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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We worked with Dr. Kraper at CAAT last summer. She was good, patient and kind to our DD (6 at the time). It did take a couple months to get our full neuropsych assessment but she provided an executive summary and we moved on her initial suggestions. She also mentioned willingness to be part of our IEP committees and allowed us to have a follow up meeting about a year out to discuss our progress and provide confirmation/guidance. [/quote]

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback! Did you feel like her assessment was thorough and accurate? Did she really seem to "get" your child? Were the suggested interventions helpful? We are less on the learning disability path with our DS who is 7 (doing fine in school so far, testing on grade level, and probably wouldn't qualify for an IEP right now even if we tried). Our issues are more behavioral.

We are seeking the evaluation/diagnosis somewhat preemptively - to better understand him, and to know what we can do at home or in private therapy settings to offer more support. Although there are probably some 504 school accommodations that could be helpful right now. DS is somewhat complex because he doesn't neatly fit into any boxes and works really hard to effectively mask at school. ADHD, anxiety, Autism (or all of the above) have been suggested, but none of them seem like the "perfect" fit. We want to work with a psych who will keep an open mind and take a wholistic approach. [/quote]

Good question as we are also slated to work with her in the coming months...[/quote]

Apologies, I missed your question. I was the PP with good review of Kraper/CAAT. I do think she "got" my DD. My DD also had kind of a mixed bag of behavioral stuff, also about average in school. Her recommended interventions were comprehensive and I have mostly followed them. I do think they have been a good fit- for details we were recommended to begin medication, add pragmatic speech to the OT we were already pursuing, keep providing opportunities for social engagement and consider social groups. We have done all but the last- we found CAAT's group to be a bad timeslot for our family and very expensive. DD does lunch bunches and we have her in several more mainstream kid activities which she is loving. FWIW our school has been pretty resistant to anything but a 504 and our current 504 works pretty well, is keeping DD supported. We pursue some private tutoring to help keep up in some areas of academic challenge, namely math. Dr. Kraper also gave us some time about a year out from our assessment to reconvene, regroup on what was working and it was a good meeting. Reinforced all of the different interventions we have put in place. I do think when we re-assess in another year we will go with KKI or Children's simply for the price differential, but we were happy with our experience at CAAT and with Dr. Kraper. [/quote]

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