The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The private aide recommendation and support-data 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.
This guide fits when a private evaluation recommends a one-to-one aide, paraprofessional, adult support, or close supervision and the school response is unclear.
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.
What school task, safety concern, communication need, health need, or access barrier the aide is meant to address.
Confirm less restrictive or different supports were considered and documented.
How aide support would promote access and independence rather than unnecessary dependence.
What data supports acceptance, adaptation, refusal, or a trial.
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
Aide recommendation needs a data crosswalk
Evidence to check
The private report recommends 1:1 support for safety and task initiation, but the school response does not compare incident data, independence, alternatives, or BIP supports.
Parent-safe next step
Request in writing that the team document the need, alternatives considered, independence plan, and written 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.
Private recommendation
Upload the aide recommendation, safety/access rationale, and any data about independence or support needs.
School support records
Add incident data, work samples, behavior notes, health/safety records, current aide support, and progress reports.
IEP and school response
Include services, accommodations, BIP, placement, meeting notes, PWN, and any alternatives considered.
First written request
"Please review the private aide recommendation against school data, including the access or safety need, alternatives considered, independence plan, and the team's written response."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What data shows if adult support is necessary, and how will the team avoid reducing independence?"
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.
Scan My IEP FirstWhat you get from the audit
The result is a prioritized review of the document, not another generic article.
Review the plan in front of you
The audit checks the IEP pages parents are being asked to use, sign, or discuss.
Spot the unclear section
It looks for goals, services, accommodations, progress language, or parent concerns that need a clearer written answer.
Prepare a focused next question
Parents get a document-based question they can bring to the team before agreeing to the plan.
Check if the private aide recommendation and support-data 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 aide recommendation is accepted or refused without data.
Ask what access, safety, independence, and progress data the team used.
Adult support is used as a catch-all for missing instruction, accommodations, or behavior supports.
Ask which need requires an aide and which need requires another IEP change.
There is no fading or independence review when adult support is proposed.
Ask how the team will monitor independence and access.
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.
Scan My IEP First