We are being asked to report progress resulting from counseling special education students.
Direct counseling is only a related service to back up the teacher's instructional program.
I believe that the teachers involved are better able to assess their students' progress. Certainly, strictly academic progress would be best monitored by the special ed students' teachers. One relatively easy way of doing this would simply be to use the GAF scale available in the DSM-IV . By rating the student on, say, a monthly basis, you will be providing a standardized index of overall level of functioning.