Although the neuro-psyc. stated our ds needed an OT eval. it took 8 months to get the school board to come and look. They just gave us a nearly blank piece of paper based entirely on a subjective 40 min.observation. It is their own concocted grid of questions and there are no ages, grade equivalents or any sort of norms. It could have been performed by any adult on a well trained chimpanzee and the report would have read the same results. He can eat finger foods, walk and knows how to use the john!! They will not accept outside evals.(violation of federal law???) I am getting one anyway because I’m certain they will try and deny elligibility. I exercised the right of independent eval. after re-reading the procedural safeguards.
Are there OTs who frequent this board who are familiar with the national standards and recomendations of what constitutes a proper evaluation and the names of appropriate testing tools? The age is 8 1/2. Previously he is diagnosed with a disability of writing and a sensorimotor deficit. Verbal/Performance IQ split is huge. Big problems are: far & near point copy, spelling, spacing, letter quality, directionality & slow speed. Illegibility is about 50% of the time, the overall quality of writing is about on a K-1st level. The school keeps telling me, “It needs to be educationally relevant.” I was under the impression OT for writing is highly relevant.