Neurospych Testing Recs- Who did you use and did you love them?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Black at CAAT is excellent for autism/social cognition concerns. A neuropsych with him was a two hour parent intake session, about 8 hours of testing over two days, and a two hour parent debrief session.

Nope. Horrible experience.

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Another vote for Resnik or Stixrud!

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Anonymous wrote:IMO, copy and pasted recommendations are fine as long as they’re appropriate. My kid with ADHD has similar needs to other kids with ADHD - no need to reinvent the wheel. Each recommendation should be thoughtfully included, but I see no reason why each recommendation needs to be originally written for my kid’s specific report.

Well yeah I don't think anybody is looking for an evaluator to use completely original wording for every line of the report. That would start to get weird pretty quickly. I think most of us just want a report that is specific to our child meaning the recommendations selected have been thought through in terms of the child's specific strengths and challenges. Not just here's a bunch of things that might help a child with diagnosis X.

I got better recommendations from our educational consultant who is a former special ed teacher than anyone else.

Would you like to share who it was? Or is this just some bizarre brag?

Why would it be a bizarre brag? I’m not sure she wants to get DCUM attention. But she has experience teaching SN kids and also working closely with teachers and parents over long periods of time to see what works. She had very practical advice that worked. (And was a heck of a lot cheaper …)

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Anonymous wrote:IMO, copy and pasted recommendations are fine as long as they’re appropriate. My kid with ADHD has similar needs to other kids with ADHD - no need to reinvent the wheel. Each recommendation should be thoughtfully included, but I see no reason why each recommendation needs to be originally written for my kid’s specific report.

Well yeah I don't think anybody is looking for an evaluator to use completely original wording for every line of the report. That would start to get weird pretty quickly. I think most of us just want a report that is specific to our child meaning the recommendations selected have been thought through in terms of the child's specific strengths and challenges. Not just here's a bunch of things that might help a child with diagnosis X.

I got better recommendations from our educational consultant who is a former special ed teacher than anyone else.

Would you like to share who it was? Or is this just some bizarre brag?

Why would it be a bizarre brag? I’m not sure she wants to get DCUM attention. But she has experience teaching SN kids and also working closely with teachers and parents over long periods of time to see what works. She had very practical advice that worked. (And was a heck of a lot cheaper …)

That's great to hear that you found someone that worked for your family!

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Anonymous wrote:How about Kennedy Krieger?

+1 We used them. Excellent experience!