Advocates here work with Tigard families and Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J teams. Each profile lists a rate when the advocate shares one.
3 virtual advocates who work with Oregon 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 Tigard conference room.
During a Tigard 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 Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J, not with the front office of one building, and a request addressed to the district gets a faster answer than one that is not.
These advocates are not based in Oregon. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Coraopolis, PA · works with Oregon 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…
Virtual · based in Wesley Chapel, FL · works with Oregon schools
Special Education Advocate
With 24 years of experience in the K-12 sector, I serves as a Student Support Specialist specializing in academic and behavioral ESE services.
Virtual · based in Newcastle, OK · works with Oregon schools
Special Education Advocate - IEP Consultant
Former special education teacher and educational advocate with experience on both sides of the IEP table.
Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J met 45 of 65 state special education indicators in the most recent Oregon report.
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.
No Oregon deadline applies to a written evaluation request. Federal rules still require a response within a reasonable time.
Ask the Tigard 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.
Oregon gives a school district 60 school days to finish an initial special education evaluation. No Oregon 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 Oregon Department of Education, Office of Enhancing Student Opportunities, which takes written state complaints from parents.
Oregon does not license or certify special education advocates. Anyone in Tigard can print a card with the word advocate on it.
Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J does not approve or bar advocates. Federal rules let a parent bring anyone with knowledge of the child to the meeting.
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.
What worked for a family in Albany 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 Tigard meeting date is the wrong hire, and the second-best advocate who is free this month usually beats the best one who is not.
Ask for two references from cases like yours. Somebody who cannot produce one has not worked many.
Answers about hiring a special education advocate in Tigard, Oregon, 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.
Does Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J cover every Tigard address?
Most of the city sits inside Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J. 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.
Does Tigard have a good special education program?
The state publishes a district report every year. In the latest one Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J met 45 of 65, and the link sits with the district facts on this page.
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?
Written complaints go to the Oregon Department of Education. It decides on the paperwork rather than at a hearing, so dates and documents are what the decision turns on.
Official Oregon links for parents in Tigard.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same Oregon rules apply in Albany, Springfield, Corvallis, Lake Oswego and the other cities listed here, or see every Oregon advocate.
Print the current IEP and bring it to the first call. Every advocate on the Tigard list will ask for it.
Say the name of your school and Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J in the first message. That is enough for an advocate to know whether they can take the case.
