Services includes the school making some sort of accomodation for the girl. A dog in class is going to be a HUGE distraction to a class of 7 year olds, and that needs to be dealt with. A girl at my wife's school is blind and has to have an aide with her to help her with braile. She needed an IEP for that, even though it just meant that she'd have someone sitting next to her most of the time.
This is just the mom trying some sympathy ploy to not have to go through what every other family in this situation has to go through.
Unfortunately, the press eats this up and makes it look like the big mean school is the one at fault. But it's the mom who thinks that the rules don't apply to her who should be blamed.
Why should this epileptic girl, or the blind girl be subject to a phychological evaluation?
Please be specific.
A dog in class would probably be a bit of a distraction on the first day. But after the teacher explains to the students why the dog is there, and that the dog is a working dog and shouldn't be petted or bothered in any way by the students, then the students will pay less attention to the dog and focus on their teacher instead.