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[quote=Anonymous]Unless you're in a situation like 12:11 (hope everything turned out well), I agree that it's not usually necessary until the child is older. Two of my kids participated in NIH research studies for ASD/developmental delays - more thorough than the typical evaluation by a developmental pediatrician and less than a neuro-psych (We've had both so I can compare).  The oldest was 5 at the time and the youngest was 2.  My oldest has not had a neuro-psych eval because his challenges haven't been as significant and his challenges are as subtle/complex.  The younger had his first neuro-psych at age 8.  It was done by Stixrud and it was very thorough.  It was so comprehensive that our private SLP told us we didn't need additional speech/language testing because what Stixrud had done was so comprehensive.

At age 5, unless you're looking to tease out some issues and get some differentiation, I would start with a global evaluation from a dev ped. If the results of that evaluation lead to you think a neuro-psych would be beneficial, you can schedule it later.  Those evaluators would appreciate having the results from the dev ped evaluation as well as any other evaluations.

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