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More on Evaluations
More on Evaluations. IDEA requires school staff to gather relevant information as it pertains to the child's functional, developmental and academic performance. This should include information shared and/or provided by the parent. If you have an outside evaluation that you feel provides your team with critical information about your child, you have the right to share that with your team and they have an obligation to review and consider the information in that report. It is important that more than one evaluation is conducted on your child and that multiple professionals are involved in determining your child's needs. The evaluations must use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant information. It's important to examine all areas of a child's functioning to determine not only if the child is a child with a disability, but also determine the child's educational needs. This full and individual evaluation includes evaluating the child's health, vision and hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communication needs, and motor abilities.