An IEP specifies the commitment of the school district to provide the services described, but it does not guarantee that your child will make the growth anticipated or described in the IEP. Your child will only have one IEP in effect at any one time. Your child's IEP should include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
- Your child's present levels of educational performance, both strengths and weaknesses.
- Your child's unique needs.
- Your child's annual goals and, when appropriate, short-term instructional objectives.
- A statement of the special education and related services and supplementary aides and services to be provided to the child.
- The extent to which your child will participate in regular educational programs.
- The date services will begin and how long they are expected to continue.
- Appropriate means to measure, on at least an annual basis, whether or not the educational goals and objectives (when appropriate) are being achieved.
- A statement of how the child's parents will be regularly informed of progress at least as often as parents are informed of their non-disabled children's progress.
- A statement of any individual accommodations and/or modifications needed in the administration of state or district-wide assessments and general curriculum.