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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were like a scarlet A around our child’s neck.[/quote]

That is not even possible. No one knows unless you told them.

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You have to tell the schools if you want to be truthful when they ask the question in the application. When they didn’t ask, child was accepted. When they did ask, child was rejected.[/quote]

Could it be that when you did disclose, the school could read the report and didn't feel the instruction they were offering would meet the child's needs? And that the schools that did accept you did so without knowing that they were not going to be able to serve some of the child's needs?

When I saw my child's neuropsychological report, it became clear to me that he would benefit from dyslexic-style reading instruction even though he was diagnosed with ADHD.  The diagnosis of ADHD had caused the school to more closely investigate his reading skills.  Only the neuropsychological report made his specific language weaknesses apparent.  He was accepted at a school for dyslexic kids, even though his diagnosis was ADHD and not dyslexia, because the report made those language deficits clear, and it was obvious that the dyslexic-style of reading instruction would be helpful.  He spent about 2 years at that program, made a lot of progress, and then we pulled him and put him back in public school because he had been accepted at a magnet program.

Yes, in our situation, a diagnosis (ADHD) and sharing that diagnosis caused problems, but it wasn't because we shared, it was because of people's pre-conceived notions about the diagnosis and their refusal to do the assessment to understand co-morbidities.  The neuropsychological gave us valuable information to change instruction.

For us it mattered where our child goes to school - what would be a good instructional fit.  Today, he is graduating college with honors and considering a very demanding grad school program.  Without the neuropsychological, I don't think that would have happened.  Instead, he would have continued on the path he was on - downward spiraling self-esteem, thinking he was stupid (because teachers often sent him that message), failing to turn in assignments, starting to cheat (in 3rd grade!),  increasingly defiant (because he though he could never succeed), etc.

Even though he was young during that first report, we continued to get them done over the years.  The last one was at the end of high school. He was old enough to read it, and he said it described him really well.  The objective knowledge of his strength and weaknesses helped him through some rough patches in college.

Thank goodness we didn't think -- we know the diagnosis, we're doing medication and therapy for that, so no need for the psycho-ed assessment! [/quote]

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