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[quote=Anonymous]You need to evaluate so you know what you’re dealing with.  You have a couple of options.

1. Email your school’s principal for your public ES, whether or not your kid attends public and ask for an evaluation for X, Y, Z reasons that affects your kid accessing the curriculum and/or educational impact.

2.  Call KKI or Childrens and self refer for a neuropsychological evaluation (by a psychiatrist) or for an appointment with a developmental pediatrician.  You’ll probably be given dates way far away and you take both.  Inevitably there will be a cancellation sooner rather than later and you take that appointment and cancel the other.  (Just as a head's up, generally health insurance doesn't reimburse for neuropsych evaluations b/c they're considered educational vs. medical. They often will reimburse for a developmental pediatric visit.   Check with your insurance.)

An OT can be helpful if they do something like “How does your engine run,” program.  They’re not for diagnostics.

I would read, Greene- the explosive child, Kenworthy- Unstuck and On Target, and Kazdin - the Kazdin approach.

You don’t need to wait for evaluation results to do behavioral therapy or a social skills group for your kid, e.g., Ivymount Outreach in Potomac.  Kingsbury in DC.  You could also try a ST near you.  KKI has a behavioral outpatient clinic in Columbia, MD but there are other practitioners.[/quote]

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