An Interview with Kathleen Chamberlain: New IEP's in N.Y.

Michael Shaughnessy:

Kathleen Chamberlain is the president of East End Special Education Parents, a not for profit parent advocacy group. She is mother of a child with a disability and formed EESEP with other local parents whose children were also not getting the special education services they felt they were entitled to. In addition to advocating for children with disabilities, she owns her own financial services firm. She lives with her husband, and daughter on Eastern Long Island in New York.

1) First of all, you are President of EESEP. What exactly is EESEP and what are you trying to do?

East End Special Education Parents is a not for profit parent advocacy group.Our main goal is to teach parents how to advocate for their children with disabilities and we have been very effective doing so.So effective in fact that our members are routinely trashed at local Board of Education meetings and in the local papers by school district administrations because knowledge is power and the school districts have it and sped parents don't and they want to keep it that way.It's our goal to make sure that doesn't happen.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 27, 2008 1:01 AM
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