Did you give an abbreviated neuropsych report to the school?

[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.

No - not arrogant. That teacher was part of the IEP team. That report was also provided as part of the documents for the IEP meeting, which the teacher was expected to have reviewed. The school psychologist and counselor were already aware of diagnosis and recommended accommodations.

This teacher was not behaving professionally. I repeatedly redirected his attention to documents which would have answered the questions he was raising and given him techniques to cope. Instead he chose to child (and parent) shame a kid with a disability who was contravening behavior norms for reasons due to his disability. The shaming involved punishments and threats and withholding of privileges. This is illegal and retaliatory and could have left the school vulnerable to liability . His superiors understood that and corrected him appropriately.

Even our educational advocate commented that, for a new teacher, the teacher seemed strikingly unwilling to learn the basics of his profession.

If teachers want to be treated like professionals then they have to do their job like professionals.

[Anonymous]

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

+1

[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.

This made me laugh because we have had the same experience, schools just throw it out, and don't care, NO ONE READS IT except the school psychologist, or a sped teacher, and that's just a maybe. No one has time to read anymore these days, sadly. We even abbreviated it and nope, still no one reads it...it's only the therapist that come to the school that use it and share information with the school and teacher.

[Anonymous]

I had planned to redact large portions because I did not want it in the school record. Is that silly? We move quite often and I didn't want the report to be provided to other schools unless the school itself was going to implement an IEP (they denied DC once already). I was going to put in the details they would need to know to create an IEP or figure out what more they needed to do. If someone thinks that is a bad idea, I'm all ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had planned to redact large portions because I did not want it in the school record. Is that silly? We move quite often and I didn't want the report to be provided to other schools unless the school itself was going to implement an IEP (they denied DC once already). I was going to put in the details they would need to know to create an IEP or figure out what more they needed to do. If someone thinks that is a bad idea, I'm all ears.

I would at least leave the headings so it’s clear you redacted personal, medical, family history or whatever. I would not redact anything related to the testing results.

[Anonymous]

I just sent the recommendations section.