Check the list of resources in the back of this book. Help is often free of charge. The district must tell parents where they can get an IEE when the parent asks. The school also must tell the parents about the school's IEE criteria. Parents can pick who will do the IEE, but the people who do the IEE must be at least as qualified as the person doing the testing for the school.
Districts can set up policies or criteria for IEEs.
The school's criteria can say who can do IEEs and where IEEs can be done. The criteria must be the same as what the district uses when it has its own evaluator do evaluations. When the parents disagree with the school's evaluation, the district pays for the IEE, so there is no cost to the parent. The district can either pay for it or file for a due process hearing to argue either that the original evaluation was appropriate or that the IEE did not meet the criteria of the law. If the district goes to a due process hearing and the hearing officer says the district is right, the parents may still have an IEE done, but then the parents pay for it.