Test results ahead of IEP meeting....

You have all the rights. Don’t even get into it with the school pyschologist…he sounds like the anti-christ and he’s really a non-player anyway, when you get right down to it.

My question is is this the IEP meeting or the MFE meeting where the results are accepted (or rejected) by the team? Do you think they will not qualify your child for services?

Two can play the game and unforunately for them, you’re holding all the cards. What I would do, but that’s only me, is write a letter, email or call the sp ed director and let him/her know that you’d like to have the test results prior to the IEP/MFE meeting because it takes you a while to digest this kind of information and you wouldn’t want everyone to be sitting there for the considerable amount of time it would take for you to read the report and you would be extremely uncomfortable. If the results are not ready in time for you to get them prior to the meeting, you wish to postpone the meeting until one week after the time that you can receive the report with the subtest scores so that you can discuss them with your advocate.

Parents rights article:
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/parenting/parentsrights.html

Unfortunately they don’t indicate chapter and verse where your right to test results are — you might have to do some homework at wrightslaw.com to find that, but I think it’s there. Basically, parents have the right to see information about their children, period. That psych may be trying to defend those protocols — thinking you’re not allowed to look at the actual tests because then you could leak their contents — but basically any report written up on your kiddo is something you’ve got a right to get a hold of. Be sure to cc over the psych’s head, of course.

Tink,

I went through the same problem. The psychologist didn’t come out and say I could have the test result he just never sent them.

I sent a nice letter to the head of the sped unit, the principal of my school district stating that since everyone else would have the test result for the meeting I wanted them too. I told them I would pick up the test results if they wanted. It was actually the principal that made sure I got them.

Good luck.

I would imagine laws vary so you should check Board of Ed, in my state we are able to request a copy of all test reports and school recommendation prior to IEP Meeting. The request must be made in writing and the school is obligated to provide the information.

According to your rights (check the copy of the Procedural Safeguards you should have been given at the referral staffing, or any meeting that your signature was required on something), it states that you have access to any file that concerns your child (SPED and permanent - but that is in my state, others do it differently). In the sped file, a copy of the test results must be there (it is a document called the Diagnostic Staffing or Educational Staffing, or something similar). Your child’s case manager is responsible for that file, and its contents. As previously suggested, go over the head of that creep! Check with the case manager.