{"id":22804,"date":"2018-05-31T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=22804"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:18:34","slug":"evaluations-v-iep-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/evaluations-v-iep-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluations v. IEP Meetings"},"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=\"Evaluations%20v.%20IEP%20Meetings\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/couple.talk_.man_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schools are mixing up terminology these days (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-terminology-game-from-the-school-kids-lawyer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">The Terminology Game<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I believe they are doing this on purpose to confuse parents and prevent them from exerting their legal rights.<\/p>\n<p>One way they are doing this is to combine the terms <em>evaluation<\/em> and <em>IEP meeting<\/em> into &#8216;evaluation meeting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, there is no such thing in special education law as an &#8216;evaluation meeting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The terms <em>evaluation<\/em> and <em>IEP meeting<\/em> are two distinct things under the law.\u00a0 They each have their own definition and their own subsection in the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluations<\/strong> are defined in 20 U.S.C. 1414(a), (b), and (c).\u00a0 Evaluations involve use of valid testing methodology and tools to determine if a child has a disability and any education deficiencies that need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IEP meetings<\/strong> fall under 20 U.S.C. 1414(d).\u00a0 IEP meetings are the assembly of the IEP team to discuss what the evaluations say and determine the educational program for a child with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Because teacher input or discussion alone is <strong>not<\/strong> an evaluation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An IEP meeting can be held to determine if a child should be <em>reevaluated<\/em>, but it should not be called an &#8216;evaluation meeting.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0School Kids Lawyer, Robert C. Thurston, Esq., says, \u201cWe know you don\u2019t have a ton of spare time, so we designed our newsletter to have <em>2 (brief) Things<\/em> about special education law. Feel free to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate them allowing us to share 2 <em>Things<\/em> with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/2018\/03\/01\/evaluations-vs-iep-meetings-a-very-important-distinction\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/inhouse\/skl.blog.2things.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Originally published in the March 2018 issue of the <em>Special Ed Law Newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out the SKL Blog to find the article &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/2018\/03\/01\/evaluations-vs-iep-meetings-a-very-important-distinction\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Evaluations vs. IEP Meetings \u2013 A Very Important Distinction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Schools are mixing up terminology these days (see The Terminology Game). I believe they are doing this on purpose to confuse parents and prevent them from exerting their legal rights. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/evaluations-v-iep-meetings\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22809,"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":[5,18],"tags":[1494,132,1496,1495],"class_list":["post-22804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idea-2004","category-ieps","tag-evaluatons","tag-iep-meetings","tag-robert-c-thurston","tag-the-school-kids-lawyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804","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=22804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22812,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions\/22812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}