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[quote=Anonymous]Long-winded mom back again.  I just re-read your post, OP.  If you are going to do any further testing, insist that it be blind testing.  I have found that if a psychologist has suggested that a patient has ADHD, then, of course, the tester finds ADHD.  Often testers will ask to see the old tests.  The last go-around, I refused and insisted on blind testing.  Guess what?  My son had undiagnosed Aspergers, not ADHD, so he is now on the autism spectrum (says so in the IEP) and you will get a much more serious response from the public school if you are autistic than ADHD.  Three previous rounds of testing had guessed "executive functioning" "maybe ADHD" "maybe anxiety disorder".  Only the fourth got it right and it was only when I insisted that he not see the file in advance.

One other nugget I've learned along the way is that some very clever parents have figured this system out and want their perfectly normal but underachieving kids to get extra time on the SAT or ACT (ACT is better for kids with learning disabilities).  So the school system sees a flurry of requests for IEPs and 504s between middle school and high school.  The schools are on to this so fight any "new" requests that come up just preceding the PSAT, usually in the freshman year.  I didn't know that at the time we applied for our IEP - coincidentally in the summer before freshman year.[/quote]

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