IEP Flow Chart

Child Find

Child Find is one way that a student can be identified for needing services. The typical age of a child recognized by Child Find is 0-3. People who can refer a child to Child Find include pediatricians, day care providers, and social workers.

Child Find

Referral

A referral is the first step taking in a public school setting to get the IEP evaluation process started for a child is may be suspected as having a learning disability. The referral an come from a parent or a teacher.

Referral

Procedural Safe Guards

Procedural Safe Guards

A student can only be evaluated after the student's parents have granted permission. It is the district's responsibility to send the assessment plan and a copy of the procedural safeguards with 15 days of the referral. In turn, parents have 15 days to approve and consent to the evaluation.

Assessments for Evaluations

Assessments will vary per evaluation as the student will only be evaluated in areas that the suspected disability effects. or example, a student with a dyslexia may not need to complete a behavioral assessment. IDEA lists various tools, tests, and strategues that must be used when conducting an special education evaluation.

Assessments for Evaluations

Eligibility Determination

Eligibility Determination

Eligibility can be determine after all assessments have been completed. If the child is determined as eligibility the Child Study Team will begin the IEP process by scheduling a meeting. In order to be eligible for services, a child must have one of the disabilities defined by IDEA and the impact of the disability must create a need for services.

IEP Meeting

The meeting will be planned in a private location and typically lasts about 1 hour. The meeting will start with introductions. The parent will alos sign a copy of the procedural safeguards. The pyschologist will share all assessment results, teacher reports, and cureent levels of performance. Next, the team will discuss the students eligibilty. The whole team must agree on this decision. If the student is determined as eligible, the team will share goals, objectives, modifications, and accommodations. The meeting wiull end with the parent signing additional forms to finalize everything spoken about at the meeting.

IEP Meeting

Document Components

• Child's present level of functioning
• Strength's weaknesses, abilities, and educational needs
• Area (s) of eligibility
• Annual goals and objectives

• Common Core standards
• DIS services
• Program Placement
• Accommodations and level of participation in assessments
• Transition Plan

IEP Components

IEP Development

The entire IEP process can legally take up to 60 days to complete. The IEP should be develped as a team, which would include the parent. Finalization of the devlopement of the IEP should take place at the IEP meeting.

IEP Development

Progress Monitoring

All schools use a silently unqiue system to track and collect data on IEP goals. However, typically benchmark and progress monitoring reports are completed in December, March, and June. Typically, for academic goals, the special education would track and collect data to ensure the student is making adquate progress on their goals.

Progress Reports

References

Special education evaluation. Understanding Special Education: A Parent Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://www.understandingspecialeducation.com/special-education-evaluation.html

YouTube. (2015). YouTube. Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs0uoVkRTU&t=218s.

References