Re: School is refusing psych eval? Is this legal??????

[Guest guest]

I dont know whats legal or not. What state are you in? I've had all three of my

kids do the EI to preschool Evaluation process. In my district, and I'd think in

all of NY, the Psychological is always, always done with whatever area the issue

would be in. So while all mine got speech, they'd always do the Psych along with

it. Kids who came in with OT or PT concerns would get either of those areas

tested along with Psych. I'm pretty sure they told me I was not allowed to

refuse the Psych testing!! They said it was a way to give a baseline of the area

where the concerns really were!

>

> Hello, All!

> I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in ea

> rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

> isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

law

> USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

scores. I

> asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> Please help me out with current laws.

> Thanks,

> Brittany

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

When was he previously evaluated? Is it possible that not enough time has

lapsed between evaluations? Just guessing in the dark. If enough time has

lapsed to not skew the results, I would expect them to do a psych eval

unless you refused, but I am not familiar with the exact laws involved.

Good luck!

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, <spinachbreath@...> wrote:

>

>

> Hello, All!

> I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in

> ea

> rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

>

> isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

> law

> USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

> scores. I

> asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> Please help me out with current laws.

> Thanks,

> Brittany

>

>

[Guest guest]

I believe you can ask for an eval or re-eval at anytime. The school is required

to do this very three years. I also think that the school needs to follow your

requests if you have good reason to believe things have changed before the three

year time period. Then once they start they have 90 days to complete.

Good luck

Alyssa

On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:59 PM, jodi <ivyredgirl@...> wrote:

> When was he previously evaluated? Is it possible that not enough time has

> lapsed between evaluations? Just guessing in the dark. If enough time has

> lapsed to not skew the results, I would expect them to do a psych eval

> unless you refused, but I am not familiar with the exact laws involved.

>

> Good luck!

>

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, <spinachbreath@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > Hello, All!

> > I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> > is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> > They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in

> > ea

> > rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> > in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> > deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

> >

> > isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

> > law

> > USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> > irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

> > scores. I

> > asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> > no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> > Please help me out with current laws.

> > Thanks,

> > Brittany

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Sorry I just read down and saw your child is only three. In this case the

schools tend to do their first set of assessments when starting kindergarten. I

am not sure what age the Liter and other assessment tools use as there age range

to start testing. You might want to ask. .

On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:59 PM, jodi <ivyredgirl@...> wrote:

> When was he previously evaluated? Is it possible that not enough time has

> lapsed between evaluations? Just guessing in the dark. If enough time has

> lapsed to not skew the results, I would expect them to do a psych eval

> unless you refused, but I am not familiar with the exact laws involved.

>

> Good luck!

>

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, <spinachbreath@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > Hello, All!

> > I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> > is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> > They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in

> > ea

> > rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> > in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> > deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

> >

> > isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

> > law

> > USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> > irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

> > scores. I

> > asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> > no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> > Please help me out with current laws.

> > Thanks,

> > Brittany

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I had the same problem a few years ago. (My daughter is now 9).

You DO have the right to ask for a re-eval. If you're not getting the results

you are looking for,get your son's doctors involved. They have a lot of pull

when it comes to these issues. One other site you may want to check out is

AutismSpeaks.com. They might be able to answer other questions you might have.

GOOD LUCK!

Dawn

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From: Alyssa <aw_nagy@...>

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Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 7:27:01 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] School is refusing psych eval? Is this

legal??????

 

I believe you can ask for an eval or re-eval at anytime. The school is required

to do this very three years. I also think that the school needs to follow your

requests if you have good reason to believe things have changed before the three

year time period. Then once they start they have 90 days to complete.

Good luck

Alyssa

On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:59 PM, jodi <ivyredgirl@...> wrote:

> When was he previously evaluated? Is it possible that not enough time has

> lapsed between evaluations? Just guessing in the dark. If enough time has

> lapsed to not skew the results, I would expect them to do a psych eval

> unless you refused, but I am not familiar with the exact laws involved.

>

> Good luck!

>

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, <spinachbreath@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > Hello, All!

> > I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> > is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> > They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in

> > ea

> > rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> > in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> > deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

> >

> > isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

> > law

> > USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> > irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

> > scores. I

> > asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> > no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> > Please help me out with current laws.

> > Thanks,

> > Brittany

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I'm just curious why you want a psych evaluation? That created the most

problems for us. My son has apraxia and he was evaluated by his private speech

pathologist and pediatric neurologist and my husband and I go by their

professional opinions for my son's needs for his IEP. I didn't feel our son

needed a psych evaluation as his issues are not psychological, but they told me

that is who does the testing for our school but we and our son's private

professionals did not agree with the school test results from the school psych

evaluation and had to fight to get our son's IEP to something we all agreed on.

His private professionals were a huge help thank goodness! Ask your son's

private professionals to help and maybe they will too? Kate

>

> Hello, All!

> I have a question that I know you can help me with. My son has apraxia and

> is getting ready to transition to the school system (turns 3 in January).

> They are agreeing to do a speech eval, but that's all. He is currently in ea

> rly intervention and his last eval showed scores of -2 standard deviations

> in social, social communication, cognitive, and adaptive, -1 standard

> deviation in fine motor, and " average " in gross motor. Now, my question is,

> isn't it my right to request the psychological evaluation? I know that the

law

> USED to state that, but has it changed? I feel that it would be

> irresponsible NOT to evaluate him with a psych eval, given his previous

scores. I

> asked them if I had the right to request the psych eval and they said

> no...something doesn't feel right, but I may be wrong.

> Please help me out with current laws.

> Thanks,

> Brittany

>

>

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