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[quote=Anonymous]We used her and we like her.  Unless your child has a visible and clearly devastating disability, MCPS is however very tough and if you need to fight with the Public school i would suggest someone else.  Her practice is not really set up to FIGHT with MCPS.  Her practice is more focused on family and child interventions.  I think she is frankly as flummoxed with MCPS as many parents here, but her focus is not school reform or battling bureaucrats.

There are other practices where the doctor will attend the IEP meetings and basically mop the floor with the MCPS psychologist. I think if you want an IEP in MCPS (particularly for high IQ but with ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia or other dys.. diagnosis) you need your own psychologist (who relishes winning a BATTLE with MCPS) & possibly an advocate (with a winning track record) to come to all meetings with you - logistically challenging and expensive.  There is another chain going on now about how MCPS is not following the law and perfectly epitomizes all the "what not to do" in a recent DOJ "dear colleague" letter articulating what not to do with respect to ADHD.

our child is doing well academically, so getting anything more than a 504 from MCPS is a huge challenge.  We elect to put our money into individual therapy, tutoring, and other beneficial activities.  If our child was more severely impacted, 20/20 hindsight being everything, I would have gone to a practice that is more geared to go into battle for you and I would have changed my whole dynamic to get ready for battle instead of thinking the school would take resnik's report and actually follow the law.  We got completely bamboozled by them first go round.  they could not understand how a smart kid could have dyslexia and ADHD.  Like it was impossible to provide an intervention even if they are doing well academically (completely forgetting that based on IQ they should be doing better and felt terrible about themselves).   Could not even get a 504.  It took an advocate and change of school to get a 504.  [/quote]

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