Calling special educators, I have a question. EXACTLY when MUST we secure written consent to conduct assessments of our students? Must we secure written consent to assess academics and progress prior to every annual review? We do so at triennials.
Re: Consent for Assessment
I was under the impression that whenever you do new testing, like PT, OT, Speech, AT by inside or out of district evaluators that you needed parental approval. I do out of districts evals and the towns won’t give me the name or info about the students until they have consent.
Re: Consent for Assessment
I think it depends on the state you are in. Virginia has recently adopted new forms that require you to state exactly how you will assess the child for each goal. It you want to use the WJ III at the end of the year, it has to be written. You cannot use a standardized test if you did not specifically state that you would be using one and which one you were using.
Not the way I understand it- unless for some reason you are having someone come in to assess- and I cannot imagine, short of litigation- why that eould be necessary. The parent consent for the 3 year only applies to new information that must be gathered also. The law provides that the team can decide eligibility based on the existing data- say you have a child with autism or a learning impairment or CP- you don’t necessarily need to test for that again. In that case, the need fo parental consent is eliminated. For more labile eligibility- SLD etc- there is usually some sort of testing needed- but for older children who have been assessed to a fair thee well already- it may not be necessary to repeat it all. The team decides.
Robin