{"id":30,"date":"2008-05-13T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:46:18","slug":"independent-evaluations-should-parents-provide-a-copy-for-the-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/independent-evaluations-should-parents-provide-a-copy-for-the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Evaluations: Should parents provide a copy for the school?"},"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=\"Independent%20Evaluations%3A%20Should%20parents%20provide%20a%20copy%20for%20the%20school%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I have just a short time to post today &#8211; I have a flight to MO this afternoon for the conference being held in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/speak\/archive\/08.05.mo.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jefferson City area <\/span><\/a>on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I did want to respond to a question from a public school speech language therapist who attended one of our conferences earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>This SLP finds herself in the position of being torn between the fear of retaliation from her employer and the desire to advocate for her student&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p>The school still uses the discrepancy model and the intervention team has refused to evaluate a five year old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/consult.eval2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>While hoping to keep her job, this school therapist took a &#8220;leap of faith&#8221; as she called it. She advised the mother to get an independent evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The mom requested a meeting to discuss the results of the evaluation &#8211; and the school psychologist asked for the parent to provide a copy of the report, before they will even agree to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Should the parent provide the evaluation report to the school?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My answer is <strong>yes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend that when parents obtain private evaluations, they share them with the school district <strong>prior <\/strong>to a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>If the school administration wants to fight and does not have the report in advance, then fight time will simply be delayed, to the detriment of the child.<\/p>\n<p>If the school administration wants to provide services, then there will not be a delay.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, if a Judge was to review the history later, the Judge would wonder why a parent would withhold this report in advance of a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I tell parents to get a copy of new school evaluations in advance of meeting. The same standard should apply here. The parent should provide a copy of the independent evaluation to the team in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this therapist for being there and looking out for the parent and child&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Pete<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow-up:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/school-evaluations-should-schools-provide-parents-with-a-copy-before-an-iep-meeting\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">School Evaluations: Should schools provide parents with a copy before an IEP meeting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just a short time to post today &#8211; I have a flight to MO this afternoon for the conference being held in the Jefferson City area on Thursday. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/independent-evaluations-should-parents-provide-a-copy-for-the-school\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[55,3,35,57,5,63,7],"tags":[36,1301,1310,62],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations-modifications","category-advocacy","category-eligibility","category-fape","category-idea-2004","category-independent-evaluations","category-legal-news","tag-due-process","tag-eligibility","tag-independent-evaluations","tag-rti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}