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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We requested an IEP (second time) for my child, and the school has scheduled a "screening" meeting to determine if they should perform assessments.  Can anyone tell me what I should expect and how I should prepare for this meeting?

Also, I'm curious if other people think this "screening" step is a ridiculous evasion of the law.  They've basically added a month+ into the timeline by inserting a "screening" meeting rather than simply giving me the forms to approve assessment.  It all seems ridiculous to me because he had a very expensive outside assessment done already, and I hear plenty of complaints from the teachers about how he's not participating in the curriculum, so now we're going to spend months talking about whether he needs assessments, and then presumably scheduling and doing assessments -- I don't see how they're going to be able to get anything in place before the end of the school year!  The first time I asked for an IEP, they said we needed to wait to see if there was educational impact, so I waited, and there's plenty of educational impact demonstrated now, but they are making me start over at square one.  [/quote]

The timeline doesn't change.  If you requested the testing in writing, then the clock started clicking on the day you handed it over and received you signed receipt.  They will have fewer days to complete the evaluation.

A screening meeting is a standard part of the assessment process.  It can be waived, but usually only when the disability is obvious, and pretty clearly delineated.  For example, a student who stutters might go straight to a speech language evaluation.  In most other circumstances, even if there's no disagreement about the evaluation, the team needs to meet to determine what diagnoses to consider, and which tests to give.[/quote]

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