am amazed that despite Sec. DeVos’ attempts to erase students rights, the OCR tried to get something right. The OCR tried to get it right, but got it wrong. Unless the advocate, disabled or not, was a part of the IEP team, said request of accommodation(s) for the advocate is supposed to go through the parent(s). Parent(s) “are” an intricate member of the IEP team and as the advocate was introduced via said parent(s), it was up to the parent(s) to ensure all the needs of the advocate was met. Spec. Ed. laws gives no protection for any advocate, the protections are “only” afforded to students and their parent(s) and there is no ambiguity in the laws. As the parent of a former Spec. Ed. student, if I wanted an advocate for my child or myself, to participate; then it was up to me to ensure that the school was aware of any requests and/or needs of said advocate. An advocate could not make a meeting, so I had to arrange a time suitable for everyone with tele-conferencing for the advocate.