Deborah Bloom Educational Consultant

Since 1994, Deborah has worked throughout Northern California and the Bay Area as an Educational Consultant and Special Needs Advocate, assisting families with school planning for students in public schools, private schools and schools and programs that address special needs. She is a uniquely qualified consultant and advocate as a result of her many years of experience working with families with a wide range of issues, and understands the impact that an inappropriate school placement has on the family and student. She successfully advocates for students who's needs aren't being met by their current placement. When a student requires a non-public school or residential setting due to social and emotional difficulties; she sucessfully secures funding from school districts. Before becoming an educational consultant, she received a Master's Degree in Speech Pathology, and worked in several multi-disciplinary settings and schools in both the private and the public sectors, with a wide age range of students -- from pre-school to young adults -- with emotional, lea