Maria, Client

“My daughter is learning disabled and her needs were ignored by the school district for years. They never followed her recommended IEP, and when the elementary school gave her a 504 plan, at the start of Middle School the district removed the Plan without notifying me or my husband. The district gave my daughter a middle school diploma even though she had bad grades the whole time. In high school, she continued to struggle and started avoiding school. I didn’t know the law then. I am a Spanish-speaking immigrant and we don’t know what our legal rights are for school issues. I believed the school staff until I started to research how I could help my daughter. I decided I needed a lawyer to help me with this mess. I talked to 3 lawyers. They all told me there was nothing they could do until I found Tracey Walsh and I sent her all of the information. She told me she could help my daughter, and she did make this happen. She proved to our school district that, in fact, my daughter has a learning disability and ADD, and they finally offered to help my daughter without us having to go to court. Tracey’s legal service made the district pay for all requested testing to prove my daughter had a disability, and after that, the school district held a resolution meeting with us and placed my daughter in a school that can help her with her problems. The district stopped ignoring my requests for help because they didn’t want me to bring Tracey Walsh around. So now, my daughter is going to get the help that she needed for all these years, and only because of Tracey Walsh – she was the only lawyer that would get involved in my daughter’s case.”