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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School admin here.  Very weird that the teacher A. shared with you her "diagnosis" and B. showed you her form.

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Wierd only because school policy seems to be against it.  But I wish someone on the school staff had told me what they suspected in Kindergarten or 1st grade.  I only found out what they thought later, but it would have saved us two years of struggling against baffling problems.

And I don't mean that teachers are in a position to diagnose anything.  But they could talk about suspicions that parents may want to get checked out, or make a referral to the school psychologist.  I think schools think this is illegal, or will get them sued.  But IDEA says "either a parent of a child or a public agency may initiate a request for an initial evaluation to determine if the child is a child with a disability."  But schools never seem to take the initiative.  They wait for parents to ask, even if it's clear that the parents don't know what to do.  As we didn't.[/quote]

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