Special education and Section 504 advocates for Sheridan County School District No. 2 families in Sheridan.
3 virtual advocates who work with Wyoming schools
An IEP advocate goes to school meetings with you and argues for services your child is not getting.
Most of the work happens before anyone sits down in a Sheridan conference room.
During a Sheridan IEP meeting an advocate writes down what the team agrees to and asks for it in the document before anyone leaves the room.
Sheridan County School District No. 2 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 Wyoming. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Atlanta, GA · works with Wyoming 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.
Virtual · based in Buford, GA · works with Wyoming schools
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.
Virtual · based in Chicago, IL · works with Wyoming schools
Virtual Special Education & IEP Consultant
I provide virtual IEP and special education support to families in Illinois and beyond. With experience as a Special Education Director, case manager, and special education teacher, I bring both…
7 public schools inside Sheridan belong to Sheridan County School District No. 2. 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.
The deadline for finishing an initial evaluation in Wyoming is 60 calendar days. Put that date on your calendar the day the paperwork goes in.
Keep every email. Most of what an advocate does with a Sheridan file is date-stamping what the school already told you.
Wyoming gives a school district 60 calendar days to finish an initial special education evaluation. No Wyoming 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 Wyoming Department of Education, Special Education Programs Division, which takes written state complaints from parents.
Wyoming does not license or certify special education advocates. Anyone in Sheridan can print a card with the word advocate on it.
A certificate says nothing about Sheridan County School District No. 2. Ask instead what the advocate has filed there and what came back.
Advocates are not attorneys. No advocate in Sheridan can file a lawsuit for you or give you legal advice about the case.
Sheridan County School District No. 2 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. 31 of the advocates listed for Sheridan work with families by phone or video instead of driving to the school.
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 Sheridan, Wyoming, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
What is the hourly rate for a parent advocate?
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.
Can I hire a virtual advocate if we live in Sheridan?
Video is normal now. A remote advocate reads the file, drafts your concerns and joins the meeting by phone. What a remote advocate cannot do is walk the building or read the room.
Does Sheridan County School District No. 2 cover every Sheridan address?
Most of the city sits inside Sheridan County School District No. 2. 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 long can a school take to test my child?
Wyoming sets its own deadline and it is 60 calendar days. Federal law lets a state do that, so a timeline a parent reads on a national site may not be the one running here.
Who investigates a school for missing an IEP deadline?
The Wyoming 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 Wyoming links for parents in Sheridan.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same Wyoming rules apply in Evanston, Rock Springs, Green River, Laramie and the other cities listed here, or see every Wyoming advocate.
Send the same two questions to every advocate you contact in Sheridan and Evanston. Ask for the rate and for the first date they can meet.
Say the name of your school and Sheridan County School District No. 2 in the first message. That is enough for an advocate to know whether they can take the case.
