Dr. Destiny Huff

Mental Health Therapist & Non-Attorney Special Education Advocate

What you’ll learn

Workshop 1: Advocating for Access, Not Just Compliance

How to ensure IEPs and 504 plans provide meaningful access and support rather than only meeting compliance requirements.
How to identify executive-function needs and secure specific accommodations for breaks, tools, movement, and communication.
Practical strategies for school meetings and advocacy, including when to involve a professional advocate or lawyer.

Workshop 2: When Behavior Is Actually Overwhelm

How challenging behavior may signal overwhelm or dysregulation rather than deliberate defiance, and how mislabeling it can create shame and avoidance.
Why understanding learner histories and involving students and families helps create accommodations that remove barriers and build self-advocacy.
Practical ways to support regulation, including flexible assignments, safe spaces, movement or breathing breaks, calming music, staff co-regulation, and a shame-free classroom culture.

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BIO

Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC, is a late-diagnosed Autistic and ADHD therapist, special education advocate, speaker, consultant, and parent of two neurodivergent learners. Through Destiny Huff Consulting, LLC, she supports families, educators, and organizations in understanding special education, IEP advocacy, neuroaffirming practices, disability inclusion, regulation, behavior through a needs-based lens, and the intersection of race, disability, and access.

Dr. Huff provides IEP coaching, parent consultation, professional development, trainings, consulting, digital resources, and courses designed to help families and school teams move beyond compliance and toward meaningful access, dignity, and learner-centered support. She is also the author of Neuroaffirming Advocacy: A Neuroaffirming Guide To Special Education Services, host and speaker for neuroaffirming summits, and co-host of The Affirming Village podcast, where she and Lisa Baskin Wright discuss parenting, advocacy, disability, education, and neurodivergent family life.

You can connect with Dr. Huff through Destiny Huff Consulting for coaching, consultation, trainings, books, freebies, summit resources, and advocacy tools that support neurodivergent and disabled learners at home, in school, and in the community.

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