Neuropsychs after high school?

[Anonymous]

Autistic teen received neuropsychs every 3-4 years while in K-12 school. Although her diagnoses didn't change, we always found them useful and insightful for education and therapy planning, as well as maintaining the numerous accommodations she needs. The last evaluation was after she turned 16, 3 years ago. She's now a freshman in college, with a full roster of accommodations, and is showing better than expected social success and the academic and executive function difficulties we expected (she's getting support). Is there a reason to repeat neuropsych testing at any point?

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Honestly, my child has had three and about to start high school I don’t see a need to repeat them again. The educational piece is helpful because you can see if their on grade level and such. The rest doesn’t change at all and you don’t need a full neuropsych at $5k for that

If she’s doing well then what’s in place is working. Why go through that again? I’m not planning to repeat my child’s in high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, my child has had three and about to start high school I don’t see a need to repeat them again. The educational piece is helpful because you can see if their on grade level and such. The rest doesn’t change at all and you don’t need a full neuropsych at $5k for that

If she’s doing well then what’s in place is working. Why go through that again? I’m not planning to repeat my child’s in high school

If your child needs accommodations in college, you might need to. Many schools want an evaluation no more than three years old. The college board may also want a recent evaluation.

[Anonymous]

No. We did two evals, one at 10 and the other at 16, to get accommodations in school and college. No reason to keep going. We know who our son is, and he knows who he is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, my child has had three and about to start high school I don’t see a need to repeat them again. The educational piece is helpful because you can see if their on grade level and such. The rest doesn’t change at all and you don’t need a full neuropsych at $5k for that

If she’s doing well then what’s in place is working. Why go through that again? I’m not planning to repeat my child’s in high school

If your child needs accommodations in college, you might need to. Many schools want an evaluation no more than three years old. The college board may also want a recent evaluation.

Tutor here. If your DC had a plan (504 or IEP) in HS, College Board will not (and should not) ask for updated testing. They might have done that a decade ago, but no longer. If you have a plan with accommodations, College Board will approve you for the same.

Some colleges require very specific things and updated testing for accommodations. Many do not. Those that do not recognize that asking for updated testing, especially in college when the school is no longer required to pay for it, is discriminatory and inequitable. Frankly, I think that colleges who do ask for expensive, updated testing for diagnoses that are widely accepted as chronic are asking for a lawsuit as there is no requirement in the law for a specific kind of testing or a specific time frame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, my child has had three and about to start high school I don’t see a need to repeat them again. The educational piece is helpful because you can see if their on grade level and such. The rest doesn’t change at all and you don’t need a full neuropsych at $5k for that

If she’s doing well then what’s in place is working. Why go through that again? I’m not planning to repeat my child’s in high school

If your child needs accommodations in college, you might need to. Many schools want an evaluation no more than three years old. The college board may also want a recent evaluation.

Tutor here. If your DC had a plan (504 or IEP) in HS, College Board will not (and should not) ask for updated testing. They might have done that a decade ago, but no longer. If you have a plan with accommodations, College Board will approve you for the same.

Some colleges require very specific things and updated testing for accommodations. Many do not. Those that do not recognize that asking for updated testing, especially in college when the school is no longer required to pay for it, is discriminatory and inequitable. Frankly, I think that colleges who do ask for expensive, updated testing for diagnoses that are widely accepted as chronic are asking for a lawsuit as there is no requirement in the law for a specific kind of testing or a specific time frame[b].

My 10th grader has had a 504 for ADHD with extra time and accommodations since 5th grade and he was still denied by the college board the first time he applied. So the bolded isn't universally true, especially for 2e kids.

Re your second point, there's no requirement that schools ask for certain paperwork, but neither is there anything in the law that prohibits it. As long as they abide by the legal definition of disability (an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity), they can decide how to assess that.

[Anonymous]

I’ve never heard of a college asking for updated testing for a current student, and I’ve had college kids with accommodations at 3 different schools. The only thing that you may need to look at is graduate school and GRE or other graduate level testing. I’m not sure how accommodations for that level works.

[Anonymous]

Neither one of my kids who had a 504 since elementary was required to present a new neuropsych for accomodations in college. Both were approved by the College Board and ACT for extended time and small group testing after we provided copies of their 504. They didn't ask for any testing.