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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need new eligibility, not just an IEP, although the two are related.[/quote]

Op here. Yes correct. The new eligibility would come from the new diagnoses, wouldn’t it? The last eval was done 2.5 years ago when he was barely 3…..

We have an IEP for speech from his language delay but other issues have come up in the last year.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Qualification is never just about diagnosis. Having a disability is one of the three prongs. There also has to be an adverse impact on education and a need for specialized services to address that adverse impact. You’ve already got diagnosis so new diagnoses really don’t matter that much. What matters is to define the adverse impact.

Some disabilities don’t result in an adverse impact for a kid. And some adverse impacts need only accommodations. It’s really prongs two and three to spend your time because once you have any diagnosis all adverse impacts, not just those related to the qualifying diagnosis, are addressed. [/quote]

Op here. There is zero question that his disability creates adverse impacts and that he needs specialized services. Even the teachers have agreed (well, they say that to me when we talk but always back track when I try to get them to put it in writing or say it in the IEP meetings, which is a whole other issue). I just don’t know how I as the parent am supposed to be able to produce evidence of this when I’m not in the classroom. The evaluations are helpful in this regard and they do talk about him not being able to access education, but it’s not the same as data.

I get the evals are not outcome determinative but what else can I produce as a parent?[/quote]

IME you focus on prongs two and three. You’ve spent a lot of time talking about the diagnosis and you desire for speech and OT. What you need to do is define how he isn’t accessing the curriculum. Concretely and thoroughly. And then identify the services you want and how they will help. It is a lot of work. You’re going to have to google to research what sorts of classroom interventions are possible and be able to describe why they are necessary and what needs they will address.

You seem to think the diagnosis and testing is the holy grail but even after the school tests you still have prong two and three. And even without their testing you’ve already met the disability prong. [/quote]

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