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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - Update!

Evaluation to commence.  This was a week after filing an appeal with due process, which was resolved with mediation. [/quote]

Yay you!  Can you provide any more details about your "appeal".  Did you just fill out the form, or did you include a longer narrative of the problem?

Glad to hear your DH is attending.  It is unlikely that the team will fail to move to evaluation this time. If they do agree to evaluate, you will be asked to sign "consent" to evaluate forms.  Often school districts will just use broad checkboxes asking you to consent to evaluation in broad areas.  Sometimes there can be problems when the school team does a cursory evaluation and tries to present it as definitive.  You have leverage before you sign consent -- say that you cannot give informed consent unless you know exactly what tests the school system is proposing.  If you ask, they must tell you each test that they are planning to give.  As you are asking, make it clear that you intend to consent to evaluation, but that you just want to know exactly what it is you are consenting to -- that is the principal of informed consent.

Take what they tell you about the tests and google online to see if you think these tests cover the areas in which your DC is having problems.  Try and also make sure the testing is standardized and norm-referenced to the degree possible.  Some "informal" assessment or observational assessment is OK, but the evaluation/assessment should not be solely based on informal, non-norm referenced assessments.  For example, my child has a language disorder with specific problems in pragmatic speech (although these are not due to autism -- he has a different diagnosis).  The speech assessor failed to test pragmatic speech, and when forced to do so used only informal observation, which justified her "he's fine" diagnosis.  This caused much delay.  [/quote]

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