Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education and Culture › 76 - Children Requiring Special Education › Section 10-76d - Conditions of instruction › Section 10-76d-14 - Trial placement for diagnostic purposes

Current through July 10, 2024
Each board of education may use trial placement for
				  diagnostic purposes as part of the initial evaluation or reevaluation of a
				  child. This shall mean a structured program, of not more than forty school days
				  duration, the purpose of which is to assess the needs of a child who is or may
				  be a child with a disability, but for whom the evaluation or reevaluation is
				  either inconclusive or the data insufficient to determine the child's
				  eligibility for special education and related services or to develop or revise
				  the child's individualized education program. A trial placement for diagnostic
				  purposes is an evaluation and shall not be the current educational placement of
				  a child for purposes of determining the child's status during due process
				  proceedings in accordance with
				  20 USC
				  1415(j) of the IDEA and the
				  regulations adopted thereunder, as amended from time to time, unless the
				  parents and the board otherwise agree. If a trial placement for diagnostic
				  purposes is conducted as part of a referral, the timeline for the
				  implementation of the IEP in accordance with section
				  10-76d-13 of
				  the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be extended by the PPT for
				  the time necessary to complete the trial placement for diagnostic
				  purposes.
(a) The planning and
				placement team shall specify, in writing, diagnostic goals and objectives, as
				well as the types and amounts of services needed to conduct the trial placement
				for diagnostic purposes in order to determine more conclusively the child's
				needs.
(b) The planning and
				placement team or, if the parents and the PPT agree to designate members of the
				PPT, such designated members, shall meet at least once every ten school days
				with personnel working with the child to discuss the child's progress and to
				revise, where necessary, the services being provided.
(c) A child's time may be divided between the
				trial placement for diagnostic purposes and another program, or the child may
				be placed in the trial placement for diagnostic purposes full-time. Decisions
				regarding such options shall be made by the planning and placement
				team.
(d) A trial placement for
				diagnostic purposes shall be terminated as soon as the child's needs have been
				determined, but in any event no later than forty school days after the trial
				placement for diagnostic purposes begins.
(e) Five school days before the end of the
				trial placement for diagnostic purposes, the planning and placement team shall
				reconvene to determine the child's eligibility for special education and
				related services, as appropriate, or review, revise or develop the child's
				individualized education program, as appropriate, based on findings made during
				the trial placement for diagnostic purposes as well as other evaluative
				information regarding the child.