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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A neuropsych won’t get you the information you want. I would start with therapy (for you as a parent to handle difficult behaviors) and go from there. [/quote]

What? OP I’d ignore this comment because it is baseless. You can spend a lot of time and money on therapy and not really get anywhere. If you don’t know what you are dealing with/have the right therapist for what you need.[/quote]

Absolutely untrue. The waste of time and money is on the expensive testing that isn’t actually necessary for a diagnosis or treatment. Good therapists are absolutely able to treat without a diagnosis - and good psychologists and psychiatrists in fact are quite cognizant of the fact that the diagnostic label can be of limited value in many cases. Plus the information gained in therapy is likely much better to diagnose something like anxiety or autism than a one-day batter of cognitive tests. Many many psychiatric symptoms in kids and adults are cross-diagnostic, particularly the ones OP describes.

If OP said her kid was having learning difficulties that might be a different story but she didn’t say that. [/quote]

In our experience the people that treated our child's symptoms were not qualified to distinguish between autism, ADHD and anxiety and said so..they were the ones who referred us to get the neuropsych. [b]The evaluator spoke with them and that was helpful but the testing was important.[/b]

As far as whether there are learning difficulties, OP said her child hates school. Persistent school distress is a signal that something needs attention, and the earlier you figure out the cause, the easier it is to help your child feel better and function better[/quote]

You were [b]referred [/b] to do the testing, and you acknowledge that it was helpful for evaluator to talk with the referring specialist. You did all the right things and evaluation was helpful.

But your case is very different from going cold turkey for the neuropsychological evaluation, having them select a random set of tests, and then expecting them to figure out issues after briefly talking to parents and observing the child for 6-8 hours.[/quote]

That is fair, but while OP waits for the evaluation which is usually at least several months, even for private, they can start services. Btw we only got [b]referred [/b]because we proactively reached out to the psychologist who had completed treatment with our child to ask about next steps. Our experience was that the therapists were very hesitant to name their concerns about autism or be explicit about the need for an evaluation. The notion that it will be obvious and clear that your kid needs an eval is false. OP knows her kid better than anyone.[/quote]

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