The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The private evaluation refusal and PWN record 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 the team declined a recommendation from a private evaluation and the parent cannot find a written decision explaining what was refused and why.
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.
Check if the parent asked for a covered IEP, evaluation, service, placement, or FAPE-related change.
Confirm the school proposed, refused, or deferred that request in writing.
What reasons, data, options considered, and rejected options appear in the record.
Make sure the next step is a PWN request rather than a broad accusation.
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
Refusal is verbal and not tied to the IEP page
Evidence to check
The private report recommends OT support, the parent asked for IEP changes, and the team declined verbally, but the record does not show reasons or data.
Parent-safe next step
Ask for Prior Written Notice or another written response tied to the specific refused request.
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.
Private evaluation recommendation
Upload the school-related recommendation and the page explaining the need.
Parent request and team response
Add the email, meeting notes, draft IEP, refusal language, or verbal-response summary.
Current IEP and school data
Include the IEP pages and school evaluation or progress data the team may rely on.
First written request
"Please provide the written decision for the requested IEP change tied to the private evaluation, including what was refused, the reasons, the data relied on, and the options considered."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What exact request was refused, and where is the written explanation?"
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.
Review the IEP FirstWhat you get from the audit
The result is a prioritized review of the document, not another generic article.
Choose the first issue
The audit helps parents sort the concern that should be raised first from the concerns that can wait.
Anchor the concern in records
It points back to the IEP page, progress data, notice, or school message that makes the issue concrete.
Write the next request
Parents get language for a focused written ask instead of a broad complaint.
Check if the private evaluation refusal and PWN record 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 team says no in the meeting but the final IEP does not explain the decision.
Request the written decision and data relied on.
The parent requests PWN for a conversation rather than a specific refused action.
Tie the request to the exact IEP change or evaluation request.
The private recommendation is clinical but not translated to school impact.
Ask what school-related need or IEP page the team considered.
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.
Review the IEP First