Reply to Question about process for special education services

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Question about process for special education services"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Charter or public makes no difference. There are clear guidelines governing special ed services and evaluations -- when you met with the school they should have given you a document outlining "Procedural Safeguards" which outlines some of them. You should always make requests for evaluations and the like in writing and all meetings should have notes taken so that everyone is clear on the timelines (e.g. if the plan was to have an SLP evaluate your child the notes should reflect the date by which a written evaluation would be complete and a meeting to discuss findings and any needed remediation would be held. If that didn't happen there is no reason why you shouldn't send a letter asking for the status.

Generally speaking 60-90 days is not an unusual amount of time to get initial evaluations done -- and only school days count. Depending on your circumstances you can also get evaluations done yourself (at your cost) and present them to teh school. Can be faster -- but schools do not always need to adhere those recommendations (ours always did).

Suggest spending time on this website http://www.wrightslaw.com which has great information, templates and explains the jargon really well.

Good luck![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics