AutismMomma711

I see what yall are saying, but this is not the first meeting that my father-in-law has attended. He has been with me to multiple meetings. He is not a practicing attorney. He works at a bank. Everyone at the meeting with me has been before, and it has never been an issue up until this point when I found out the school stopped providing services. Now, my husband is being treated differently in his job and they are threatening his job.

My son has level 3 autism and is functionally non-verbal. I discovered over the summer that the SLP and Sped teacher basically stopped providing my son's services right before spring break. I have documented proof that he missed 15 hours of speech therapy. I don't have any physical proof about the missed SPED pull outs, but my son's general ed teacher and his para have both told me that he missed a significant amount of SPED last school year. We had an IEP meeting to request compensatory education, and the school agreed to that. I brought along my father-in-law (an attorney who is not in practice) and my son's former ABA consultant. My husband is an administrator in another building in the district. Three days after the meeting, the superintendent of the district attempted to reprimand my husband for "bringing a lawyer" to the meeting and told him they would have had counsel at the meeting if they had known we were bringing a lawyer. My father-in-law has participated in meetings with us before and he was there as a grandfather and not as an attorney. I know my rights and that I can bring whomever I choose that has special knowledge of my child. What can I do about this retaliation? Ethics complaints? Any advice is greatly appreciated.