Parents: If you think you’ve made a request for special education testing, but it wasn’t written, clean, concise, and clear… you didn’t.

In this short but powerful episode, Karen Mayer Cunningham, the Special Education Boss®, walks you through exactlywhat a formal request is — and what it isn’t.

No more:
🚫 "Hey Bob, can you check on that for me?"
🚫 "I’m on the PTA, they’ll take care of it."
🚫 Phone calls that go nowhere.

✅ You’ll leave this episode knowing exactly what to write, how to write it, and what happens next.

📌 Sample Script:
“Dear Staff, this is my formal request for my child, Billy Smith, to have special education testing. Areas of suspected disability are attention and learning issues. I look forward to your written response.”

No threats.
No legal code.
Just clean. Concise. Clear.

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👩‍⚖️ Hosted by Karen Mayer Cunningham, Advocate & Special Education Boss®
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