IEP and 504 Advocacy
If meetings keep ending with vague promises, delayed action, or a plan that does not feel right, Russell finds the issues the school must answer and fights for your child.
See detailsSpecial education advocate · Cumming & Forsyth County
A Special Education Advocate Who Lives and Works in Forsyth County.
If you are tired of being told your child is fine when you know they are not, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone. Russell Lloyd is a Cumming dad of three children with special needs and a professional advocate. When he sits down with you at a Forsyth County Schools meeting, the "let's wait and see" stops, and the school starts answering to what your child actually needs.
Learn moreForsyth County Schools
A High-Performing District Doesn't Mean Your Child Is Doing Fine.
Forsyth County Schools is a large, high-performing district, and that can make it harder to be heard when your child is struggling. Families often hear that grades look fine, that a child is "doing well for now," or that the team wants to keep monitoring. Russell helps you separate how a child looks on a report card from what the data, evaluations, and daily struggles actually show, and push for the support your child actually needs.
Russell can attend IEP, 504, and eligibility meetings in person at Forsyth County Schools campuses, or join live on video, on screen with the whole team.
Families Russell serves in Forsyth County include Cumming, South Forsyth, Vickery, Polo Fields, Big Creek, Lambert, and North Forsyth.
How Russell helps Forsyth County families
Pick the Help That Fits Where You Are Right Now.
Meeting Preparation
Walk into the meeting knowing what matters, what to ask, and what to say when the answer is vague or the pressure starts.
See detailsDocument Review
If you keep rereading the records and still cannot tell what the school missed, send the pile. Russell shows you what it actually means for your child.
See detailsAdvocacy Strategy Session
When everything feels tangled together and you no longer know where to begin, Russell helps you find the first move, and the ones that follow it.
See detailsSee every option and price on the advocacy services page.
Questions from Forsyth County parents
Can you attend an IEP meeting at my child's Forsyth County school?
Yes. Russell attends IEP, 504, and eligibility meetings in person at Forsyth County Schools campuses and can also join live on video, on screen with the whole team. Most families start with a free 15-minute consultation so he can understand the situation before the meeting.
The school says my child is doing fine academically. Can they still qualify for help?
Passing grades do not settle whether a child needs special education or a 504 plan. Federal law requires schools to evaluate a child suspected of having a disability even when the child is advancing from grade to grade. Russell helps you show what the grades are hiding and push for the evaluation your child needs.
What changes when Russell joins my child's meeting?
The school stops talking around you. Russell asks for the data behind every recommendation, challenges what does not add up, and keeps the conversation on your child, not on staffing or convenience. And you walk out feeling something you may not have felt in a long time: heard, and not alone.
Also serving
Other North Metro Atlanta Communities
Gwinnett County · Cherokee County · Alpharetta, Milton, Johns Creek & North Fulton
Russell works with families wherever they live in the United States by video. See how online advocacy works.
Talk with Russell
Don't Face Forsyth County Schools Alone.
Tell Russell what has you worried. In a free 15-minute call, he will tell you whether he can help and what to do next, before another week slips by.