I got a rare Saturday email from Miss R's Case Manager. An IEP re-evaluation meeting to discuss a Behavior Intervention Plan is scheduled for later this month. My guess is that she hit her 10days and bc of the existng IEP and my known request for an IEE that they want to exhaust all intervention plans before agreeing to the IEE.
You’re in the SF Bay Area? We are in the Bay Area, and at my son’s most recent IEP meeting, the team was saying that they feel like they did a thorough evaluation and the supports they expect to work are not working. They recommended we do an evaluation for him through this place: www.dcn-cde.ca.gov/
Apparently my district has worked with them before and they do free evaluations for complex cases. My district has had good success with them in the past. I can’t speak to their services yet, since we are just discussing right now, but maybe you can suggest it?
Yes I’m in the East Bay and I will def be mentioning them .. thank you!
Since they are suggesting a BIP- make sure you ask for a FBA and then ask for an eval for OHI. this will definitely help with the manifestation meetings if you need it. They will need to decide on a primary and secondary eligibility and will probably pick SLD as first but it can still help to qualify under OHI if it is impacting her academics this much, and honestly i might argue that it is primary at this point but without goals they might want it as secondary. Also- if she does become eligible under OHI- think of what goals you would want because in order to be eligible you need SDI in the area.