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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School psych here! If we get a referral now, we are expected to complete it before the end of the school year. Referrals received after June2 go to summer team. I currently have 14 kids to finish testing, so your son would be number 15. I will assess all area of suspected disability but if I have extra time and am curious about something that I saw in the scores , I will give additional tests or do additional observations or interviews. However, it’s not really possible to do that if the referral is received so late. Testing a child in May is hard because they usually have to miss fun activities in their classroom.. Also, one of my favorite tests to assess  surface dyslexia, test of orthographic competence, can’t be given until a child is 7, and intelligence isn’t considered “stable” until age 7 so scores are never as valid when I evaluate younger students. I tell parents all of this and they frequently don’t trust me and think that I am trying to gate keep their child’s right for an IEP- but sometimes they do trust me, and I always evaluate their child the following year and frankly, do a better job because the law is one thing and the actuality of what is possible during the last 23 days of schools when I have fourteen other kids to test…is another. Parents, I recommend referring your child early, and not waiting until late April/ May. [/quote]

So there are certain tests for dyslexia that require a child to be 7? [/quote]

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