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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thank you. I am planning to call Mindwell soon to try to get a test either before school starts or at the beginning of the school year - is that who people in Fairfax County typically recommend for this sort of thing? I don't think my health insurance will cover the testing and I'm not sure we want to wait a year to get medical testing anyway, right?

Also, will the dyslexia testing alone cost the $3000-4000 that everyone says this costs or will that be less since we're not testing for ADHD?[/quote]

If you do a full educational neuropysch, they shouldn't be pre-choosing a diagnosis so, yes, ADHD might be in there as well. They should be looking at everything.

As for waiting a year for cheaper testing, it depends on how you want to go about it. TBH, the diagnosis itself doesn't matter as much as moving forward and getting appropriate instruction. You can do that now.[b] The school isn't going to do that much academically or support-wise for a 3rd grader so an IEP isn't a huge deal. [/b]You can talk to the school special ed department and your child's teacher and see if you need a 504. You don't really want the school's extra instruction anyway. It's not worth it. What you would want is maybe extra time on tests, a space to ask questions, and perhaps something re: spelling.

Figure out what you want to do financially re: testing. Try to do it now or wait. But, in the meantime, dive in headfirst into an OG tutor for multiple times a week. If DC responds well within,, say, four months or so, you'll kinda have your answer.[/quote]
I disagree with this advice because the IEP will be in place for 3 years and will give specific goals for the team to be working towards. [/quote]

To each their own. My kid has had an IEP since 1st grade. He's now in 7th. School interventions have done zero. I think the "goals" are nonsense in practice but look pretty on paper. All progress is from private tutors.

I'm not saying an IEP is useless. It's been especially helpful in middle school - but not because of pull-outs or interventions. Having access to the special ed teachers to ask questions and to go over something he doesn't understand has been great. [/quote]

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