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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - sorry to hijack.  Would school testing identify any relevant diagnoses?[/quote]

School psychs can't diagnose. They can identify behavior/test scores/etc consistent with certain diagnoses and will make recommendations as to whether the student qualifies for an IEP under one of the 13 eligibility classification codes.[/quote]

If I bring a school report to my psychiatrist or therapist, can they diagnose?

I thought the school could diagnose learning disabilities or ADHD? (I'm pretty sure it's ADHD and wanted to know if there's also a LD or if the attention is what's holding her back).[/quote]

You'd have to ask your psychiatrist and therapist if they would diagnose off someone else's testing and, if so, what information they would need included.

For LDs, a school psych can recommend that the team find the student eligible under specific learning disability, and then the team will go through the LEA's definition of LD. At least in DCPS, what that mostly looks like is comparing WIAT achievement tests to IQ and seeing if there's a discrepancy. You won't get any of the richness of data that you would get from private testing. But maybe you don't need that, if you're going to go forward with remediation anyway.[/quote]

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