www.wrightslaw.com has a wealth of information for parents navigating through
the special education/public school process.

My suggestion would be to write a letter requesting an IEE if you feel the
evaluator was not qualified or if you believe the evaluation was not adaquate.

you want the school to pay for an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE), you
will need to make your request BEFORE any independent testing is done. Some
reasons you may want to request an independent evaluation include:

·You believe the original evaluation was incorrect.
·The original evaluation was not done in your child's native language.
·You believe that the original evaluation was incomplete and additional tests
are needed.
·The evaluation was not done with the needed accommodations (for example, in
Braille or administered by someone who knows sign language).
The school system may agree to your request and pay for the IEE.

AS FAR AS RESTRAINTS ...Write a NO RESTRAINT LETTER

My daugther has autism and is nonverbal. I have had to battle and advocate for
her services for years. If you school system says they cant do it, then file a
formal state complaint. I have had to go that route a couple of times and GA DOE
has sided with us with the decision that our county was out of compliance with
federal laws under IDEA & her IEP.

Feel free to email me & I can help walk you through the process and provide
links to sample letters that you can personalize to advocate for your son.

Gina


--- In opengaautism@yahoogroups.com, "kbarta5" <kbarta5@...> wrote:
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> My son is 8 years old and has autism. He is enrolled in the public school
system in Camden County. He will scream "no" or "no work" and he has also ran
out of the classroom on a few occasions. The school pscyhologist wrote a draft
behavior intervention plan and sent it home for me to review. She said that he
does these things to avoid completing work and wrote to use a visual schedule,
timer, offer choices (all things the teacher is supposed to be doing now). The
reinforcers were teacher 1:1, conferencing and ignoring the behavior with
consequences of time-out and physical restraint. Why would she write to use
physical restraint? What are my rights as a parent in this situation? I do not
agree with this plan. Camden County does not have a behavior analyst, but is
the school psychologist qualified to write a behavior plan for my son? Would I
be able to ask for another evaluation by someone privately? Who would you
suggest? Please give me your opinions. Thank you in advance!
>