In her presentation at the 19th Annual CASE (Counsel for Administrators in Special Education), Julie Weatherly mentioned a letter written by the Office of Special Education Programs addressing Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA). She summarized, "If an FBA is being conducted for the purpose of determining whether the positive behavioral interventions and supports set out in the current IEP for a particular child with a disabilitiy would be effective in enabling the child to make progress toward the child's IEP goals/objectives, or to determine whether the behavioral component of the child's IEP would need to be revised, OSEP believes that the FBA would be a reevaluation. However, if the FBA is intended to assess the effectiveness of behavioral interventions in the school as a whole, parental consent would generally not be applicable to such an FBA because it would not be focused on the educational and behavioral needs of an individual child." In the first situation, parental consent is needed.
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