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[quote=Anonymous]I'll try to keep it short (newsflash: I failed).  My son is in kindergarden.  In the 10 or so weeks of school so far, he's had about 3-4 incidents where he's gotten disproportionately frustrated with things not going his way.  2 of the episodes involved playing with classroom toys, and he wasn't able to get the specific toys that he liked, so he apparently broke down and cried for awhile.  1 of the episodes involved playground activity where he is one of the slower kids and got frustrated and screamed/cried for awhile.  My understanding is that he recovers within a few minutes and his day resumes as normal.  We've seen some similar issues on occasion at home.  At school these incidents seem on average to be once every 2-3 weeks.  At home, it's probably similar frequency, maybe a little more frequent... every week or so.

The other issues involving handwriting.  The school administers a test where one of the elements is they give the kid a sheet that has some shapes (square, circle, triangle, diamond, etc.) on it, and the kid is supposed to copy the shape using a pencil, on the same piece of paper, right next to the printed shape.  My kid had trouble doing an accurate copy of the triangle and diamond but was fine on the 2 or 3 other shapes.  And apparently he got a little bit frustrated when he wasn't getting the triangle and diamond correct (no crying, apparently, just a little visible frustration).  Might be a fine motor skill issue.  Might be an issue being able to see something and then reproduce it.  Not totally clear at this point.  I think on every other aspect of this test he did OK, and apparently his overall score on the test was pretty typical for a 6-year old.

Based primarily on those two things (the incidents of disproportionate frustration, and the poor ability to copy certain shapes), the school is recommending a neuropsychological evaluation.  As far as we know, there has been so specific practice at copying shapes or specific attempts at remediating this behavior yet.

Do any of you have enough experience in this area to know whether the recommendation of a neuropsychological evaluation at this point is reasonable?

Essentially, I'm just hoping that somebody can give me a sanity check along the lines of "yep, totally normal for a school to request that you have a neuropsychological evaluation under these circumstances."  Or perhaps "nope, totally premature to request a neuropsychological evaluation at this point.  They should give you a chance to work on it and see if theres improvement first."  Because I just have no idea.

Thoughts/input GREATLY appreciated![/quote]

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