Is my 5 year old too young for a neurospychological evaluation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, just because a parent requests testing, that does not mean it automatically happens. There needs to be evidence that the student is not making sufficient progress. AND if there are other factors that might contribute to the lack of progress, those may need to be ruled out or addressed before testing, ie the child has recently failed eye exams and hasn't gotten glasses yet. This is a team decision--school psychologist, teacher, special Ed teacher, administrator, social worker and parent.

PP. In our case, DC's teacher thought an evaluation was a good idea so maybe that's why I only needed to send a request to the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, just because a parent requests testing, that does not mean it automatically happens. There needs to be evidence that the student is not making sufficient progress. AND if there are other factors that might contribute to the lack of progress, those may need to be ruled out or addressed before testing, ie the child has recently failed eye exams and hasn't gotten glasses yet. This is a team decision--school psychologist, teacher, special Ed teacher, administrator, social worker and parent.

PP. In our case, DC's teacher thought an evaluation was a good idea so maybe that's why I only needed to send a request to the principal.

But you had to sign off on testing, yes? And by testing I mean a full battery of educational and psychological tests. There has to documentation of what types of evaluations are going to be used and a place for you to sign your consent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, just because a parent requests testing, that does not mean it automatically happens. There needs to be evidence that the student is not making sufficient progress. AND if there are other factors that might contribute to the lack of progress, those may need to be ruled out or addressed before testing, ie the child has recently failed eye exams and hasn't gotten glasses yet. This is a team decision--school psychologist, teacher, special Ed teacher, administrator, social worker and parent.

PP. In our case, DC's teacher thought an evaluation was a good idea so maybe that's why I only needed to send a request to the principal.

But you had to sign off on testing, yes? And by testing I mean a full battery of educational and psychological tests. There has to documentation of what types of evaluations are going to be used and a place for you to sign your consent.

Yes, but that was a formality and the 90 day time clock started from the day I sent the principal the email requesting an eval. The pp poster said MoCo told them it took 18 months to get a neuropsych eval through the school system which makes no sense whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

We did our first one with Dr. Penny Glass at Children's at 3 and our second at 4. It was an evaluation that was very similar to a neuropsych but it was different b/c of her age.