Districts run short of bilingual evaluators exactly when the referral list is longest. This is contract capacity: evaluations completed, written and defended at eligibility, in English or Spanish.
A bilingual referral should not wait for the one evaluator who can take it.
Evaluations conducted in Spanish, normed in Spanish, and defended at the meeting.
Scoped as contract work, so it can absorb a backlog rather than add to one.
Full case-study evaluations within timeline, including domains other providers commonly leave to the district to backfill.
Cognitive, achievement, processing and adaptive assessment, reported in language a team can act on.
Structured observation and rating scales, with the differential reasoning written out rather than implied.
Batería IV and Spanish-language administration, so the result is not an artefact of the language of testing.
Available to staff before the meeting, which usually shortens it.
Attendance at IEP eligibility, and the findings defended by the person who produced them.
Backlogs, timeline pressure, and bilingual referrals with no internal match.
Cases needing a differential that a screener cannot settle.
Where a Spanish-language evaluation currently means an outside referral and a wait.
Contract terms depend on volume and timeline. The first conversation costs nothing.
