{"id":16739,"date":"2016-07-14T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=16739"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T20:55:28","slug":"can-a-parent-request-an-iee-in-an-area-not-assessed-previously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-parent-request-an-iee-in-an-area-not-assessed-previously\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Parent Request an IEE in an Area Not Assessed Previously?"},"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=\"Can%20a%20Parent%20Request%20an%20IEE%20in%20an%20Area%20Not%20Assessed%20Previously%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My son&#8217;s school district agreed to an IEE but they are trying to limit the area of assessment. There are areas that I disagree with. There are also areas that they failed to assess. Can the district limit the areas or should an IEE be a full assessment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good question.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. DOE Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) was asked this question and responded with a policy guidance letter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><em> Can a parent request an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE) in an area that was not previously assessed by the school district\u2019s evaluation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: &#8220;<\/strong> &#8230;the State must ensure that in evaluating each child with a disability under 34 CFR \u00a7\u00a7300.304 through 300.306, the evaluation is sufficiently comprehensive to assess the child in <strong>all areas<\/strong> related to the suspected disability, and <strong>must identify all of the child\u2019s special needs,<\/strong> whether or not commonly linked to the disability category in which the child has been classified.&#8221; 34 CFR \u00a7300.304(c)(4)and (6)<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;a parent disagrees with a school&#8217;s evaluation because the school did not asses the child in a particular area, the parent has the right to request an IEE to assess the child<strong> in that area<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/memosdcltrs\/acc-14-012562r-baus-iee.pdf\">Independent Educational Evaluations \u2013 Letter to Debbie Baus<\/a><\/span> (OSEP Policy Letter, 02\/23\/15)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/memosdcltrs\/acc-14-012562r-baus-iee.pdf\">http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/memosdcltrs\/acc-14-012562r-baus-iee.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>OSEP Dear Colleague Policy and Guidance Letters<\/strong> are very useful when you need to educate school staff and administrators about their legal responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/2015law\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/2015law\/cover.300dpi.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/2015law\/index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2015<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em> helps you stay up-to-date on policy guidance from OSEP.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 2 includes actions and opinions from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) and the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/2015law\/index.htm\"><em><strong>Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span> also includes legal developments and key decisions from the Courts of Appeals in IDEA cases during 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In Chapter 3, a Table of Decisions includes the date, court, synopsis of legal issues, outcome, and prevailing party in the cases. 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There are areas that I disagree with. There are also areas that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-parent-request-an-iee-in-an-area-not-assessed-previously\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[45,5,557],"tags":[687,1293,1419,1418],"class_list":["post-16739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases","category-idea-2004","category-wrightslaw-products","tag-caselaw","tag-idea-2004","tag-osep-policy-guidance","tag-wrightslaw-legal-developments-and-cases-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739","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=16739"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18366,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions\/18366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}