Educational Assessments - Autism Society Inland Empire

An evaluation can help you learn more about your child’s needs. When the evaluation takes place outside of school, it’s called an “outside” or “private” evaluation. Sometimes a school will pay for a private evaluation—that’s when you’ll hear the term “independent educational evaluation (IEE).”

A private evaluation is an evaluation by a professional not working for your child’s school. Because you pay for this evaluation, you have complete control over a private evaluation. You can choose which type of testing to have done. You can also choose the person who does the testing. The evaluation can be comprehensive or just focused on a single issue, and you can choose if you want to disclose the results to the school or other parties.

For an IEE, the school will usually agree to pay in cases where an outside evaluation is clearly needed, including when the school doesn’t have the staff needed to do the testing that your child needs; when the school’s evaluation team thinks outside testing is needed; or if you don’t agree with the results of a school’s evaluation, you have the right ask for what’s called an IEE at public expense – which means the school pays for it. The school will often give you a list of names to chose from, but you do not have to pick from that list. It does help if the person you choose is already a Non Public Agency through the school district.

Briese Learning Experience
37501 Windsor Court, Murrieta
(951) 461-9364
www.barbarabriese.com
Email: bjbriese@verizon.net
Licensed Educational Psychologist administers psychoeducational evaluations, offers counseling, mentoring and consultation.

Giorgio Jovani di Salvatore, MAED, ABSNP, LEP, CMIS
(951) 224-5085
http://neuropsych-evaluation.webs.com/
In-home and on-site assessments available. Experienced in the assessment of neuropsychological and neurobehavioral disorders, Mr. Garza-Johanson is a practicing bilingual psychologist who can provide independent educational evaluations (IEE), school neuropsychological assessment, psychoeducational assessment, private educational assessment, partial-assessments, educational consultation, and topic lectures. He is a Credentialed School Psychologist, Diplomate-American Board of School Neuropsychology, and Licensed Educational Psychologist, Board Certified to diagnose neuropsychological disorders that affect student learning, and provides routine assessment for identifying specific learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, C/APD, AD/HD, Autism, and FASD.

José L. Fuentes, Ph.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist
909-248-4332
www.fuentes.info
Offers Neurobehavioral Consultation, Neuropsychological Assessment, Independent Evaluations (IEE’s), Dr. Fuentes provides consultation services to assist families who have questions regarding services for their children with special needs. This service can include preliminary diagnoses for specific disorders, recommendations/referral for additional interventions and/or assessment, consultation on behavioral intervention, on-going support. Services English and Spanish-speaking families.

Laura Parres, Licensed Educational Psychologist, Psy.D., LEP
3576 Arlington Ave, Suite 107, Riverside
(909) 443-1844
https://www.lparres.com/contact
Licensed educational psychologist with over 15 years of experience who holds credentials as a school psychologist and school counselor. The focus of her practice is limited to psycho-educational assessment with the aim of assisting individuals and families in identifying specific learning disabilities, academic difficulties related to ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, global cognitive impairments and others. She specializes in bilingual assessment and is a bilingual/bicultural native Spanish speaker. The purpose of these assessments is to determine if an individual’s academic difficulties are due to linguistic/cultural factors and emerging English language proficiency or due to the presence of a specific learning disability.

Veronica Olvera, PSY.D.
11801 Pierce St., Suite 200, Riverside
(951) 266-6223
www.neuroedclinic.com
A Bilingual Clinical Neuropsychologist who is able to provide evaluations to your child in either English, Spanish, or Bilingual. In private practice since 2010 and has dedicated her practice to school-age children (ages 3 to 21), providing them with second opinion evaluations.

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