Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)

IEEs are initiated for several reasons. For example, the school may not be capable of providing the type of evaluation your child needs, you may disagree with the findings of the school evaluation, or feel that the school’s evaluation was not thorough enough.

Testing can take between 6 and 8 hours depending on how quickly the youth progresses and the youth’s individual needs. Testing is split between two days.

As with the comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, the typical areas assessed in this evaluation include cognitive ability or IQ, language skills, nonverbal skills including visuospatial and motor skills, memory functioning, executive functioning skills including attention, inhibition, and problem solving, and academic achievement. Emotional / behavioral functioning is screened for but not assessed for in-depth.

A one-hour school observation is included.

The school observation, interviews, rating forms, and formalized testing are integrated into a report along with any reviewed records (up to 1 inch thick). The report will provide any appropriate diagnoses and recommendations. The report is released to the family and school at the same time. The family is offered a feedback session.

Also allotted is one hour of virtual attendance at a school meeting.

This evaluation does not specifically evaluate for autism spectrum disorder; however, for a fee of $850 the specific diagnostic testing can be added.

The fee for this evaluation is $5,000.

This fee includes all aspects of the evaluation; the parent interview, record review, in-person testing including youth interview, rating forms comparing the youth’s behavior to other peers their age, one-hour school observation, collateral interviews with school staff and others (1 hour included), report to school and parent, feedback to parent, and one-hour virtual meeting with school.

Testing for autism spectrum disorder will be an additional $850 fee.

Travel time to the school is not included ($150/hour travel billed in 15-minute increments for any travel greater than 15 minutes outside the office).

If there are greater than 1/2 inch of records to be reviewed that will also be an additional fee.

Please know that schools will not fund this evaluation unless it is completed. If a family fails to complete the evaluation, they are responsible for payment of whatever portion of the evaluation was completed.