How long for IEP?

Re: How long for IEP?

• kcisthebombdotcom member

  February 2013

  We had our initial meeting at the end of September. His eval was done in mid November. His IEP was finalized that same week and we started therapy the day before his third birthday.

  

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• Louise06 member

  February 2013

  We applied in April and the IEP was done at the end of September.

  
  
  

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• mom2pottamus member

  February 2013

  My initial request for evaluation was early October, we got the results of the assessment 6 days before Christmas, and we had his IEP mtg Jan 7th.  Services started the week after the IEP mtg.  I am in PA.
  

  

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• macchiatto member

  February 2013

  Ours was when we were transitioning from Early Intervention. They started the process in I think November and had the IEP in place by early January, right before his 3rd birthday.
  

  fraternal twin boys born january 2009

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• MaxandRuby member

  February 2013

  A few months.  Evals were done by the school in late August last year. 1st IEP meeting was towards the end of September. 2nd was held early November. I had to request an IEE. As of the other night, it appears we finally have an agreed to IEP. No signatures yet but it is coming. DS2 turned 3 this past October and I have felt like an unpaid admin assistant dealing with the school. They have taken their own sweet time to get things done and/or get back to me on stuff. It has been completely ridiculous. DS2 has not started in the developmental preschool classroom yet but I am hoping he will by the end of this month/early next month...but of course, I'll probably have to contact the school once again to get things moving.

  The short answer to your question is as of right now, going from the 1st IEP meeting we are heading towards 5mos and he hasn't started the school yet. Some of this delay is my fault (like not just blindly accepting what they said, actually reading the reports, asking questions, etc.) but some of this delay is their fault also.

  ETA: If you go from the "transition" type meeting to now, we are talking it has been just under a year.  And by transition type meeting, I mean the meeting (at least for me) that I had with the service coordinator of EI and the special ed coordinator of the school district as basically a heads up of what would be happening. That occurred in March of last year and was held about 6mos prior to DS2 aging out of EI.
  

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• tmrchi member

  February 2013

  Special Ed teacher chiming in...

  Legally a school district has 60 school days to complete an evaluation unless you agree to extend that timeline.  Most try to do it within 60 calendar day.  (I'm pretty sure that is the federal law, different states vary slightly)

  You can also (politely) ask for reports ahead of the meeting so you can read through them ahead of time.  In my district, we always try to send home reports a week ahead so parents have some time to digest information and are able to come to the meetings less overwhelmed.

  

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• houndbaby member

  February 2013

  We moved from EI right into public schools and it was pretty smooth, we notified them 60 days before his 3rd bday and they got all the evals and everything done within those 60 days so that he started all of his services with the school district on his 3rd bday.

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