Re: Our district is trying to use my son's speech eval against him

[Guest guest]

> Hey everyone,

> Are there any speech therapists out there or anyone else who can

give us some strategical advice on how to verbally rebut what they are

saying??? Our son does not get private speech at the moment, so we do

not have a second opinion.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Trina

Dear Trina,

I'm not an SLP, but usually you have the right to request an

independent evaluation paid for by the school district if you disagree

with the results of their eval. You should get a copy of the

regulations in your state, but I know that in NY you can state why you

have a problem with their eval. and request that they pay for an

outside eval. If they want to say " no " to you they have to go to an

impartial (which probably costs more than an eval). You have nothing

to loose and you can look for someone who is willing to work with you

to get optimal scores for your son. You can also request that the

district do a non-verbal IQ test (such as the Leiter) in order to get

an IQ score that isn't influenced by his verbal delays.

[Guest guest]

My son is 7 and will be put in 1st grade with an aid because he hardly has

any speech.He's slowly getting speech(one word and phrases he is learning in

ABA) Of course he will just be there for math,reading,spelling and then go

to a special ed room and also do 2 hours of ABA at school.But his speech

should not keep him from 1st grade without maybe an aid.<br><br><br> Ann

Boyce

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>Subject: Our district is trying to use my son's speech eval

>against him

>Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:08:15 -0500

>

>Hey everyone,

>

>Sorry to cross post, but didn't want to over look any helpful advice.

>

>Many of you have been helping me on this long drawn out matter with my

>school district, and I greatly appreciate it. They are still insisting

>that we have the psych. evals BEFORE they will even write goals and do

>placement for fall, which is in two weeks, for my son. He should just go

>on to first grade, but they are trying to use the evals to say that he

>should be put in a segregated classroom. They are totally disregarding the

>whole LRE thing. We did allow them to do a speech eval, because it had

>been a long time and we do like his speech therapist from the district. OF

>COURSE, the results showed huge gaps and delays. He is about to turn 8,

>but was totally nonverbal until 3. He has made tremendous gains, but is

>not age appropriate. But, that, to us, was to be expected. AND, as usual,

>he did not " perform " up to par on the testing. I was present for all of it

>and it makes me want to wringe his little neck. Anyway, since we are not

>agreeing to the psych. testing readily (this argument is not over with them

>in any way), they are now trying to use the scores on the speech eval to

>say that he will not be able to function in first grade, .......

>

>Are there any speech therapists out there or anyone else who can give us

>some strategical advice on how to verbally rebut what they are saying???

>Our son does not get private speech at the moment, so we do not have a

>second opinion.

>

>Thanks,

>

>Trina

>

>

>