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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again - he does get speech in school and the therapist is concerned that some of these issues are appearing now and not in earlier grades and she thinks he is not mastering some basic things now....I think he may not always process the questions that she's asking if that makes sense...the school keeps saying how concerned they are and it worries me...we are seeing the neurologist again in October but I'm not seeing anything worrisome anywhere else.[/quote]

[b]It sounds like you need a full neuropsych and psychoeducational eval. There's more going on here. At 9 I'm assuming he's in 3/4th grade which is when SOLs start, so it's pretty critical you get this nailed down as soon as you can. He likely needs more/different support than what is currently in his IEP. However, as I said (I was the first comment on this thread), even with an IEP, he will likely always struggle. Temper your expectations for what an IEP can do and what a child with learning disabilities or communication disorders can achieve. If you can realign your paradigm for what he is capable of doing and achieving, his successes will actually feel like successes- not failures to reach the goals his typical peers are capable of reaching. [/quote][/b]

I agree with this PP.  If the public school is concerned but their interventions are not working, perhaps they haven't fully identified his disability (or disabilities) and therefore he is not receiving the right services or all the services he needs.  Without a full understanding of what the problem is, your son will keep hitting a brick wall.

I would recommend an evaluation at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore just because they have an ability to work as a team to do a full evaluation - Educational, Neuropsyc, Speech, Neurologist, etc.- all under the same roof and sharing the same files.  They can let you know prior to testing if your health insurance will cover the testing. [/quote]

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