Parent Consultation and IEP Support

Help navigating special education: reading the file, understanding the evaluation, and sitting at the IEP table. An IEP (Individualized Education Program) is the plan public schools write for students who qualify for special education; the process around it has its own language, timelines, and rules, and we work inside it every week.

What we help with

Special education file review

An informal read-through of your child's records, evaluations, and IEP with a verbal debrief, or a formal written review you can bring to the school. We flag what is missing, what the data actually shows, and what to ask for.

Translating an evaluation into a plan

A plain-language explanation of what the standard scores mean for how your child learns, and an individualized learning plan built from them: which intervention, at what frequency, starting where.

IEP meeting attendance

We attend IEP meetings with you, billed hourly. We help you prepare questions beforehand, speak to the instructional evidence in the meeting, and debrief what was and was not agreed to afterward.

Mediation support

When you and the school disagree about services, mediation is a formal option under special education law. We help you prepare the instructional case: what has been tried, what the progress data shows, and what to request instead.

Finding the right tutor

If PSL is not the fit for your child's needs, schedule, or location, we help you vet other providers: which credentials matter for your child's profile, what questions to ask, and what progress should look like.

Learning support for the adults

Guidance for the people teaching your child: how to run home practice that reinforces intervention, and training for a classroom teacher or ed tech who wants to support your child well.

How pricing works

Consultation is billed at $125 per hour.

The first hour of consultation is waived for families of current PSL students. Scope is set at the free consultation, so you know the estimated hours before anything is scheduled.

$125

per hour

First hour waived for current PSL families

Lisa Murphy, founder of Pine State Learning

Start with a free 15-minute consultation.

This quick conversation helps us hear your concerns and guide you to the next steps. We will get you set up to start tutoring, an independent academic evaluation, or a home learning kit, or send you to the professionals who can help if we cannot. If asynchronous works better for your schedule, please feel free to send an email with your initial questions.

Book a free 15-minute consult

207.426.4267 lisa.murphy@pinestatelearning.com

Our Commitment to Equity

We are committed to working against the way that racial and socioeconomic privilege manifests itself in the identification and remediation of learning disabilities.

We do what we can by offering need based scholarships, providing services in some of Maine's lowest resource schools, and working pro-bono with grant based educational advocates for Maine's most economically disadvantaged students with the toughest cases. This is how we do what we can to help ALL students get what they need.