Beth Liesenfeld

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 318: What Parents Need to Know about the IEP Process, with Therapist Beth Liesenfeld · 14 Feb 2023 podcast

So the basis to the IEP being effective or not is to make sure that you have a really comprehensive evaluation at the start of this process.

And if you already have an IEP every three years as your triennial review that's set out by federal law, you have to have another evaluation every three years.

Sometimes it's more frequently, but depending on the situation and what's happening.

But

Yeah.

What happens is through that process, you can fix some of the things that might be missing.

And so I have a whole I have a whole series on my podcast about eligibility.

Because when parents have their own list of challenges that their child is having in the school setting, and if you have that before you even look at anything that the school gives you, you have that from your own brain.

Then when you go through the evaluation process, you can make sure that in that evaluation report, all of your concerns or the challenges you feel like they're having are reflected in that report.

If they're not reflected in that report, they're probably not going to be a goal.

They're probably not going to be accommodated.

They're probably not going to get services for it.

So as you prep, right, we're talking about how stressful the IEP meeting is.

This is something that you can do right now, even if you don't have an IEP or an evaluation coming up.

You can just have that list of, man, emotional regulation is really hard for them.

They probably need support for that.

Okay, we also need math addressed, right?

Those big kind of areas that you're concerned about.

Make sure that you have a running list of those.

Once the evaluation report is done and eligibility is determined or not,

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