The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The family may be scared, exhausted, and blamed for attendance while trying to understand if disability-related needs are affecting access to school.
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.
Start here when a child without an IEP is avoiding, refusing, or unable to attend school and you need to organize educational impact and support records before requesting evaluation or supports.
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 school refusal, avoidance, anxiety, health, or attendance problems are affecting educational access or progress.
Confirm the school has treated the issue only as truancy, discipline, or motivation without considering disability-related needs.
Look for records showing a request should ask for special education evaluation, 504 review, counseling supports, re-entry planning, homebound/home instruction review, or records.
Make sure urgent safety or mental-health needs require clinical, crisis, or emergency support before school-record steps.
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
Attendance issue may need support review
Evidence to check
The attendance packet lists absences and truancy warnings, but emails and nurse logs show panic symptoms, missed class transitions, and incomplete work.
Parent-safe next step
Ask the school to review disability-related educational impact and consider evaluation, 504, counseling, re-entry, or other supports.
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.
Attendance and school-impact records
Upload attendance reports, tardies, nurse visits, grades, missed work, class avoidance, discipline, or teacher emails.
Support and intervention records
Include counseling notes from school, attendance meetings, re-entry plans, homebound discussions, 504 notes, RTI/MTSS, or informal supports.
Health or mental-health information
Add provider or therapist notes only when they help explain school impact, safety needs, or support recommendations.
First written request
"For school refusal or anxiety, I am also contacting appropriate health or mental-health support. Please review if disability-related needs may be affecting school attendance, access, or progress, and let me know if the school will evaluate, review Section 504, or provide a written support plan."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What records show the attendance or anxiety impact on school access, and what evaluation, 504, counseling, re-entry, or instructional supports should be reviewed?"
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 school refusal, attendance, anxiety, and evaluation-support 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 child is unsafe, talks about self-harm, or cannot be kept safe.
Use crisis, emergency, or qualified mental-health support immediately; school-record steps can wait.
The school treats the absence pattern only as truancy while anxiety or health records show school impact.
Ask how disability-related needs and supports are being considered.
The parent is told to keep the child home until the school fixes everything.
Do not rely on that kind of advice. Seek clinical or local guidance and ask the school for a written support plan.
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