The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The evaluation report and IEP alignment can look official while still leaving out the details a parent needs to understand what the school is promising, refusing, or measuring.
The free audit checks the language in the actual IEP against the student's documented needs so you can focus on the pages and questions that matter most.
Start with the situation you are actually in.
Open this review when you have an evaluation report and want to know if the IEP actually reflects the needs, recommendations, and data in that report.
This page is for preparing clearer school questions, not for deciding legal claims. The strongest next step is usually a specific written request tied to the IEP page and the data behind it.
The audit can review the IEP pages you include.
It does not stop at one concern or a short checklist. When the relevant pages are included, the audit reviews major IEP sections for unclear language, missing context, documentation gaps, and issues that may deserve a written question.
Evaluations and Present Levels
Check that the IEP describes the student's needs, strengths, baseline data, and current performance.
Goals and Progress Monitoring
Confirm goals are measurable, tied to documented needs, and supported by clear progress-reporting methods.
Services and Accommodations
Look for supports that are individualized, specific enough to follow, and clear about provider, frequency, duration, and setting.
Placement and Access
Review how the plan addresses classroom access, least restrictive environment, behavior, communication, and related-service needs.
Parent Concerns and Team Decisions
Make sure parent input, school refusals, Prior Written Notice, and important meeting decisions are documented clearly.
Procedure Questions to Verify
Identify notice, timeline, refusal, or vague-commitment questions that may need local verification before a parent relies on them.
What this review pays attention to
Along with the included IEP pages above, the audit pays special attention to these issues that may be relevant to this concern. These are examples of extra scrutiny, not the limits of the review.
Evaluation needs that never appear in present levels or goals.
Recommendations that were accepted, rejected, or ignored without written explanation.
Testing data that suggests related services, accommodations, AT, behavior supports, or transition needs.
Outdated areas where current school performance no longer matches old evaluation data.
A useful result points to a record, not a panic spiral.
This is the kind of parent-facing output the page is built around: a specific IEP section, the reason it deserves review, and one calm next step before any broader escalation.
Finding
Evaluation recommendation is not reflected
Evidence to check
The evaluation recommends support for written expression, but the IEP has no writing goal, accommodation, or service tied to that need.
Parent-safe next step
Request in writing that the team review the evaluation recommendation and document the team's response.
Upload only the records needed for this concern.
You do not need a perfect binder or every school record. Start with the current IEP pages tied to the issue, then add only the few records that explain the concern most clearly.
School evaluation or reevaluation report
Upload the testing summary, eligibility report, triennial, or evaluation pages the team reviewed.
Current IEP
Include present levels, goals, services, accommodations, placement, and related-service pages.
Private or provider reports
Add outside evaluations or provider recommendations you want the team to consider.
First written request
"Please show where the IEP addresses each school-related need and recommendation in the evaluation report, or provide the team's written explanation if it is not being addressed."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"Which evaluation finding most directly supports the goals, services, accommodations, and placement in this IEP?"
Get clearer questions from your actual IEP.
You do not need to compare every page to a checklist. Upload the relevant pages and let the audit help organize sections that may need clarification, weak language, or possible next questions.
Check the IEP LanguageWhat you get from the audit
The result is a prioritized review of the document, not another generic article.
Check the written commitment
The audit looks for missing provider, frequency, duration, setting, baseline, or progress-reporting details.
Tie concerns to records
It keeps the focus on IEP pages, evaluations, service records, progress data, and written decisions.
Prepare one safer question
The result helps parents ask for clarification without turning a document issue into a broad legal claim.
Check if the evaluation report and IEP alignment is specific enough for a parent to understand and the team to implement.
Which IEP page, evaluation, progress report, service log, or school notice should be checked first.
Which missing detail should become the first written question.
Which legal, deadline, consent, or state-specific issue should be verified before relying on the page.
How the free audit works
Upload the IEP you want checked
Use the current document from the school. You do not need to highlight it, organize it, or know which section is wrong first.
The audit reviews the pages you upload
When those pages are included, it reviews goals, services, accommodations, progress monitoring, parent concerns, and procedure questions for unclear language or missing context.
Get prioritized findings
See which sections may need review first, which page to ask about, and what to raise with the school.
Reasons parents run this audit
If any of these sound familiar, the written IEP deserves a closer look.
The evaluation names a need, but no IEP section addresses it.
Request that the team show where the need is addressed or explain the decision in writing.
A private evaluation is acknowledged but not discussed in the IEP.
Ask how the team considered the school-related recommendations.
The report is old and current needs have changed.
Ask if reevaluation or additional data is needed.
You do not have to sort through the IEP by yourself.
Start with the concern. When you want document-specific help, upload only the relevant IEP pages and the few records that explain the issue.
Check the IEP Language