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[quote=Anonymous]You can schedule a private neuropsych. That’s what we did to have our son diagnosed years ago. We used Children’s but there are many neuropsych practices in the area. You might need to call a few because appointments can be hard to come by. I know Childrens always has a terribly long waitlist. Years ago you could request to be placed on the cancellation list to speed it up a bit. But honestly while we had a great experience with testing, they make the entire scheduling process a pain.

We actually started with MCPS who claimed in 2nd grade their testing found no LD. We knew that wasn’t possible. The 3rd grade teacher said she was certain they missed it and would go to bat for our son if we did private testing. So we did. We brought the private testing report and an advocate to the table. The neuropsych called in. The teacher spoke up. We got the IEP for specific learning disability.

I wish I had known that MCPS does a crappy job with LD. We had a beautiful IEP with great accommodations and lots of service hours but they didn’t provide any evidence based intervention. So you will likely need to do outside tutoring/therapy. We sent our son to McLean School for their summer writing intensive, did lots of OT and worked with him at home. We later moved him to a private school that provided a very strong language arts curriculum. A few years later follow-up testing showed his LD was successfully remediated.[/quote]

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