{"id":13544,"date":"2015-12-17T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/new\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2015-12-17T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T20:19:51","slug":"advocacy-what-do-i-need-to-do-to-become-an-educated-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/advocacy-what-do-i-need-to-do-to-become-an-educated-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy: WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO BECOME AN EDUCATED CONSULTANT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Advocacy%3A%20WHAT%20DO%20I%20NEED%20TO%20DO%20TO%20BECOME%20AN%20EDUCATED%20CONSULTANT%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Melissa: I am a \u201cseasoned\u201d special education teacher looking to retire in a few years. I am also the mother of a child with autism. My dream job is to be a consultant (advocate) for parents. I am not looking for compensation. I understand both sides. What do I need to do to become an educated consultant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa: I am a \u201cseasoned\u201d special education teacher looking to retire in a few years. I am also the mother of a child with autism. My dream job is to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/advocacy-what-do-i-need-to-do-to-become-an-educated-consultant\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-a"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13563,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/13563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}