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[quote=Anonymous]I don't disagree with you about the neuropsych. They are always useful if you have the time and money. But I don't think FBA typically "miss the mark" because of the lack of a diagnosis. If anything I think they can help find issues that can give you clues to a diagnosis down the road is one is warranted.

This is if they are done right. If you start with the incorrect premise that a child is willfully disobeying a teacher and just seeking attention (the stupid scenario that MCPS guidance counselors seem to always start with for FBAs probably because it was the only example they got in their very brief training) but actually the child is overstimulated because of sensory issues then, yes, I can see how the FBA could miss its mark. But if you have a skilled BCBA they will be able to see the child has sensory issues and that finding may lead a parent to pursue further testing which may lead to a diagnosis of something or another.

In DC's case, part of the reason the FBA was so hard to get right with the first BCBA was that we began with a diagnosis we didn't know was a misdiagnosis until much later so all the initial assumptions were wrong. The second BCBA, who was more skeptical about the diagnosis and also had the benefit of knowing everything that failed with the first BCBA, figured things out very quickly and it the cause of the behaviors had nothing to do with the diagnosis/misdiagnosis.
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