Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CI - Bulletin 1508-Pupil Appraisal Handbook
Chapter 1 - LEA Responsibilities
Section CI-107 - Qualified Examiners
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CI-107
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1941 et seq., require that a student suspected of being exceptional receive a comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation conducted by qualified examiners. Qualified examiners include pupil appraisal professionals certified by the state Department of Education and professionals from other agencies or in private practice, as described in this Section.
1. Professional members of a pupil appraisal
system include certified Assessment Teachers/Educational
Consultants/Educational Diagnosticians, Certified School Psychologists,
Qualified School Social Workers; Speech/Language Pathologists, Adapted Physical
Education Teachers; Audiologists; Certified School Nurses, Occupational
Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech and Hearing Therapists, and
Speech/Hearing/Language Specialists.
2. LEAs shall regularly employ certified
pupil appraisal personnel to conduct individual evaluations, but may also
employ others as listed below:
a. qualified
examiners available from the Department of Health and Hospitals, the Department
of Public Safety and Corrections, the State Board Special Schools, or other
public agencies;
b. private
qualified examiners contracted to provide specialized assessments;
c. the student's teacher(s) as member(s) of
the evaluation team;
d. a
combination of the personnel listed above.
3. LEA-selected evaluators in music, theatre,
or visual arts must not be employed by the LEA conducting the evaluation and
must be on the state Department of Education approved evaluator list.
4. Regardless of the approach used for
conducting individual evaluations, LEAs retain full responsibility for the
individual evaluation. Any failure by an employee or contractor to meet the
requirements of this Handbook constitutes a failure by the LEA to comply with
Bulletin 1706:
Regulations for the Implementation of
the Children with Exceptionalities Act;
R.S.
17:1941, et seq.
5. Professionals in private practice who
provide evaluations for educational use must meet the standards of and comply
with the rules and regulations set by their respective statutory professional
boards. Certification by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
is not required for these persons; however, Educational Assessment
Teachers/Diagnosticians or Educational Consultants are required to be certified
by the Department of Education, since licensing for independent practice does
not exist.
a. Professionals employed by
another state agency must meet the professional standards of that agency and be
qualified through training to conduct evaluations.
b. The results of an evaluation conducted by
these professionals may be used by an LEA in determining a student's
eligibility for special educational services. It remains the LEA's
responsibility to ensure that the student is evaluated and that his or her
eligibility determination has been in accordance with the requirements of this
handbook.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:1941 et seq.
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