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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 71658" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>An Ed.S. degree is pretty typical academic preparation for a school psychologist. If you do not allow the school to evaluate your difficult child, then they will not be able to determine what services are needed. You have a right to continue to believe that your outside evaluations are correct and the school district has an obligation and duty to consider your outside evaluations. A good school psychologist will note what medications a child is receiving at the time of testing or observation. If this is omitted, you can call it to the school psychologists attention, who in my opinion should be embarrassed.</p><p></p><p>To qualify for an IEP, a student must have a negative educational or emotional/behavioral impact. The way the law is written, it is the job of the school psychologist to collect and coordinate large parts of the information that demonstrate negative impact or lack thereof. I think your most realistic fear is that the school district might try to use the evaluation to demonstrate no negative impact. However, this is really a Catch 22, because you need the evaluation to demonstrate negative impact and what services are needed. Like everything else in special education, the law expects parents to consent, but the outcome for parents who monitor what is going on is consistently better than for parents who assume "the school district knows what it's doing and has my child's best interest at heart." if I were you I would let the school district to evaluate but that is just my .02.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 71658, member: 284"] An Ed.S. degree is pretty typical academic preparation for a school psychologist. If you do not allow the school to evaluate your difficult child, then they will not be able to determine what services are needed. You have a right to continue to believe that your outside evaluations are correct and the school district has an obligation and duty to consider your outside evaluations. A good school psychologist will note what medications a child is receiving at the time of testing or observation. If this is omitted, you can call it to the school psychologists attention, who in my opinion should be embarrassed. To qualify for an IEP, a student must have a negative educational or emotional/behavioral impact. The way the law is written, it is the job of the school psychologist to collect and coordinate large parts of the information that demonstrate negative impact or lack thereof. I think your most realistic fear is that the school district might try to use the evaluation to demonstrate no negative impact. However, this is really a Catch 22, because you need the evaluation to demonstrate negative impact and what services are needed. Like everything else in special education, the law expects parents to consent, but the outcome for parents who monitor what is going on is consistently better than for parents who assume "the school district knows what it's doing and has my child's best interest at heart." if I were you I would let the school district to evaluate but that is just my .02. Martie [/QUOTE]
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