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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I posted at 17:31 and I am highly sympathetic to you. But I would say that it's most helpful to your son if you keep an open mind. 
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OP here.   I am trying on the open mind, rant notwithstanding.  But after we completed our expensive neuropsych test at a well known psychiatrist in Silver Spring, the test gave us little practical information.  The testing psychiatrist then said, if I diagnose your kid as ADHD, even though he doesn't really seem to be really, but fits the diluted new DCM standard, your insurance company will reimburse you for the test.  So the doctor wrote that into eval and now we hear from the school constant veiled pressure to try meds.   It is appalling.  The ethical implications are troubling not,least that we acquiesced to this at the time.  But it definitely undermined our confidence in,the system.[/quote]

OP, it doesn't sound like you need a therapist.  If you have your ticket punched as it were from a formal assessment and the school is willing to give you the accommodation you need, who cares if they pressure you to medicate.  Yes, unethical.  Ignore them.  Finding an independent therapist isn't going to change any response you get from the school and really is just to make you feel better.

Look at the big picture:  does your kid needs help?  Has he learned executive skills (and this doesn't mean secretarial) to meet academic challenges of school?  If not, he simply may need a tutor.  Stop focusing on trying to prove a point that in the end doesn't matter and look at what [b]skills[/b] your kid needs.[/quote]

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