SEAC Presents: Evaluations, Reevaluations, IEEs

Erin D. Gilsbach, Esq., provides an in-depth look at the legal requirements for initial evaluations and reevaluations.  Atty. Gilsbach is a nationally-recognized speaker on school law issues and a practicing school law attorney.  In this live, in-person session, she explores a wide range of topics on the issue, including legally-mandated timelines, types of assessments and information to be included in a legally-defensible evaluation or reevaluation, the role of a functional behavioral assessment in the evaluation process, when schools should seek specialized evaluators to complete an evaluation, common legal-defensibility issues regarding evaluations and reevaluations, handling parental requests for evaluations, and much more.   

Later in the session, Atty. Gilsbach does a deep-dive analysis of the legal parameters of independent educational evaluations (IEEs).  This will include exploration of the topics of when public schools might be required to provide an IEE at public expense, what parameters the IDEA sets for IEEs at public expense, and what policies and procedures public schools should have in place to address IEE requests.  We will also look at schools’ obligations when parents produce privately-funded IEEs.