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Meghan Moore, BCBA: Charlotte’s Special Education Advocate

Meghan Moore is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and credentialed special education professional based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She founded Mama Moore Advocacy to give families the expert, insider knowledge they need to navigate the IEP system with confidence, and get their children the services they deserve.

Who Is Meghan Moore?

Meghan Moore is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA #1-13-13571) and the founder of Mama Moore Advocacy, a special education advocacy practice based in Charlotte, NC. She holds a Master of Arts in Special Education from San Diego State University (SDSU) and has spent years working within school-based settings, giving her a direct, firsthand understanding of how IEP teams make decisions, what drives school district recommendations, and where families are most vulnerable to being underserved.

She now applies that insider knowledge entirely in the service of families, helping parents in the Charlotte metro area and nationwide navigate one of the most important, and most opaque, systems their children will ever interact with.

Credentials and Qualifications

Why Meghan Founded Mama Moore Advocacy

Working inside school systems, Meghan saw firsthand what most parents never get to see: how IEP teams discuss children before parents arrive, what drives recommendations toward certain placements or service levels, and how often families, through no fault of their own, walk out of IEP meetings with less than their child actually needs.

She also saw that the families who got the best outcomes were almost always the ones who came in prepared, who knew their rights, and who had someone in the room who could speak the school’s language back to them. Most families don’t have that. Mama Moore Advocacy exists to give every family that advantage, regardless of their background, education level, or familiarity with special education law.

What Meghan Does for Families

Meghan provides the full range of IEP advocacy services:

• ✓IEP document review, A detailed, clinical-plus-legal analysis of the IEP: goal quality, service hours, placement appropriateness, missing components, and language that should be changed before signing.
• ✓Evaluation review, Interpreting school evaluation reports with the depth of a BCBA, identifying what was missed, and advising whether an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE) is warranted.
• ✓IEP meeting attendance, In person throughout the Charlotte metro area and via Zoom for NC, SC, and national families. Meghan participates as a full IEP team member, takes detailed notes, and advocates in real time.
• ✓Pre-meeting preparation, Strategy sessions to identify priorities, anticipate the school’s position, and know exactly what to say, ask, and refuse to sign.
• ✓Behavioral IEP review, Clinical review of FBAs, BIPs, and behavioral goals on the IEP, an area where Meghan’s BCBA background is uniquely valuable.
• ✓Written advocacy, Drafting formal evaluation requests, dispute letters, IEE requests, and responses to Prior Written Notices.

Who Meghan Helps

Meghan works with families of children with any disability that may be eligible for special education services, including autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, learning disabilities, speech and language impairments, emotional and behavioral disorders, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, sensory processing challenges, traumatic brain injury, and more. She also works with families navigating 504 Plans and with parents of twice-exceptional (2e) children who are both gifted and learning-different.

Geographically, Meghan serves Charlotte and the surrounding metro area in person, including Cabarrus County, Union County, Iredell County, Mecklenburg County, Gaston County, and the York County/Fort Mill SC area, and serves families throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and nationwide via Zoom.

E-E-A-T: Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness

Every article, guide, and resource on the Mama Moore Advocacy website is written or reviewed by Meghan herself, not by a content agency or AI. The clinical and legal accuracy of the information reflects her real experience working inside school systems and advocating for hundreds of families at IEP tables. Credentials, licenses, and positions taken in this content are verifiable through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and through the NC and SC special education regulatory frameworks.

If you read something on this site and you’re not sure whether it applies to your situation, Meghan invites you to reach out directly. She’d rather have a five-minute conversation than have a family misapply general guidance to a complex situation.