Your daughter comes home from school and drops her backpack on the kitchen counter. “I need to take the SAT,” she says. “And everyone’s signing up for prep courses.” You pull up the website for one of the big test prep companies. The numbers scroll past your eyes: You do the math. Two kids. That’s…

It’s 7:45 PM on a Thursday. You’re sitting at your kitchen table, surrounded by evaluation reports, progress notes, medical records, and a 40-page IEP draft from the school district. Your child’s IEP meeting is tomorrow morning at 9 AM. You’ve read the same paragraph five times, but the legal jargon still doesn’t make sense. You…