Tamar

This sounds SO similar to my son (7, adopted from foster care, ASD, gifted). I made the mistake of allowing the school to do their own re-eval while in the process of the IEEs. Their re-eval was a waste of time, but only strengthened their argument to say "look, we now have TWO assessments contradicting the IEE!" Things got to the point where he was assigned an aide and a BIP under the 504- but now that we are on the IEP they removed a BIP and said "its not needed." The battle when you have a child who doesn't have academic delays but needs social/ emotional and executive functioning supports is not easy.

My 7yo is on an IEP. His private BCBA requested to do a school observation, to help us figure out how to best support him at home, as well as additional accommodations to request at school. The school has stated she is only allowed to do a 20 min observation, and only with me and the principal present as well. I work full time and cannot be there, plus if I'm there it has a significant chance of changing his behaviors in the classroom. We are in CA. Is there any regulations around classroom observations?

Are the school and an IEE assessor allowed to have conversations regarding observations before the meeting to determine additional services/ assessments, without including the parent? We are in the process of an IEE with the Riverside school district for my son. It's not going well- the district has drug the process on for over a year and I finally agreed to use the psychoeducational assessor on their list (who my advocate recommended) after they shot down multiple other psychologists I requested. The assessment is complete and submitted but we don't have our meeting to discuss it until May. I have also requested an IEE for the FBA but the school hasn't replied, and then said they need to contact the IEE psychologist for more info before deciding if they can approve the FBA. I emailed the IEE psychologist who said the school did reach out to him, "They were just asking about my observations when I observed him." We already had a meeting to discuss the IEE for OT and the meeting was awful- the school OT refused to even put OT consultation into the current 504, basically the team gaslight everything- the OT IEE recommended weekly services and a vision assessment. Is that conversation allowed to happen without the parent being included? I never provided permission for it specifically BUT did sign other consents for the IEE itself. The district has not overall been acting in good faith throughout this process, hence my apprehension. My son currently doesn't have an IEP- the IEE we haven't had the meeting for does recommend an IEP for OHI and SLD- the goal is also for him to have a 1:1 aide given his behavioral support needs (he currently has a part time aide under his 504. This school district is bizarre). He has been suspended once last year and once this year (1st grade), and has multiple "incidents" in his permanent record.