What happens at an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) meeting? What are the parts of an IEP?
In essence an IEP includes several parts: • A statement about present performance (sometimes called a PLAPF) • Two or three goals with objectives • Information about where the services will be delivered At the meeting, the team should work to fill out these sections. This is supposed to be an INDIVIDUALIZED plan, so do not accept a pre-filled document that is written for someone else and then has the name changed to your child’s. However, the school psychologist or special education teacher may have filled out the performance statement ahead in order to save time at the meeting. If you do not understand any of the testing or anything written in the performance statement, ask the school to explain it to you. Don’t let them move ahead until you understand, because the results of these tests will be the foundation of the IEP. The section with the most need for group effort will be the goal statements and objectives. Be sure the goals are something you are interested in. Ask specifically h
