ISBE due-process decision · FY 2010
Illinois due-process decision 2008-0342: split decision
The parent alleged inadequate evaluation, services, participation and IEP. The hearing officer upheld the eligibility and placement but found failures in assessment, parent participation, goals, speech services and transition, ordering evaluations, IEE payment and compensatory speech therapy.
Outcome: Split decisionDisability: Intellectual DisabilityHearing officer: Full decision (PDF, ISBE)
Filed by
The parent
Issues in dispute
Eligibility/evaluation/child findProcedural/parent-participationIEP adequacy/implementationIndependent educational evaluation (IEE)Transition/secondary services
Relief ordered
IEP revisions, 60 minutes weekly speech, OT evaluation, payment of private evaluations, transition consultant, one year of compensatory speech therapy.
From the decision
As a compensatory service for [the district's] failure to adequately assess and provide with speech and language therapy
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