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I highly encourage you to spend the money for testing. In the sum total of what you're going to spend on your child, college included, a 5K neuropsych is a drop in the bucket, but it's a critical drop, because there could be other things going on than just ADHD or dyslexia. You need the full picture, and a full neuropsych will provide it.

Your kid is young, and sometimes such evaluations don't reveal the full picture for young kids, who get tired of the questions and start losing interest and focus. If you want to conserve money, perhaps you want to wait a bit, while continuing with tutoring. But please accept that you might have to conduct several anyway.

Another thing is, if you want to suss out things other than ADHD, your kid has to be MEDICATED to conduct the neuropsych, otherwise the ADHD symptoms will mask everything else! This is very important. We had a short eval done by a developmental ped when DS was 6, which was inconclusive but tended towards ADHD with lots of other issues, and two neuropsychs, when DC was 10 and 16. His first revealed severe ADHD. His second, while medicated for ADHD, revealed autism level 1, that the first could not confirm (we suspected, however).

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