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Understand your child’s IEP.
Know what to ask.

Upload your child’s IEP for a detailed review of the concerns, evidence and questions to bring to the school.

Built from Mary’s 15+ years in special education.

Free IEP review · No credit card

Mary, co-founder of The Advocate Ally

Built on Mary’s 15+ years in special education.

Mary, co-founder and special education advocate

2,000+families helped with free resources
10,000+followers across social media
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What we do

We review your child’s IEP, along with any evaluations or progress reports you upload. We look at the goals, services and accommodations to find gaps, inconsistencies and questions worth raising with the school.

You get a free, plain-language report explaining each potential concern, the supporting evidence and what to ask next. When information is missing or a page cannot be read, the report says so.

How your IEP is reviewed

Mary has read more than 1,000 IEPs in 15+ years as a teacher, administrator and advocate. The problems she kept finding became the checks behind this review. 28 AI specialists run those checks on your records, compare what they find, and keep the evidence with each finding.

The review reads your records, checks applicable criteria, compares supporting documents, checks the evidence, and organizes your findings. The IEP Meeting Kit is an optional next step.

This is what a finished review looks like.

It is a sample, with the same depth yours will have. Pick a topic to read what was found, the passages it rests on, and the question to ask the school.

Then take it into the meeting.

Pick the concerns you want to raise. For each one you get the words to say, what to ask for, and what to say if the team pushes back. There is a packet to print, an email to send before the meeting, and one to send after. Note what was decided in the room and the follow-up email is drafted from your notes. On sale for $33 (was $68), once, after the free IEP review.

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How we handle what you upload

Your files are used to build your review and for nothing else. Here is what happens to them, and what the review can and cannot do.

  • The review is automated. It reads your records and shows you where to look.
  • It is not legal advice and it is not a grade. Coverage numbers are checklist coverage, nothing more.
  • Mary does not personally review every report. If you want a person in the room, that is a separate service.
Read it when you have time

The review stays in your account. Come back to it the night before the meeting, or a month later.

Only you can open it

Your review is behind your own sign-in. Your child’s information stays with the account that uploaded it.

Delete it whenever you want

Deleting the review deletes the uploaded files with it.

The review costs nothing

No card, no trial. The IEP Meeting Kit is optional, on sale for $33 (was $68), and you see every page before you pay.

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Mary, co-founder of The Advocate Ally
MaryCo-founder, special education advocate

15+ years in special education. More than 1,000 IEP meetings beside families.

  1. Teacher
  2. Administrator
  3. Advocate
  4. Co-founder

Mary has spent her career in special education, as a teacher, an administrator and an advocate, and has helped thousands of families one-on-one. Now she and her son Graham are building the tools that can help every family with an IEP.

The free IEP review is automated. Mary does not personally review every report.

Questions parents ask

Is the review really free?
Yes. Upload the IEP, read every concern, and keep the review in your account. There is nothing to buy. The IEP Meeting Kit is optional, on sale for $33 (was $68), and you can preview it before you decide.
What do I need to upload?
The current IEP is enough to start. Progress reports, evaluation reports and letters from the school help the review check records against each other, so add them if you have them.
My IEP is a scan or photos. Does that work?
Yes. Scanned PDFs and clear photos are read with text recognition. If a page cannot be read, the review names it as a page it could not check rather than guessing.
How long does it take?
Most reviews finish in a few minutes. You can close the page; your dashboard shows progress and the review waits for you there.
Is my child’s information safe?
Files are scanned before they are read, review content is encrypted before it is stored, and only your signed-in account can see it. Delete the review and its files are deleted with it. Unfinished uploads are removed automatically after 72 hours. The privacy policy has the full detail.
Does this replace an advocate or attorney?
No. The review is automated and is not legal advice or a grade. It helps you prepare and ask better questions. For legal questions, talk with an advocate or an attorney. If you want a person beside you in the meeting, Full Advocacy is a separate service.

Get a free IEP review for your child.

Upload the IEP. In a few minutes you have every concern, the passages behind it, and the questions to ask. Built from Mary’s 15+ years in special education.

No card needed. Your review stays in your account.