Bridging the Achievement GAP
- Expert individual student case reviews
- IDEA IEP & 504 eligibility meeting support
- Data-centered, test score achievement progress review
- IEP goals & accommodations
- FBA and BIP intervention plan
- School meetings support
- Expert report writing
- School quality comparisons
- Expert witness testimony
Services
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING
School policies can be complex. An advocate make sense of the complex so your child can achieve more school success How? (1) Problem focused root cause analysis; (2) Analysis of psychological/neurological assessment reports; (3) Review of school reports, report cards, and school reports; (3) IDEA & 504 eligibility meeting planning help (4) IEP goal writing (5) Research evidence-based program analysis; (6) School comparisons. (7) Staff training; (8) Virtual meeting attendance as your advocate (9) Document writing (10) Complaint and due process writing and meeting support
REMOVING IEP ROADBLOCKS
Roadblock removing skills include sharing (1) Understanding of regulations under IDEA and ESSA Acts; (2) Special education eligibility criteria for autism, dyslexia, developmental delay, intellectual disability, specific learning disability, ADHD and emotional disability; (3) IDEA vs 504 regulations, (4)How to organize data to attain services and to monitor your child’s reading, math and other academic skill progress.
COSTS
An initial 30 minute call to see if can help is free. Initial Intake plan fee is $250. That includes: record review, an extended intake meeting to learn more about what is going on at school; attendance at the first school meeting either child find, eligibility, or iep gaosl writing and plannning emails or phone conversations we may have had prior to that meeting. Further meetings or consults are billed at a rate of $90 per hour; Hearing or court testimony if needed is billed at a rate $125 per hour.
F.A.Q
Where did Dr. Ross-Kidder go to school?
- University of Virginia, Currently taking courses Curry Graduate School of Education, Curriculum and Special Education,
- PH.D. George Washington University, Developmental Psychology D Dissertation: Using Wechsler index/ factor score analysis to predict Ritalin medication responders among an ADHD referred population of children and adolescents; Committee: Dr. Robert F. Smith, GMU, Brain and Behavior; Dr. Richard Walk, GWU, Perceptual development infants on; Dr. Linda Brandt, GWU, Developmental
- MA Clinical Psychology, George Mason University Supervised training Children's National Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry, Washington DC;
- George Mason University MA Experimental Psychology: Thesis: Stimulus Familiarization Effect in Children.
- University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Curriculum Development
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, BA,
- Farmington High School, MI, Grade 12
- Richview Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada Grades 7-11.
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How much do your services cost?
How much does it cost to hire you as an educational advocate?Cost of services is:
- Initial 30 minute consultation no cost.
- Initial retainer fee $250 that includes 1 hour phone or online consultation meeting, student school record review; attendance at one virtual school meeting.
- Additional time to write reports, attend additional virtual meetings or discuss case issues using the phone or email billed at $90.. per hour.
- Expert hearing or court testimony billed at $125.00
- School extensive school comparison reports for custody school placement decisions $1500.( $750 due in advance final due prior to receiving final report.)
- Help writing a state complaint- $500 ($250 required in advance)
- Help writing due process hearing request $2000 ($1000 due in advance final amount due upon completion of final document for submission to hearing officer requesting ruling. Cost does not include attending prehearing meetings, resolution meetings, or actual hearing. those will be billed at $90 per hour.)
- All other services or meeting attendances are billed at the rate of $90.00 per hour.
What is Dr. Ross-Kidder's professional experience in education?
Extensive experience and training in the fields of psychology and education.
- Virginia licensed school psychologist
- Virginia licensed clinical psychologist
- Over 30 years university faculty teaching courses on infant, child, adolescent development; learning, perception, abnormal and introductory psychology
- Reviewed graduate student assessment & psychological report writing ;
- Dissertation committee member
- Summer equal opportunity college transition instructor
- Psychologist 10 years completing all psychological and educational assessments in a child/adolescent psychiatric practice
- School psychologist, Fairfax County Schools, Virginia
- Psychologist in residential program for children with severe emotional problems due to abuse;
- Former Director LDOnline (www.ldonline.org) at WETA
- Developed and presented 3-day national GED, Accommodating Accommodations training program to all state and territory directors of adult education on the needs of individuals with disability using assessment results to request GED test accommodations and to help direct vocational goals.
- Funded grants writer NICHY and national trainer for adult vocational educational instructors through SUNY, Buffalo;
- ADA accommodations reviewer for GED and national professional teaching standards teacher requests for accommodations when taking licensing tests.
- National conference presenter NASP & GED;
- Extensive review of current special education research and journal articles on the needs of students with disabilities;
- High school teacher, History, French, Civics Michigan & Missouri
- Middle School teacher, Ann Arbor
- Model teacher University of Michigan Laboratory School, Ann Arbor, inclusive, child centered program. Supervised U of M student teachers;
- Preschool teacher
- Head Start assistant teacher
- Supervised student teaching Ann Arbor Middle School
Does Dr. ross-Kidder have experience as a clinical psycholgist?
- Professional Clinical Experience
- Dr. Ross Kidder had a private practice in Vienna VA sharing an office with a psychiatrist who specialist in treating adolescents and adults;
- She moved to her own practice in Culpeper Virginia where she worked with families of preschool, adolescent to young adult on emotional issues related to abuse, trauma, and school struggles due to learning disabilities, dyslexia, intellectual disability, autism, and significant behavioral disturbance.
- Post COVID consults virtually from her home office in Locust Grove Va.
- Her focus today is as a special education advocate helping parents achieve services for struggling children under provisions of Child find, IDEA, and ADA
- Children's National Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Amy Livingood
- Fairfax County Public Schools, Jean Howery, MA;
- Clinical supervision for licensure Ruth Gross, Ph.D.
- Dr. Ross-Kidder is a Virginia licensed psychologist.
- A clinical focus has been providing comprehensive psycho/educational assessments especially to diagnose specific learning disabilities, dyslexia, intellectual disabilities and emotional disorder. Today her focus is to provide expert review of assessments in those areas done by others when parents, lawyers or schools need further understanding of report information.
Contact
- Virginia, United States
- Virtual meetings
- +1-540-388-2172 - Dr. Ross-Kidder
- advocacy4ED@gmail.com
- 24 hours online
Let me know if you would like to schedule an initial 30 minute consultation at no cost to look at what is not working. National consulting available. Virginia is a PSYPAT state with license reciprocity with most states. Office location Cornwallis Ave. Locust Grove VA. 22508
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