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Do you feel you are pulling teeth to get your child educated?

If so, you are not alone.

About Michelle

With 30 years’ experience in Special Education as a certified teacher, school administrator, advocate, and attorney, in settings from urban to rural, Michelle Kotler, Esq. has seen it all (well, almost all).

At the heart of your child’s journey is the correct evaluation and identification of his or her special needs. Very often, children suffer in silence from processing disorders that are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as other conditions. These youth are never truly helped because the real underlying difficulties are not correctly identified, resulting in frustration & school failure.

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MICHELLE KOTLER'S CREDENTIALS

Experience and knowledge:

Ms. Kotler has the experience and knowledge to guide parents in their quest to “get to the bottom of it” and figure out what is really happening so that you can help your child succeed.

Consultation and advocacy:

Ms. Kotler previously provided consultation and advocacy for families seeking to help their children receive an appropriate public education.

Expertise:

Having served for almost 30 years as a certified special education teacher, school administrator, department chair, program developer, evaluator and educational diagnostician, compensatory education service provider, advocate, and attorney, Ms. Kotler has a unique perspective that few others can match.

Awarded:

Ms. Kotler won the James E. Rosner Award for Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities from the Baltimore ARC. Recipient, Sharon Christa McAuliffe Scholarship in Special Education; Recipient, Fellowship, Department of Special Education, University of Maryland; Board Member, Bright Minds Processing; Past Board Member, ARC of Montgomery County, Maryland

IN THE MEDIA

Michelle in the media

Undiagnosed vision disorder causes reading problems in kids

Many kids are suffering from visual processing disorder, and it’s keeping a countless number of undiagnosed children from being able to read.

 

Michelle Kotler talks about legislation for kids. Bright Minds Processing

Michelle Kotler talks about legislation for kids with VPD.

 

 

 

How Can We Raise Awareness of Visual Processing?

If a child can’t hear instructions properly or process what they see, how can we expect them to succeed academically? Awareness and early intervention are crucial.
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