JULIA A. BROOKS, BCEA

• Julia is the CEO and Sr. Consultant at Paradigm Shift Consulting Group LLC. She consults in PA, NJ, NY, DE, and MA.
• Julia is a Board Certified Education Advocate. 
  
• She is an author. "Gotta Text!: Reminders to Live out the Gospel Through Every Day Encounters" by Julia A. Brooks
  
• She is the NSEAI Librarian and National Consultant that manages the National Ability Center and NSEAI Resource Library at the NSEAI national offices,

Julia's perseverance, perspective, and persuasiveness makes her an effective education consultant. She developed perseverance over twenty-five years of navigating through the maze of her son's legal rights, education proficiencies, transitions from school districts to adult services, and more. Julia acquired her perspective for engaging individuals with disabilities in classrooms and community environments with more than 10 years of experience as an adjunct professor whose discipline focused on student-centered planning. She has a track record of creating collaborative opportunities for her son by working with professionals and service providers to implement measurable progress in education and service plans and instructs families to utilize a similar team setting. As an advocate and education consultant, her approach to child/adult-centered planning is applied through the following goals:

1. Identifying education related needs through the use of appropriate school district testing or independent evaluations.

2. Evaluate appropriate educational and behavioral interventions including least restrictive environment placement, educational programming, specially designed instruction, inclusion opportunities, transition goals and progress plans.

3. Recommend appropriate educational and behavior interventions as well as community, state and federal programs.

4. Empower and educate parents and students so that they can advocate independently within multi-system programs for their unique needs

5. Resolve conflicts when possible, avoiding costly due process hearings and insurance or service agency denials.

Most importantly, Julia creates a safe space for children and adults to express their concerns and provides them with the confidence necessary to become fierce advocates for themselves and their families.

Julia Brooks manages the National Ability Center and NSEAI Resource Library at the NSEAI national offices, where she professionally provides access to 1000's of resources, information, technical guidance and special education advocacy consulting with our coast to coast visitors, as the NSEAI Librarian and national consultant. Julia gives back to her community weekly with her probono services, and her amazing organizational and advocacy skills that made this library come to life and accessible for free to the public.

The NSEAI Special Education Resource Library provides guidance and professional development resources on behalf of students with disabilities.  The NSEAI Ability Center provides an extensive and current collection of research, reference, instructional materials, and resources related to special education, special education law, related services as well as  behavioral and social skill interventions.

Julia manages the extensive resources with a focus on assisting special education students, advocates, educators, clinical professionals, college/university students, parents of special education students, attorneys and community members. By providing access to CURRENT and ACCURATE information about special education, advocacy, law, research based programming and how children with different disabilities learn, positive educational and functional life outcomes for all learners can be achieved.

A Library like this has never before been offered to the public for free. It exceeds the quality of special education books and resources that can be found in any one place as compared to ALL area university libraries on the EAST COAST!  We actually compared them. Many of the books are from specialty publishers who normally sell only to restricted-access professional libraries and  therefore are not easily available to the general public. There is an extensive collection of publications regularly used by school district administrators and Special Education lawyers that are not usually or easily available to parents, thus leveling the field for parents.