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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here:
Is it even worth it to try and get diagnosed via school, for free? In terms of habit an official diagnosis, portable one too, and a full range of accommodations?[/quote]
You can give it a try, but generally, you want to be armed with as much evidence as possible when you try to get accommodations. The older your child is, the harder it is to get much beyond preferential seating, extra time on tests, small testing groups — in other words, things that take no money and little time or effort to implement. Schools want to provide fewer supports to middle schoolers than elementary students, and fewer to high school students than middle schoolers.

There will be accommodations that you don’t know to ask for, and they won’t mention. For example, our middle school offered a resource class that students could take instead of the arts rotation. Students in the resource class get some hand holding: help with organization, reminders of the due dates for every assignment, reminders about what hasn’t been turned in, communication between the resource teacher and classroom teachers. This was never mentioned to us, as parents of a student with both HFA and ADHD. She had to hit rock bottom before we were told about it. They can’t put every kid with ADHD in resource classes because they don’t have the staffing.

The school psychologist wants to help your child, but he or she is employed by the school district, so your child can’t be his or her first priority.[/quote]

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