In our state, (PA), parental consent is required for evaluations. Recently there seems to be a trend towards using the Achievement tests and IQ tests in the pre-referral process, where no parental consent is mandated. If the response to intervention is not adequate, that student is then referred for further testing. However, most of the testing is already done and they are just reviewing existing data. This to me does not sound legally appropriate - just a way of circumventing the parental consent requirement before administering those tests. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
I’d think parental consent would be required for the IQ test, right?
Sometimes schools *do* take one consent and stretch it … but it doesn’t sound like they’re doing testing without consent if they have consent for the first batch, then do that ‘attempted intervention,’ etc.