Nan Waldman, Esq.

In addition to my 'day job' (providing parents with counsel to protect their children's educational rights and to maximize their education benefits), I love teaching. I am a PRIDE Learning Center reading specialist.

I agreed to teach select students after school, on a 1:1 basis using PRIDE's systematic, progressive, organized and wonderful program, based on Orton-Gillingham's multisensory phonics training.

I worked at PRIDE three years ago -- and missed 1:1 teaching too much not to continue.

I counsel parents about parenting and education of students.

My 20+ years of experience include providing counsel for students who may be highly gifted; and providing counsel to families for IEPs, including teaching advocacy skills and providing strategies to families with students who may have disabilities or specific learning disabilities.

I teach education advocacy workshops for all professionals, as well as parents of students with learning disabilities (such as dyslexia, ADHD, autism, physical disabilities, other health impairments, hospitalization, auditory processing disabilities, visual processing disabilities).

I work hard to find effective strategies necessary for students facing environmental issues in school such as defiant behavior, depression, bullying and harassment.

I teach the 'how to's' of IEPs and student/family/school meetings to teach advocacy. Acquiring educational services and accommodations for students is necessary for their civil rights.

I teach special education advocacy to teachers and to related education and social service professionals.

Part of my job is knowing a student's learning abilities first hand, so I also provide private sessions.

Leading workshops and advocacy training to individuals and to groups of graduate students in medicine, law, nursing and social work, I use real vignettes and cases (redacted for privacy). Multidisciplinary learning teaches new professionals effective advocacy skills to use when addressing the rights of students and patients with disabilities.

Foundation, project AND case management at this non-profit organization supporting families devastated by the catastrophic impact of having to decide, during a child's last days or months, whether to remain at work keeping insurance intact, a roof overhead, and food in the refrigerator -- or to remain at the bedside of a dying child.

Representation, consultation and advocacy training for the holders of the educational rights of underserved students with disabilities.