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Five Specialists. Five Invoices. Or Just One VillageED Plan.

Team VillageED — July 15, 2026

For Families · Cost & Value

An advocate, an evaluator, a speech therapist, an OT, a counselor — see what five separate bills actually add up to, and what VillageED replaces them with.

Special education support rarely comes from one person. Most families end up with a small team scattered across different offices, different schedules, and different invoices — an advocate for the IEP, an evaluator for testing, a therapist for speech, another for OT, a counselor for behavioral support. VillageED puts that same team under one roof, on one plan. Here’s what the difference actually looks like in dollars:

Specialist	Typical Separate Cost	With VillageED
IEP Advocate	$75–$300/hour ($500–$2,500 per case)	Included in your plan
Evaluation	$2,500–$6,000+	Included in your plan
Speech Therapy	$100–$250/session	Included in your plan
Occupational Therapy	$100–$200/session	Included in your plan
Behavioral Support / Counseling	$100–$250/session	Included in your plan
Your VillageED Plan	—	$199.99/month (or $179.99/mo billed quarterly)

1:1 tutoring is priced as its own independent service, at $95/hour, separate from the plan above.

What five separate specialists really costs you

Five separate searches. Finding a good advocate, evaluator, and therapist each takes its own research, its own reviews, its own trial and error.
Five separate intake processes. Every new specialist starts from zero, learning your child's story again from the beginning.
Five separate invoices. Each on its own schedule, at its own rate, with no single view of what you're spending in a year.
Zero coordination. Nothing requires your evaluator to talk to your advocate, or your speech therapist to talk to your counselor — that connective work usually falls on you.

The real cost of "going it alone" isn't any single invoice. It's paying full price, five separate times, for a team that was always going to need to work together anyway.

Why one plan works better than five specialists

Every specialist above does real, valuable work on their own. The problem isn’t the people — it’s the seams between them. With VillageED, one organization builds your child’s IEP, runs the evaluation, and delivers the therapy, all from the same shared file, without you having to repeat the full history five times or reconcile five different opinions.

Worth remembering

Hiring specialists separately can still be the right call if you only need one specific thing, once. This is about what happens when you need more than one.
Families juggling five providers aren't disorganized. Five providers is genuinely hard to coordinate, no matter how on top of it you are.

Good to know: Every specialist you add separately is another invoice, another intake form, and another person who doesn't know what the last one said. A single plan removes all three at once, not just the cost.

What one team actually gives you

Picture the version of this where your child's IEP specialist, evaluator, and therapist all work out of the same organization, on the same platform, with access to the same file. That's not a hypothetical — it's what a VillageED plan looks like day to day:

One shared record, so nobody asks you to re-explain your child's history from scratch
Specialists who already have the IEP on hand when it's time for the evaluation, and the evaluation on hand when it's time for therapy
One monthly cost that replaces five separate invoices arriving on five separate days

Ready to stop managing five different invoices?

Talk with a VillageED specialist about what one coordinated plan could look like for your family.

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