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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would give the psychologist the benefit of the doubt unlike the pp. Your child clearly has educational impact and needs specially designed instruction to access the curriculum based on what you are stating. The larger question is does your child have a diagnosed disability?  If he/ she does not, that is the reason I would not agree to test.[/quote]

I don't know how old OP's child is, but since she says it he has not been tested in 4 years, and assuming OP started at Kindergarten, OP's child would be about 9.  That is sort of late to still have a "developmental delay" coding -- VA only allows DD thru age 8.  So, if OP's DC is exiting a DD category, it is true that there will need to be a diagnosed disability in one of the other 10 IDEA categories in order to continue with an IEP.  The thing is without further testing, there is no way of getting another disability category.  This is why it is imperative to have the re-evaluation.  OP, your choices are 1) let the school do all the testing and rely solely on the school's testing or 2) let the school do the testing and then move for an IEE for which the school system usually has to pay or 3) pay for the testing entirely yourself and just present the data to the school system.  Don't forget that your insurance company might pay for some testing, especially if you are trying to determine if there is a "medical" condition like ADHD or if you are trying to assess speech and language or if you are trying to assess other conditions like anxiety or depression.  Remember you don't have to know that your DC has any of these conditions for the health insurance company to pay for testing, you just have to want to rule it out.

You can't "know" in advance if there is an IDEA-qualifying disability if you don't do the evaluation, unless a pediatrician or other doctor has diagnosed something like ADHD or a medical condition.  There really is no reason that kids would normally get the kind of testing that is required to find out about IDEA-eleigibilty.  You need to have IQ testing done and achievement testing, as well as probably speech/language testing and attention testing and executive function testing to really understand if a child qualifies for one of the 10 IDEA disability categories.  You need to test to find out if there is a disability. [/quote]

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