Appendix B: Sample PWN 4
Unilateral Placement and Reimbursement
Date
Parent/Guardian Address Line 1 Address Line 2
Subject: Unilateral Placement and Reimbursement – Johnny Doe (DOB 01/11/00)
Dear Parent/Guardian,
This letter is in response to your request for reimbursement of privately obtained clinic-based speech and language services in the amount of $2,800, and removal of your child, Johnny Doe, date of birth: 01/00/00, from the school district program to place him in the CARD Program for 40 hours per week. Please consider this the District’s response to your request under 34 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) Section 300.500 and 300.503. The District is denying your request because it does not believe changing Johnny’s program will help him receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE). The placement and services offered by the District at Johnny’s IEP meeting on February 5, 2007, meet his educational needs in the least restrictive environment. In order for Johnny to accomplish his goals and objectives, generalize his skills he learns in the half-day kindergarten special day class (SDC), and to better prepare him for first grade, Johnny requires both a half-day kindergarten SDC and a half-day general education kindergarten class, rather than a one-to-one in-home program like the one provided by CARD. The District considered the Regional Center assessment report dated June of 2006, the private speech therapist’s progress reports dated from October 2007 to the present, the District assessment reports in the areas of speech and language, academics and psycho-education dated January 15, 2007, the report of the private speech and language therapist dated April of 2007, as well as the December 2007 observations of Johnny by the school psychologist and speech therapist while he received services by his private speech therapist. The District considered reimbursement for the privately obtained speech therapy services for Johnny but decided against doing so because the private speech therapist did not address any of the goals in his IEP and Johnny made progress towards his speech and pragmatic goals worked on by the District school speech therapist before Johnny started receiving the private speech therapy services during the summer of 2007. Because Johnny is making substantial progress toward all of his goals and objectives and an in- home program would not help him towards generalizing the skills, he learns during the school day or help him sustain his friendships at school, all of which will better prepare him for first grade, the District does not believe changing Johnny’s program will help him receive a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
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