Special Education Law and Advocacy
Serving students with special needs and their families throughout California.
Creative solutions to get your children the assessments, supports and accommodations they need.
Hello, welcome to Harman-Holmes Law, APC. This firm is the culmination of sixteen years of practice as a fierce litigator and eleven years of advocating for my three children with IEPs. Whether you need help with your child’s IEP, a due process complaint, regional center services, or IHSS, I can help.
I believe that radical collaboration is the best way to get our children the support they need as soon as possible. Open, transparent communication between families and schools is the best way to make sure all of us can be on the same page about our children’s education. When collaboration fails, you need a skilled and knowledgable attorney on your side.
At HHL you get the bridge-building of an advocate paired with the killer instincts of a career-long litigator. I am thrilled to be able to bring all of my skills to the most important work of all - helping our children thrive.
Contact Us
ariel@harmanholmeslawapc.com
(646) 345-8660
Areas of Practice
IEPs
Don’t let school districts intimidate you into signing off on an IEP that doesn’t adequately support your child. From radical collaboration to fierce advocacy, we have so many tools to get you the IEP your child needs.
Mediation, ADR, IDR, and Due Process
When the IEP process breaks down it can be very stressful. We will fight for you to get your child the right placement, the right goals, and the right services as quickly as possible.
Regional Center Services and IHSS
For when you and your child need support outside of school, we’re here to guide you through the often confusing maze of regional center services and IHSS.
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments… It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
– Justice Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)