- Did you know you have the rights to an independent educational evaluation?
- Do you feel that your current IEP or 504 plan doesn’t offer the needed accommodations?
- Did your school evaluation not find evidence of a disability but you disagree?
- Are you in disagreement with your school district’s special education evaluation and have obtained permission from the district for an Independent Educational Evaluation at the district’s expense?
Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)
Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then an IEE could be right for you. An independent educational evaluation (IEE) is an evaluation of a student by a qualified professional who does not work for a school district responsible for the education of the child.
This evaluation generally takes 25 hours from start to finish, to include interviews, observations, records review, testing, scoring and analysis, a feedback session individually with the parent, and then a school meeting to share the results with the IEP team.
Testing Process: What’s Included
- $500 deposit collected
- Intake forms completed
- Upload of previous evaluations or helpful records
- Virtual intake scheduled with psychologist (if for a child, parents only) to review presenting concerns and answer questions.
- Generally, testing is done in one session.
- Depending on evaluation type, can last 3-4 hours with breaks.
- Dress comfortably, bring snacks and hydration.
- Digital rating scales sent to parents/partners/educators/pertinent collateral contacts with a Release of Information signed, the week following testing.
- Any needed follow-up information or data collection is scheduled.
- Psychologist spends between 5-8 hours scoring and synthesizing data.
- Between 2-3 weeks after testing, you will meet with the psychologist virtually to review initial findings of the evaluation. Appointment is generally 1 hour.
- Priority action plan and recommendations will be reviewed.
- Information from the feedback is often a part of the report finalization process.
- Final collection attempt of any outstanding digital rating scales.
- You will receive the comprehensive written report within 1 month of the feedback meeting. Clinicians and staff are working on several different reports at any given time and only certain days are allocated to writing (versus testing/consultation). It is not usually possible to expedite reports, and for equity in care, reports are provided in the order they are scheduled.
- After reviewing the report, reach out with any other questions you may have or to further process the findings and action items.
Assessment should be personalized, thorough yet not excessive, and culturally relevant. Therefore, we individualize our approach based on your presenting concerns, as well as what we experience in during the testing session while working together. Although not conclusive, here is a list of some of the assessments we may utilize, in addition to a review of records, interview, developmental history, and observation:
- Wechsler Preschool & Primary Scale of Intelligence-4th Edition (WPPSI-IV)
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-5th Edition (WISC-V)
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-4th Edition (WAIS-IV)
- Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 2nd Edition (CTONI-2)
- Developmental Profile, 4th Edition (DP-4)
- Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-3rd Edition (KTEA-3)
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-4th Edition (WIAT-4)
- Wide Range Achievement Test-4th Edition (WRAT-4)
- Process Assessment of the Learning-2nd Edition (PAL-II)
- Koppitz Developmental Scoring System for the Bender Gestalt Test-2nd Edition (Koppitz-2)
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5th Edition (CELF-5)
- Test of Auditory Processing, 4th Edition (TAPS-4)
- California Verbal Learning Test-Children’s Version or Adult (CVLT)
- Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment-2nd Edition (NEPSY-II)
- Wechsler Memory Scale-4th Edition (WMS-IV)
- Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
- Behavior Assessment System for Children-3rd Edition (BASC-3)
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 3rd Edition (Vineland-3)
- Functional Assessment Screening Tool (FAST)
- Vanderbilt Assessment Scales (Vanderbilt)
- Math Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS)
- Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders, Revised (SCARED-R)
- Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
- Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2nd Edition (MMPI-2)
- Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
- Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent (PAI-A)
- Sensory Profile-2nd Edition (Sensory Profile-2)
- Delis Rating of Executive Functions (D-REF)
- Brown Executive Function/Attention Scales (Brown EF/A)
- Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults-5th Edition (DIVA-5)
- Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in young people aged 5-17 years (Young DIVA-5)
- The Comprehensive Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, 3rd Edition
- Purpose in Life Test
- Prodrome Questionnaire
- Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics (CAPs)
- Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised (M-CHAT-R)
- Social Responsiveness Scale-2nd Edition (SRS-2)
- Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised (ADI-R)
- Childhood Autism Rating Scale, 2nd Edition (CARS-2)
- Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum, 2nd Edition (MIGDAS-2)
- Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd Edition (ADOS-2)
Ready to get started?
Contact our office with your district’s approval statement in order to secure a comprehensive evaluation that looks at your child from both the educational and neuropsychological lens. Call (408) 628-0532 or Text (408) 628-0532 now to schedule your IEE! Campbell Teen & Family Therapy, Inc. (CTFT) is proud to provide services for Campbell, San Jose and the entire Bay Area!
Fee: $5500.00