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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about Kennedy Krieger?[/quote]

Haven't used her but Dr. Alison Mostow at KKI was recommended to us.[/quote]

She is a clinical psychologist, not Neurodevelopmental one. We had a 3 hr evaluation with her for a child of 5 and she explained the difference between her eval and full neuropsych.  I found the results of testing informative and she was very attentive, but the report disappointed me a bit. It was basically a  very careful record of everything we said at parents' intake, some stuff from other specialist reports we submitted and then test results. In terms of recommendations she endorsed everything we were already doing (truth be told, we are doing a lot), so I didn't come away with a sense of fine-tuned direction or understanding what we should do more of or less of.

An important note for those who need to lean on heavily on neuropsych results in IEP process - the KKI recommendations were phrased as "may benefit from", we asked to revise to a more persuasive language and got "xyz is recommended". This may depend on individual child's profile, but nothing in the report said "required" which is strange to me. My child is broadly at age expectation academically for K, but has AuDHD, dev. delay, general emotional immaturity and elevated anxiety scores. So with this report if we were doing K at public school, getting any service minutes would not be a given with this type of report.   We did have a good parent feedback session and discussed all questions that we raised.

I have no issues with test results and am glad I was able to get my child tested by a reputable specialist at a place that takes our insurance, but I felt like for the next neuropsych whenever it happens to be, I will go with a different practice, privately. Also, KKI doesn't do 2 versions of report like some private practices do. [/quote]

“may benefit from” is more professionally accurate than “requires.” [/quote]

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