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Diagnosis must be current, less than a year old. You need to update it. Never trust the school's testing, because their "psychologists" are not PhDs and don't have the resources to evaluate children properly.

My son was given an IEP upon entering K based on his ADHD diagnosis. The school has been extremely helpful, which is the exception for an MCPS school! Usually parents have to fight every step of the way.

1. You get an updated diagnosis. We paid Stixrud $3,200 for a full neuropsychological evaluation when my son was 10 (parent interview, 8 hours of testing, feedback interview to explain the results). However I do not recommend such a long-drawn out process for a younger child. When he was 5, we got an ADHD diagnosis with a few hours of testing done by a reputable developmental pediatrician. $700. It is essential to re-evaluate every few years, because children change.

2. You contact the school to ask for an IEP meeting. You obtain the IEP on the strengths of the recommendations the psych or dev. ped. makes in his report. You ask for X, Y, Z services at school.

3. At the start of every school year, you send the IEP as well as a readable digest of accommodations to the new teacher, because they either are not made acquainted with their students' IEPs by the school admin, or they don't read them... but anyway they need to be aware of his needs, so you have to do it.

Good luck.
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