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[quote=Anonymous]It would be unethical for any health professional - which includes psychologists and neuropsychologists - to provide an assessment and NOT diagnose a patient who met the qualifications for diagnosis.

Also, Stixrud isn’t an autism diagnosis mill. I’ve read many assessments from them, the vast majority of which have not been autism - lots of dyslexia, dyscalculia, adhd, other SLD, NVLD, ADHD, language processing disorders, post-TBI, etc.

I regularly see crappy public school IEP team “assessments” which form the basis of crappy IEPs or 504s, then at Stixrud (or frankly any other private practice), the testing is in depth and *honest*. I can’t believe some of the tricks I’ve seen public school Psychologists engage in to pull the wool over a parent’s eyes in order to convince them that their kid doesn’t have a “diagnosis” and therefore doesn’t qualify or has a “diagnosis” that doesn’t require special instruction and thus will only give a 504.

When my son read his own Stixrud report in high school, he said it described him perfectly.  Beyond the diagnosis, he was able to match test results with his own struggles and strengths.  It was priceless.[/quote]

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