{"id":12517,"date":"2016-08-11T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T17:18:19","slug":"school-wants-to-replace-iep-with-rti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/school-wants-to-replace-iep-with-rti\/","title":{"rendered":"The School Wants to Replace My Son&#8217;s IEP with RTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"The%20School%20Wants%20to%20Replace%20My%20Son%27s%20IEP%20with%20RTI\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/boy.sad.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"178\" \/>My 6 year old son has had an IEP since last year. Now the school wants to meet for an RTI. Is this correct\u00a0 &#8211; or should we be meeting to update the IEP?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NOT SO FAST!<\/p>\n<p>The school cannot unilaterally discontinue your son\u2019s special ed services unless you go along.<\/p>\n<p>RTI is not special education, so it is not equivalent to nor a substitute for special education.<\/p>\n<p>You need to educate yourself about legal requirements for eligibility \u2013 how these decisions are made \u2013 before you can be an effective advocate for your son.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comprehensive Evaluation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the school determined that your child WAS eligible for special ed services, they were required to do a comprehensive evaluation and assess all areas of suspected disability.<\/p>\n<p>Before the school can determine that your son is NOT eligible for special ed services, they are required to do a comprehensive evaluation and assess all areas of suspected disability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has the school completed this comprehensive evaluation?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a copy?<\/li>\n<li>Do you agree with the findings?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you don\u2019t agree, you may need to get an independent educational evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Please read this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/heath\/elig.eval.read.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Terminating Eligibility<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You should also read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/is-rti-equivalent-to-special-education\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Is RTI Equivalent to Special Education?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/elig.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Eligibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/rti.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Response to Intervention (RTI)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TdM3nC8Sdh8\">Video: Response to Intervention (RTI) <\/a><\/span>for a child with a disability and whether RTI may be used to delay an evaluation of a child with special needs in order to determine if the child is eligible for an Individualized Education Program (IEP).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/rti.parent.guide.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Parent Guide to RTI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 6 year old son has had an IEP since last year. Now the school wants to meet for an RTI. Is this correct\u00a0 &#8211; or should we be meeting <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/school-wants-to-replace-iep-with-rti\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,352],"tags":[1301,1299,62],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eligibility","category-response-to-intervention","tag-eligibility","tag-ieps","tag-rti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16215,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}