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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused. What did the evaluation from the SlP show? Why do you need something else if the child was already diagnosed ? Seems like a strange approach [/quote]

It doesn't sound like the child got a full speech evaluation but school was concerned and OP agreed to ST.  New therapist can do a full evaluation and then give that to the school to justify services.[/quote]

OP here. She did have a full eval and got a diagnosis. But since that was done by an SLP, her school is saying it’s not sufficient.

Her school is saying that in order for a kid to receive pull out services, they need a neuropsych eval with a diagnosis of a learning disability.

This is throwing all the providers who come to the school for a loop, as it wasn’t the policy in past years. They are needing to suddenly fit all the speech kids in after school, unless they have a neuropsych eval and LD diagnosis, which many of them do not.[/quote]

That makes sense but a learning disorder is separate from a speech disorder so if child is not having academic issues it's absurd to spend the money for a neuropsych when that money is better spent on speech therapy.  I'd ask for the policy in writing.  Can you do a psycho-educational instead which would be cheaper?  We had to pull our kid out of school a few times a week for a few years prior to getting an afternoon appointment.[/quote]

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