Pscyho-educational reports

Legally what counts is her written report. Her written report is what would be taken into consideration should you go to due process. If she is the deciding factor on your child receiving services then I would seek an outside independant evaluation so that you have additional proof that your child is in need of special education services.

Laurie wrote:

> I have a question concerning psycho-educational reports. Can
> a school psychologist write a report stating one thing then
> come to the IEP meeting and state something totally different??
> In my case the psychologist indicated, through her report, that
> one of my students had an IQ in the low average range, however
> at the meeting she told the committee that the child had an IQ
> in a much higher range. I questioned her about the report and
> that what she was saying is much different than her
> recommendation in the report and she stated that she changed
> her mind. I asked her if she is going to change the report and
> she said no. Can she legally do this???
>
> Laurie

COuld be she’s feeling too busy to make an amendment to her report — in which case you make it so it’s less work to do that than to keep dealing with you :) I would make a request to the principal and sped folks — in writing, of course — stating that in the last IEP meeting the psych had amended her assessment of your child’s IQ and stated that she felt the test score was lower than her actual potential. State that you would like to either have an independent evaluation to determine whether this is, inf act, true, or to have her make an official, written amendment.
It’s a little too easy for schools to interpret numbers however they want so they can do as little as they want — so further down the road, when they’re lowering expectations like mad, they’ll say, “how could you expect us to help her? She just doesn’t have the IQ… you’re in denial and pushing her too hard.” And they may even sincerely believe it based on what they see — kids burn out :-(