Director of Advanced Advocacy Solutions and owner of Closson Group. |
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About Dr. Robert Closson
Dr. Robert Closson, Ed.D., is the director of Advanced Advocacy Solutions and owns Closson Group. He advocates on behalf of special needs students throughout California, Nevada and Oregon and is listed on California’s Office of Administrative Hearing’s website. Dr. Closson earned his Doctorate from the University of the Pacific (UOP) and earned his M.B.A. and B.A. from the University of San Francisco (USF). He has written 42 articles of scholar over the last 10-years, four of which were at the request of State Bar of California. Dr. Closson focuses his practice on IEP representation as well as matters pertaining to due process and the discipline of special education students. He is a veteran of more than 800 IEP meetings over the last 16-years and is one of the leading authorities on the subject of IEP procedure in the State of California — if not the Nation. Dr. Closson is currently writing a book on IEP’s and is co-writing software on the subject of special education law.
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Of recent date, Dr. Closson joined National Business Institute’s (NBI) distinguished faculty as a Special Education Law instructor. In December of 2015, NBI sponsored Dr. Closson’s lectures in Redding, Sacramento, San Jose and Fresno California. The attorneys who attended received six units of continuing education credit by the State Bar of California. The school board members and special education administrators who attended received a state-of-the-art education on legal requirements of IDEA, IEP’s, Due Process and more. Dr. Closson was independently rated by NBI [all attendees] as good or excellent.
"The only way we can be there for our children is to be there for ourselves." ~ Anonymous
