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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I think our teen is taking it in stride as we await the full results.

It's bio mom who continues to ignore emails from the doctor, disregard the diagnosis, not advocate for him at the tutoring center etc. She even stated she was struggling with it and acused us of manipulating the doctor to get the results we were looking for. We told her she is welcomed and encouraged to get a second opinion. This is technically the 2nd set of testing the child has done. One was educational only, the other psychoeducational. Both tests indicate major issues with processing and inability to complete timed assessments.

I just can't imagine living in denial and denying your child help. This has been many years in the making due to her denial. It started heavily in middle school (covid) and she blew off our concerns that he was below average on state testing and blamed it on covid. In 9th grade we really became involved with grades when it was clear he was struggling, she did nothing, we found drop in tutors. 10th grade we put an action plan together but she refused to follow it and we had to make concessions, spent 10k for tutoring on a program that isn't geared to address underlying issues and refused the psychoeducational testing we advocated for to the school. She has 50% of the time so progress is slow when it's only occuring in one household. Now that the child is old enough to have self awareness we've been able to make more progress. He's almost finished the expensive tutoring program, and he's made small improvements- but again it's not designed to work for students with processing disorders that need a different type of help, so we weren't expecting much.

Next steps are to engage with the Dr. who completed the assessment and follow his recommendations. We're going to encourage the child to live with us full time if she doesn't agree to the full plan the doctor suggests. He's a junior and has very little time left before college to get set up with what he needs.

She is honestly more concerned about her new family and doing things with her other child and is so inconvenienced by getting her older child help. It's nauseating. [/quote]

With kids that old it is mainly up to them. Not parents.

If this is an attempt for full custody talk to a lawyer, but after age 14 that is also up to the child, mental disorders or not.

I’d focus on trying to get the kid to graduate and into the best matched trade program or community college you can. [/quote]

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