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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 426735" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>Do you have private health insurance? Have you tried getting a neuropsychologist evaluation through it?</p><p></p><p>If not, I think it might be a better idea to go that route assuming you don't have a huge share of cost or copay.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, I doubt the school district will agree to an IEE until after all those assessments are done and the team has met to review them. Once they have those results they may find that he does qualify in which case you are not going to get an IEE. And I doubt they will get all those assessments done before the end of this school year unless he's at a year-round school. So you will end up meeting again when school starts. You can request that they meet during the summer but I doubt you will get them to agree mainly because the regular ed teachers are not working. You might get a meeting the week before school starts but they could even still be working on the assessments then.</p><p></p><p>This is a perfect example of why a parent has to be educated and proactive with school districts.</p><p></p><p>A knowledgeable Special Education person "should" have listed most of those areas for assessment when a child was being considered for an autism classification. Autism has global effects and is associated with a fairly consistent pattern of disabilities. The lack of a speech assessment is particularly glaring since communication is one of the most significant areas of disability for autistic individuals.</p><p></p><p>But they didn't.</p><p></p><p>If you haven't signed the assessment plan yet I would write on it somewhere - other or next to the speech/language section that you want the assessment to include pragmatic language, reciprocal communication/conversation and abstract language.</p><p></p><p>If you signed it at the IEP meeting, make a copy of the one you signed and and write on it in big letters Amended Assessment Plan and the date. Then write this info in using blue ink so it's clear that it's not part of the original document and sign it. Copy it for your records and send the original marked up copy to Special Education with a cover note saying you wanted it to be very clear that these areas needed to be assessed. You could also e-mail or fax it and follow up with a mailed copy preferably with proof of delivery.</p><p></p><p>PJ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 426735, member: 11920"] Do you have private health insurance? Have you tried getting a neuropsychologist evaluation through it? If not, I think it might be a better idea to go that route assuming you don't have a huge share of cost or copay. Otherwise, I doubt the school district will agree to an IEE until after all those assessments are done and the team has met to review them. Once they have those results they may find that he does qualify in which case you are not going to get an IEE. And I doubt they will get all those assessments done before the end of this school year unless he's at a year-round school. So you will end up meeting again when school starts. You can request that they meet during the summer but I doubt you will get them to agree mainly because the regular ed teachers are not working. You might get a meeting the week before school starts but they could even still be working on the assessments then. This is a perfect example of why a parent has to be educated and proactive with school districts. A knowledgeable Special Education person "should" have listed most of those areas for assessment when a child was being considered for an autism classification. Autism has global effects and is associated with a fairly consistent pattern of disabilities. The lack of a speech assessment is particularly glaring since communication is one of the most significant areas of disability for autistic individuals. But they didn't. If you haven't signed the assessment plan yet I would write on it somewhere - other or next to the speech/language section that you want the assessment to include pragmatic language, reciprocal communication/conversation and abstract language. If you signed it at the IEP meeting, make a copy of the one you signed and and write on it in big letters Amended Assessment Plan and the date. Then write this info in using blue ink so it's clear that it's not part of the original document and sign it. Copy it for your records and send the original marked up copy to Special Education with a cover note saying you wanted it to be very clear that these areas needed to be assessed. You could also e-mail or fax it and follow up with a mailed copy preferably with proof of delivery. PJ [/QUOTE]
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