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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School psychologist here! It’s really a semantics question. We are not giving diagnoses in the educational setting, we are giving educational classifications. If I test your child and the pattern is clearly  dyslexia, I will tell you that! But there won’t be a piece of medical paperwork for your child’s record that says that. Instead, there will be an IEP under the category of specific learning disability. I would not encourage you to get private testing at this stage, as the school will give many of the same tests for free.[/quote]

Another veteran school psychologist here who would encourage the private report. I've seen so many examples of shoddy work by other school psychs particularly around learning disabilities. Many of them lack the time or training for accurate diagnoses.  Many have less training and skill set than a doctoral level psychologist. The private evaluations are much morepractice and accurate when done by a well regarded oractice.[/quote]

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