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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want school services, [b]you are going to need the school eval regardless of the neuropsych. Even if the neuropsych recommends school services, it is still the school psych's evaluation that makes the actual determination. 
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In terms of diagnosis - the terminology is just semantics to some extant. The school will "identify" educational disabilities (the 13 categories of disability) and a private eval will "diagnose" based on the DSM or other medical classification system. [/quote]

The bold is not quite
right, at least not the way I've seen if work in MCPS.  In MCPS, the school psychologist can (but doesn't have to) accept the outside neuropsych and decline to do their own evaluation.  In that case the school psychologist reads and summarizes the report on an MCPS form and signs it and shares it with the IEP team (Parents have a right to access this school psychologist form - it is an "educational record" under FERPA.)

The IEP team still "gathers data" in the form of teacher reports and any state or local testing. But, that is not the same as the psychologist's assessment.

In our situation, when we presented a neuropsych report done by a PhD psychologist from a well known practice with all possible testing (IQ testing, achievement testing, checklists for like BRIEF and Connors, and computerized attention testing), there was basically no tests of her own that she could run. Anything that she did would be undermined by the fact that the school psychologist only had a Masters and our psychologist had a PhD. The school psychologist would have had to put in a lit of time to do as or more comprehensive an assessment, so it was easier just to accept testing.

OTOH, we have had IEP teams decline to accept a solo test we presented done by a speech and language pathologist because SLP's by law in MD are deemed not to be qualified to assess reading. [/quote]

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