Exceptional Student Education - Understanding the Eligibility Process
Table of Contents
- Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities Inc.
- Introduction
- ESE Process
- Step 1: Your Child is Identified as Needing Services
- General Education Interventions
- Step 2: Your Child is Evaluated
- The Initial Evaluation
- Initial Evaluations and Consent
- Initial Evaluations and IDEA 2004
- Florida Rule 6A-6.0331
- Can the School Refuse to Evaluate Your Child?
- What do Evaluations Tell You?
- School Evaluations Versus Medical Evaluations
- More on Evaluations
- Children in Private Schools
- Funds for Private School Students
- After the Evaluations are Completed…
- Programs versus Related Services
- Step 3: Eligibility is Determined
- Eligibility Meeting and Determination
- Step 4: Your Child is Found Eligible For Services
- If your child is NOT Eligible for services?
- Step 5: An IEP meeting is scheduled
- Step 6: IEP is drafted by the team and must include
- Step 6 Part 2
- Step 6 Part 3
- Step 7: Your Child Will Begin to Receive ESE Services
- Step 8: Your Child's Progress is Measured Over Time
- Step 9: Your Child's IEP is Reviewed
- Step 10: Your Child is Re-Evaluated
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Can the School Refuse to Evaluate Your Child?
- In keeping with IDEA's provisions, a school district may refuse to evaluate a child. However, they must provide written notice to the parents, which explains why the public agency refuses to conduct an initial evaluation and the information that was used as the basis to make that decision.
- A parent may challenge such a refusal by requesting a due process hearing.