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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if you are in public on an IEP, the fact that you weren’t given an assessment report which provided an IQ and compared with achievement scores tells me that you may not have gotten a full assessment in all areas of possible disability.  IDEA requires, “The child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, if appropriate, health, vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities;” and TBH, assessing achievement and contextualizing with IQ is necessary for good assessment.

This is another trick MCPS played on us early in our IEP process - trying to pass off simplistic, subjective non-standardized, non-normed “assessments” (which didn’t include IQ) in a very narrow area as compliant with the IDEA-required evaluation.  It was not, and when I complained about it, MCPS busted their butt to do the required full assessment and hold a new meeting to redo the determination. [/quote]

Op here. My child was qualified for IEP since she was 2 year old, and we did many private evaluation (psychological, speech, hearing, OT, speech, ados testing). She has official diagnosis of autism, adhd hyperactive, mild low muscle tone, delay in fine motor skills, and some speech impairment.

No, MCPS IEP never gives her IQ test, but I know that she is on the higher side. MAP -M shows she is 4th/5th grade level, and there is no actual reading test score. They say she is on par on reading level, but I know that her reading level should be a lot more higher. She can read book on her own since age 3, and I have seen her reading higher level books at home. I think her reading level assessment is impaired by her adhd and also being careless.

I am debating if I should get her neuropsychoical testing in private which includes IQ testing since she is 7 now. Are you saying that MCPS should test her and provide the testing for free? [/quote]

Before I answer this, can you elaborate a bit on her IEP - what “special instruction” does she receive? If she is testing above grade level in reading and math, in what areas do IEP goals address?[/quote]

Op here. She is doing better this school year, and her IEP goals are social skill impairment and inflexibility. She sometimes is rigid and emotional at class, and she is not good at teamwork. And, they pull her out for social skill group & speech (social speech), and other services are all push- in.[/quote]

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