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

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More often than not, that evaluation report summary is copied and pasted into the present levels of the IEP.

So you can see how important it is because if there's something missing from the evaluation, then it's not going to get into the present levels of the IEP.

And that's really what I call the start and the top of the IEP data funnel.

Because if it's not in the top, meaning the present levels, it's probably not gonna trickle down to become a goal or an accommodation later.

So if you can kind of stay one step ahead of this process and say, hey, you guys are missing this big emotional regulation piece, or even if your child is being qualified under a specific learning disability.

But you also suspect that they have anxiety and they're having some behaviors around anxiety.

That anxiety needs to be in there, right?

Even if they're like, oh, it doesn't relate to this specific learning disability, it doesn't matter.

They're supposed to be comprehensive.

And so

In that way, the

Then you can look at the IEP and say, okay, is every need or challenge in that present levels being supported somewhere in the IEP down the line?

This is a really big concern of the parents.

We're seeing a lot of behaviors.

How is that supported when you go down the IEP?

And so when you get to that the end of the AEP, you should say, okay, like every challenge has been addressed in some way.

Not every challenge is going to be a goal.

Not every challenge may be accommodated, but at least it's addressed somewhere and you feel like it's a good wraparound support for your kid.

Also, anybody who picks up that IEP should be able to know who your kid is.

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