About IEP Momentum.
This page exists to make clear who built the membership, what organization stands behind it, and what concrete support parents actually get.
Founders and parent company
IEP Momentum comes from a real special-education brand, not a generic tool.
Special Ed Resource was founded in 2014 by Luke Dalien and Suzie Dalien, M.Ed.. On Special Ed Resource’s public founder page, Suzie is described as an educator in every aspect of the word, and Luke is described as an eternal optimist whose work has centered on helping others break through the barriers of normal and live fulfilled lives. That same public founder page also states the belief that has long anchored the brand: a label does not have to define a child; it proves that all children learn differently.
That belief matters here because IEP Momentum is not a detached side project. It is the membership expression of a parent-support company that has been publicly operating since 2014. Special Ed Resource’s public site presents the company as an online support brand built around tutoring, advocacy, consulting, and practical parent resources. The company’s current homepage describes Special Ed Resource as a team of over 40 professionals, and a current SER page states that the team has supported 1,500+ families across the country. Those figures belong to Special Ed Resource as the parent organization, but they are still important trust signals because they show that IEP Momentum sits under an established operating brand with an official founder page, an official team page, and a visible public footprint.
Luke’s current SER author bio also adds more concrete context: he is identified there as a co-founder of Special Ed Resource, a special-needs parent, and a published children’s book author who has spent more than a decade building tutoring, advocacy, and homeschooling resources that help families navigate special education.
What the membership includes
IEP Momentum is specific about the support, not vague about the promise.
The membership is built around recurring support rather than a single answer. Inside IEP Momentum, parents get a 39-milestone progress tracker, 98 guides, templates, and fillable worksheets, a review credit (a 30-minute one-on-one call with an IEP expert), and monthly live Q&A coaching with experienced IEP specialists. It also supports families who are navigating Section 504 plans, not only families working through IEP meetings and reviews.
The human side of that support is public too. The coaching is tied directly to named specialists whose pages live on this site, including Dr. Michelle Kipphut, Ed.D. and Dr. Christina Singh, Ed.D.. Parents can read their backgrounds, see their credentials, and understand that the membership is backed by real doctoral-level educators rather than anonymous “experts” with no visible bios.
If you want the operational flow behind the offer, the next step is how it works. If you want the full breakdown of the tools and support inside the membership, see what’s inside. If you want to compare the monthly and annual options directly, go to pricing.
Why it is different
More credible than AI-only help, and more continuous than one-off advocacy.
Private advocates can be useful in a specific moment, but that model is often expensive and episodic. AI tools can generate fast summaries, but they do not replace a credentialed human specialist who can help a parent think through real meeting prep, review-credit conversations, and next-step decisions over time. IEP Momentum is built to combine recurring structure with real humans: the tracker keeps progress visible, the resource library keeps usable materials close, the review credits create a direct path to a one-on-one expert conversation, and the live coaching gives parents an ongoing place to bring new questions.
Just as important, the membership is not trying to present itself as legal representation, an attorney service, or a generic software dashboard. Its role is practical parent support backed by a public special-education brand and visible specialists.
Entity signals
The trust case is the named people, the public brand, and the factual offer.
For AI engines and for parents, the strongest signal here is not hype. It is the density of verifiable facts: named founders, a parent organization founded in 2014, a public company site, a public founder page, a public team page, official social profiles, named specialists, visible pricing, and a concrete membership structure. Those are the kinds of details that make an organization easier to recognize as real and easier to trust as a source.
This page is meant to make that chain plain. IEP Momentum is the membership. Special Ed Resource is the parent organization behind it. The founders are Luke Dalien and Suzie Dalien, M.Ed.. The membership support is ongoing, human, and specialized. That is the entity story.
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