How Can We Partner?

Educational Advocacy

Navigating the special education system is daunting. As an educational advocate, Ms. Edwards builds partnerships with parents, caregivers, and school teams to help ensure a child receives services and that their IEP or 504 plan is well designed and implemented with fidelity. She helps to address complex or emotional school based challenges and is strategic about process planning.

Advocacy Areas

IFSP development and transition planning
IEP development, monitoring, accountability
504 Plan development, monitoring, accountability
Transition Planning
Record Review
School Navigation
Meeting attendance
Referrals
Legal Proceedings
Collaboration with Special Education Attorneys

Family Coaching

Family coaching is a collaborative process that can support families in problem solving, answering developmental questions, creating opportunities within natural routines to support development, behavioral needs, and progress or to determine if educational advocacy may be beneficial

Family Coaching Areas

Assessing advocacy needs
Supporting families through difficult transitions
Building developmental activities into natural routines versus prescriptive therapy programs
Family rhythms: meal planning, daily living routines, executive functioning, transitions
Record reviews
Assessment interpretation and next step advice
Interpreting educational or medical recommendations
Weighing pros and cons
School placement decision making

School Supports

Sometimes communication between families and school teams breaks down and sometimes students have unique needs that require creative, solution generating teamwork to meet the student need. Schools can successfully rely on an impartial party like Ms. Edwards to broker relationships and produce outcomes.

School Support Areas

Mediation between school teams and families to bridge gaps and find common ground.
Team support to problem solve, discuss placement options, finalize IEP documents, and facilitate agreement around accommodations, environmental needs, assistive technology, adaptive equipment, and supplemental aides and services.
Facilitation of discussion around measurable goal development, accountability, and service hours.
Consultation around best practice, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in classrooms, environmental modifications, report interpretation, behavior planning ideas, sensory diets, and assistive technology.

Clinician Coaching

Having been a practice owner for nearly 25 years, Ms. Edwards knows how it can sometimes feel lonely at the top. Sometimes there isn’t someone to bounce an idea off, strategize a growth plan, effectively mitigate staff challenges, or to determine how to empower teams. For many years she has mentored young women to develop their confidence, step out on their own to develop a private practice, advocate for higher salaries, and learn to advocate for their clients.

Coaching Areas

Mentorship
Project development/management
Growth ideas
Sounding board
Confidence building

Ready to Partner?

Let's work together

If you are looking for support — let’s explore options for achieving your goals. Message me or book a free 20 minute consultation using the contact details provided.

I'm very thankful that Kristin Conaboy Edwards was assigned to us as an advocate when dealing with our local school district on behalf of our son. Initially we assumed that the district had our son’s best interest in mind, until he was halfway through his 1st grade year. I sought legal counsel, and through that process, Kristin was tasked to join us in school meetings when discussing issues like IEP planning. Kristin's experience allows her to know precisely what questions to ask during our meetings. I really wish we had someone of Kristin's expertise helping us during our son's kindergarten year.