[Perform-Talk] Question

[Reggie Herbert]

Hi Leslie,

I'm not sure if there are laws specific to your state, but as far as I know, there is no requirement that assessments are required to be carried out by someone in the county. It is possible that there are members on the IEP team who suggested that is the case because it is school district policy that the assessments should be carried out by someone in the school district. This is often done to save money. However, school policy is simply a policy of the school district and they are not always known for having a student's best interest at heart. I'd ask for clarification on this point once you've done a little legal research to ensure that there isn't a law that requires this.

Also, unless there is a requirement that this assessment be done by a TVI, I would suggest that you are actually the one qualified to make this assessment. If you are a braille music instructor and have been teaching the student, you are uniquely qualified. If you can find some sort of standardized or other kind of assessment tool so that you can report the data necessary for the IEP to be executed properly, you may be able to suggest that you can provide this assessment. Maybe even offer them a discount, as flying someone in to do this assessment would be pretty pricey, haha.

Hope this helps!

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Subject: [Perform-Talk] Question

Hi all. I was at a students IEP meeting this afternoon and they have braille music instruction is one of the goals. However, since the TI is not comfortable doing a braille music assessment because he does not know braille music, they're looking for someone else who could assess the student. Apparently it has to be someone within the county that the student lives in. Does such a person even exist, someone that can do a braille music assessment? I've been working with this student since they were six years old. and yet I can't be the one to do the assessment because I don't live in the county that they live in. i'm just wondering if the school district is just wasting time spinning its wheels. I've never run into this before and I'm wondering if there's anybody who has and would appreciate any thoughts. apparently the school district can't move forward on this instruction because they don't have the data that they need. i'm kind of wondering what the point is since the student is working with me in the first place. Again, thoughts would be very much appreciated because I've never run into this before. This is also my very first time advocating at an IEP meeting so I'm new to this.uuu Leslie Hamric Cello and Braille Music Teacher


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