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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would redo the Vanderbilt, to be honest. I have found teachers to be terrible reporters in middle school, and if you are in a place where they have retakes, they may not even remember that your child is capitalizing on thr retakes to succeed bc of inattention. I brought this history to the pediatrician so that the inaccurate Vanderbilts could be placed in context. My child has severe inattentive adhd and now, when medicated, has no panic attacks and no missing assignments. Keep working with the ped and if you don’t get anywhere, go elsewhere. I don’t know that I would pursue a full neuropsych for just adhd concerns unless you have other concerns as well. [/quote]

I would also reach out to a couple teachers re your child not turning in homework and any other ADHD issues they're having in school to get your kid on their radar and figure out who would be a good teacher to ask to do the rating. If your kid isn't hyper in class, teachers might not really be aware of his issues.

If you don't see any issues indicating a learning disability like dysgraphia or something like autism, you would probably be fine to just get an adhd assessment instead of a full neuropsych. The adhd portion of my kid's neuropsych was based on the Vanderbilt from parents and a teacher, parent interview, and a 20-30 minute computer testing portion where DS was supposed to hit a button only if a certain shape appeared, but the tester said that wasn't definitive and parent/teacher feedback was the main factor in the dx [/quote]

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