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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sure some of you switched on moms can give me the answer to my IEP question.  I'm currently swimming in a sea of books trying to figure out the process and I still can't tell -- can you refuse IEP testing by the school, get a child privately tested and provide the private testing during the IEP process, thereby preventing the school from doing any testing?   I can see that I have a right to refuse IEP testing, but I can't understand if I refuse IEP testing if that also means I am declining to enter the IEP process.  I know that the IEP process requires appropriate evaluation, but I can't tell if privately provided testing will suffice?  (My question assumes that we provide the right kind of testing from a qualified tester.)

I know I sound paranoid, but I have already been through one IEP meeting where I was told many things about the IEP process which I later found out were flat-out wrong.  I am now concerned, for example, that if I have my DC tested by the school system that the testing will be poorly done and will just undermine my case.

I'm doubly concerned now that I have made a records request of the school and can see how little information and documentation exists about DC's academic progress.  What little "testing" and evaluation has been done is largely recorded as numbers and there is no very little substantive record to examine or challenge.

Help!  I'm sure the answer is obvious, and I am way over-thinking.....

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