Originally Posted by Dottie
JB, I'm in PA myself. If you can get early testing, more power to you, but my bet is you'll have to go through the queue. FWIW though, state mandate DOES require testing and services in K, so get that paperwork in right from the start, if other more productive avenues don't pan out. However, natural timeout of the testing won't put you in your first GIEP until right around Christmas.

That's one thing I considered: bringing a written request letter for evaluation to the meeting in case we need it (there is a sample on the PA state site). Thanks for the suggestion. From what I read that process does take a while.

JB