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To get PERA Services Inc. to assist with your case, your SPED Director or Supervisor will have to get involved. If they approve PERA Services as a vendor in your district, and we agree on a contact, Juliana can assist you with your case within the next two weeks. It’s a pretty straightforward process once the Director approves.

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At this time, PERA Services only provides in-person testing to school districts within our commute range…that usually being Central Ohio. If your school is outside that range, then we offer virtual evaluations using the Kanga by Presence platform. It’s amazing and every school psych we have worked with absolutely LOVES it. Kanga has all the major test batteries on the platform, and testing is a breeze! The school psych in charge of the case will get a briefing on the platform before our testing session. All you need is a chromebook and a quiet space.

If your district is on samegoal, we usually ask the supervisors to create an account for us. That way, we have access to the case and the student background info. You would add as an evaluator and when we are done testing the student, we simply add our evaluation results to the ETR as a part 1. We also add our summaries, and needs and implications too in Part 2 of the evaluation. It works like a charm!

At this time, PERA Services only provides Evaluation support to school districts in Ohio. We do not work outside of Ohio.

Once the contract is signed between PERA Services and the school district, testing usually happens within 2-4 weeks, this all depends on consent timelines and ETR dates. The ETR report part 1 is then submitted to the Team Chairperson 2 weeks after testing or before the ETR date, whichever comes first.

Yes! We can still help. Thankfully we have partner agencies we work with. We can support all your bilingual learner needs. While PERA Services specializes in the evaluation of Spanish speaking or Spanish dominant students, we can refer you to one of our partner agencies or find evaluators to assist you with your case.

Not necessarily. If the school district wants to handle planning and consent, and the ETR then an interpreter will be needed to obtain signatures from parents, BUT during testing, because all staff at PERA is bilingual, interpreters will not be needed. If the school wants PERA to handle consent, planning and ETR mtgs, then an interpreter will not be needed either.

It’s pretty simple actually! We set up a virtual meeting to talk about the case, typically between Juliana and the SPED Director or Supervisor, discuss the budget, fees and rates, sign a contract, and once both parties agree, Juliana will then follow-up with the team chairperson. Usually the bldg school psychologist. We then move on to discuss the case.

Yes!! We have a bilingual SLP that completes bilingual communication evaluations too! She’s also bilingual and bicultural and will gladly complete all Communication evals.

We assist in the evaluation process. We do as much or as little as each district needs/wants. The most common service is a Spanish cognitive and Achievement, but we also do communication evaluations, obtain Information Provided by Parent in an interview style, send out Spanish rating scales to parents in the areas of Adaptive Behavior, Social Emotional Status, etc.