Did you give an abbreviated neuropsych report to the school?

[Anonymous]

Which sections did you include?

[Anonymous]

The only thing we didn’t include related to drug use. Why do a neuropsych if you’re not going to give it to the people who need the information to provide services?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only thing we didn’t include related to drug use. Why do a neuropsych if you’re not going to give it to the people who need the information to provide services?

We gave the entire report to school but some give an abbreviated report to classroom teachers.

[Anonymous]

For one DC, we gave a redacted report that did not include a few sentences about family history and some medical information.

For the other DC, we gave an abbreviated report that did not include some lengthy portions related to depression and home life and instead was more oriented towards the diagnoses of ASD and ADHD and how they impacted school.

[Anonymous]

I had a bad experience sending in a redacted report for high school applications. We were just eliminating personal info, but nothing that damning, and the schools asked us about what was in the redacted part and why we redacted it. Kid didn't get in despite being an otherwise excellent student.

I had been advised that sometimes neuropsych evaluators do a "school" report versus a "full" report, and that would have been ideal for us. I was surprised when I received the "redacted" report but submitted it anyway.

Just wanted to throw that out there though I know this is all stressful business and don't want to create more anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would ask the neuropsychologist for a "school" report. Nobody there needs to know your family's medical history, how many pregnancies you've had, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I would ask the neuropsychologist for a "school" report. Nobody there needs to know your family's medical history, how many pregnancies you've had, etc.

This is OP. I will definitely ask them to delete all of this stuff.
I didn’t know whether other people leave in all the stuff about “mom reports that child does x at home,” which goes on for paaaaages in our report.

[Anonymous]

I considered that, but it was hassle, and so I sent the whole thing. For MCPS and now, college. The goal is for my child to receive his accommodations, so if it takes reading the entire lengthy document to convince them that the background research and analysis are substantive, so be it.

[Anonymous]

Our psychologist gave us a full report and a school version that took out family history, some unrelated medical info and other sensitive but not relevant to school info.

[Anonymous]

We took out family stuff, genetic stuff and medical stuff.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, IME, the only person in MCPS who is going to expend any effort reading your neuropsych is the person who is paid to do so and only because as part of their job, they are obligated to provide a summary of the report and to fill in paperwork regarding their summary during the IEP determination or re-evaluation.

I gave our DS’s neuropsych to his teacher prior to the beginning of the school year with a nice note saying that I encouraged him to read it as he might find it useful.

For months, I received emails about DS’s behavior, sloppy handwriting, not listening to directions, etc. The final straw was a phone call in which the teacher chided me for writing my DS’s homework, telling me that I was “robbing DS of the chance to work hard and experience the success of improvement from his own hard work.”. I calmly asked if he had ever read the neuropsych report I gave him prior to the start of school, to which he said “no” without an ounce of shame.

The neuropsych clearly stated that my DS is ADHD inattentive with dysgraphia a language disorder and extremely weak social pragmatics but a high IQ and, among the recommended accommodations was parent and teacher scribing of handwritten assignments longer than a couple sentences.

The teacher could have saved himself hours of frustration had he just read the report. Instead, he got reprimanded by superiors for his unprofessional behavior.

TL;DR - no one outside the psychologist is going to read the neuropsych.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, IME, the only person in MCPS who is going to expend any effort reading your neuropsych is the person who is paid to do so and only because as part of their job, they are obligated to provide a summary of the report and to fill in paperwork regarding their summary during the IEP determination or re-evaluation.

I gave our DS’s neuropsych to his teacher prior to the beginning of the school year with a nice note saying that I encouraged him to read it as he might find it useful.

For months, I received emails about DS’s behavior, sloppy handwriting, not listening to directions, etc. The final straw was a phone call in which the teacher chided me for writing my DS’s homework, telling me that I was “robbing DS of the chance to work hard and experience the success of improvement from his own hard work.”. I calmly asked if he had ever read the neuropsych report I gave him prior to the start of school, to which he said “no” without an ounce of shame.

The neuropsych clearly stated that my DS is ADHD inattentive with dysgraphia a language disorder and extremely weak social pragmatics but a high IQ and, among the recommended accommodations was parent and teacher scribing of handwritten assignments longer than a couple sentences.

The teacher could have saved himself hours of frustration had he just read the report. Instead, he got reprimanded by superiors for his unprofessional behavior.

TL;DR - no one outside the psychologist is going to read the neuropsych.

That’s so arrogant of you. If you wanted to tell something to the teachers you should have gone through the school counselor and psychologist. At a minimum you should have had a parent teacher meeting and explained and then provided.

You can’t assign busy work to the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, IME, the only person in MCPS who is going to expend any effort reading your neuropsych is the person who is paid to do so and only because as part of their job, they are obligated to provide a summary of the report and to fill in paperwork regarding their summary during the IEP determination or re-evaluation.

I gave our DS’s neuropsych to his teacher prior to the beginning of the school year with a nice note saying that I encouraged him to read it as he might find it useful.

For months, I received emails about DS’s behavior, sloppy handwriting, not listening to directions, etc. The final straw was a phone call in which the teacher chided me for writing my DS’s homework, telling me that I was “robbing DS of the chance to work hard and experience the success of improvement from his own hard work.”. I calmly asked if he had ever read the neuropsych report I gave him prior to the start of school, to which he said “no” without an ounce of shame.

The neuropsych clearly stated that my DS is ADHD inattentive with dysgraphia a language disorder and extremely weak social pragmatics but a high IQ and, among the recommended accommodations was parent and teacher scribing of handwritten assignments longer than a couple sentences.

The teacher could have saved himself hours of frustration had he just read the report. Instead, he got reprimanded by superiors for his unprofessional behavior.

TL;DR - no one outside the psychologist is going to read the neuropsych.

Did you have a scribe written into the IEP?

[Anonymous]

It’s important to know how the kid acts at home. It’s part of the overall picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, IME, the only person in MCPS who is going to expend any effort reading your neuropsych is the person who is paid to do so and only because as part of their job, they are obligated to provide a summary of the report and to fill in paperwork regarding their summary during the IEP determination or re-evaluation.

I gave our DS’s neuropsych to his teacher prior to the beginning of the school year with a nice note saying that I encouraged him to read it as he might find it useful.

For months, I received emails about DS’s behavior, sloppy handwriting, not listening to directions, etc. The final straw was a phone call in which the teacher chided me for writing my DS’s homework, telling me that I was “robbing DS of the chance to work hard and experience the success of improvement from his own hard work.”. I calmly asked if he had ever read the neuropsych report I gave him prior to the start of school, to which he said “no” without an ounce of shame.

The neuropsych clearly stated that my DS is ADHD inattentive with dysgraphia a language disorder and extremely weak social pragmatics but a high IQ and, among the recommended accommodations was parent and teacher scribing of handwritten assignments longer than a couple sentences.

The teacher could have saved himself hours of frustration had he just read the report. Instead, he got reprimanded by superiors for his unprofessional behavior.

TL;DR - no one outside the psychologist is going to read the neuropsych.

That’s so arrogant of you. If you wanted to tell something to the teachers you should have gone through the school counselor and psychologist. At a minimum you should have had a parent teacher meeting and explained and then provided.

You can’t assign busy work to the teachers.

You clearly did not understand PP's situation. Please don't be nasty on this board. We're dealing with a lot.