school district.
What the clock is here
No Oklahoma deadline applies to a written evaluation request. Federal rules still require a response within a reasonable time.
If the Tulsa team says no, ask for the refusal in writing.
Oklahoma gives a school district 45 school days to finish an initial special education evaluation. No Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma State Department of Education, Special Education Services, which takes written state complaints from parents.
No license, no required certification
The Oklahoma State Department of Education oversees special education in Oklahoma. It does not license the advocates parents hire.
Ask what training the advocate actually finished and who ran it. A one-day webinar and a two-year program both end in a certificate.
Where advocacy stops
No advocate can promise a placement or an outcome in Tulsa. Anyone who does is selling you something.
Advocates who have never seen the file cannot tell you what is missing from it. Send the records first and book the call second.
Who serves Tulsa today
Being listed for Oklahoma is not the same as taking Tulsa cases, so read the service area on each of the 1 in-state profiles before you write to anyone.
Advocates who take Norman cases usually take these too. Say where you are in the first email so nobody wastes a week finding out.
Tulsa IEP and Section 504 advocate FAQ
Answers about hiring a special education advocate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
What do special education advocates charge in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Flat fees are common for a single meeting and hourly billing is common for everything else. Many advocates give a free first call. Nobody bills you through this site, so ask each person how they invoice.
Do I need an advocate for a routine annual review?
No fixed trigger exists. The useful test is whether you can tell from the paperwork what the school is actually offering, and whether the last thing you asked for came back in writing.
Can we work with an advocate who lives outside Oklahoma?
Yes, with one condition. The school has to agree to the meeting format, so put the request in writing before the date is set.
Who runs special education for Tulsa schools?
Tulsa Public Schools runs the IEP meetings for most Tulsa students. District lines and city lines are not the same, so confirm yours by address before you send a letter.
Do I have to use an advocate from my own town?
Every card on this page names the city the advocate works from. Advocates listed under the virtual heading live somewhere else and work with families here by video or phone.
Official special education resources in Oklahoma
Official Oklahoma links for parents in Tulsa.
Sources for the Oklahoma rules on this page
- Oklahoma Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026 (OSDE) (Oklahoma Special Education Policies and Procedures 2026, chapter 5)
- Oklahoma Statutes Title 70 (current compilation) (70 O.S. 13-101.2)
- OSDE IDEA complaint
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
Nearby cities in Oklahoma
The same Oklahoma rules apply in Norman, Oklahoma City, Broken Arrow, Edmond and the other cities listed here, or see every Oklahoma advocate.
Before you contact anyone
If nobody here fits, check the Norman page next. The same Oklahoma rules apply there.
Keep a one-page timeline of what happened and when. Every advocate you talk to will start by building the same thing.
