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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 46436" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>SRL nailed it.</p><p></p><p>Couple of things. The school cannot give an IEP or 504 without her going through the evaluation process and qualifying as "eligible."</p><p></p><p>They can, if they so choose, use your private evaluations instead of doing their own. If they want to do this, they will require your reports in total. Also, it's not uncommon for them to pick and choose what they want to agree with from private evaluations -- a no, no in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>By law the parent doesn't have to be a part of the 504 team, therefore, the student remains at the mercy of the sd. 504's have their place but they are very difficult to enforce, e.g., OCR (504 enforcer) tends to look primarily for procedural violations when a complaint is filed. If the parent doesn't participate in the meetings, where do you get your evidence, how do you substantiate the basis of a claim, etc.? (He said/she said will get you nowhere.)</p><p></p><p>I strongly recommend that you ask for an evaluation in conjunction with IDEA requirements and via CM. If for some reason she doesn't qualify, then, and only then, fall back on pursuing a 504 plan.</p><p></p><p>Red flags are flying. Whether 504 or IEP, services are at no cost to the parent. Additionally, arranging funding is for the sd to work out with Medicaid (if allowed by Medicaid) -- not the parent. I am not a big fan of the wait-and-see approach either -- particularly when you already have your evaluations with recommendations. (The sd evaluation process takes 60 - 90 days, if a sd discovers they need to do an additional evaluation it can and usually does push the date further into the future, if parents and sd disagree and an IEE is needed it pushes the the time even further into the future. I have been through this twice with difficult child. Both times I asked for evaluations at the beginning of the school year in August and both times the process was completed the last week of May -- just days before school was out for the year.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 46436, member: 23"] SRL nailed it. Couple of things. The school cannot give an IEP or 504 without her going through the evaluation process and qualifying as "eligible." They can, if they so choose, use your private evaluations instead of doing their own. If they want to do this, they will require your reports in total. Also, it's not uncommon for them to pick and choose what they want to agree with from private evaluations -- a no, no in my opinion. By law the parent doesn't have to be a part of the 504 team, therefore, the student remains at the mercy of the sd. 504's have their place but they are very difficult to enforce, e.g., OCR (504 enforcer) tends to look primarily for procedural violations when a complaint is filed. If the parent doesn't participate in the meetings, where do you get your evidence, how do you substantiate the basis of a claim, etc.? (He said/she said will get you nowhere.) I strongly recommend that you ask for an evaluation in conjunction with IDEA requirements and via CM. If for some reason she doesn't qualify, then, and only then, fall back on pursuing a 504 plan. Red flags are flying. Whether 504 or IEP, services are at no cost to the parent. Additionally, arranging funding is for the sd to work out with Medicaid (if allowed by Medicaid) -- not the parent. I am not a big fan of the wait-and-see approach either -- particularly when you already have your evaluations with recommendations. (The sd evaluation process takes 60 - 90 days, if a sd discovers they need to do an additional evaluation it can and usually does push the date further into the future, if parents and sd disagree and an IEE is needed it pushes the the time even further into the future. I have been through this twice with difficult child. Both times I asked for evaluations at the beginning of the school year in August and both times the process was completed the last week of May -- just days before school was out for the year.) [/QUOTE]
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