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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you were the one who suggested the evaluation and you are upset that the teacher agreed.  I don't see why you are resentful of that.  It sounds like all the teacher has done is some trouble shooting about how to help your DC at school, and she's been fairly successful at that.  I don't see how she has crossed a line or even gotten close to one.

I have to strongly disagree with the posters who say this is too young for an evaluation and to worry about labels.  The whole "label" thing does a great disservice to our kids.  Either they have a diagnosis -- in which case, great you know what you are dealing with -- or they don't have a diagnosis because one doesn't apply -- in which case even better.  These are not "labels", these are medical diagnoses.

Either get an evaluation or don't.  The issue isn't the teacher, the issue is what you do with the information you get from her, especially since she's not being particularly aggressive about it.  Don't get defensive about this, she hasn't done anything wrong.

I was told to get an evaluation by my DS' preschool.  I was angry and ranted that they were pathologizing normal behavior.  Eventually time passed and it clearly wasn't normal behavior and we did get an evaluation and my DS has Aspergers.  The school had not suggested a diagnosis, they had just suggested an evaluation.  And they were right.

There's a lot of anger in this thread towards teachers and clinicians but I have to tell you that teachers and clinicians have been the heros of my DS' life.[/quote]

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