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[quote=Anonymous]School testing can surprisingly be really thorough particularly if you get an experienced and competent school psychologists. Add to that it’s free. The other benefit is that they can test the student over time because if they start having attention issues they can send them back to class and get them the next day. Also they will observe them in class.

Now the con is that they are going to downplay issues because they are under pressure not to qualify so many students or if it isn’t that they see students who are really really low so it might be your child isn’t that low so in comparison but you have didn’t do much money on tutoring or other interventions so the are just above academically where they need to qualify.

Outside testing also depends on the skill and expertise of the tester and some parts of the testing they might farm out to an assistant. It can be costly and generally they don’t observe at school. They sometimes have a tendency to over diagnosis and will keep testing until they find a low area. If insurance is paying most insurance will only pay if there is a diagnosis. It can help convince the school there is an issue.

The downside to BOTH of these is that if you are wanting testing you already know there is an issue. It is helpful to ask to speak to the special Ed teacher at the school your child attends. If they can’t even answer basic questions then even if your kid qualifies what is the point if a bad teacher is going to be working with them. Or if your child has dyslexia and they say they generally only push in and don’t have an OG reading program.

We actually took our kid out of special Ed when we realized how awful it was. He kept being placed in an inclusion classroom that didn’t meet his needs. It was half general Ed half special Ed and he got no real help with reading even though on paper he had a great IEP.

The best thing we did was go full throttle on tutoring and buying OG curriculum so we could work with him at home. A friend at the school was going to have her child assessed but there was a long wait for a neuropsych assessment and she heard  how bad does services were at school. She spent the money instead on Lindamood bell and her 4th grader who was reading around a first grade level  increased like three grade levels in around 12 very very intensive weeks of tutoring. I think it was 4 or 5 hours one on one for those 12 weeks. It was crazy expensive but it worked. [/quote]

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