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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You require a highly trained and educated professional to provide services for you. I agree these services should be covered by insurance, but that’s the real issue here, not how much they are charging.  As a previous poster pointed out, these services are often provided by highly educated, underpaid, overburdened and burned out women. 
Also, keep in mind when someone does an assessment for your child, it takes literally hours to write a report. [/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

Ditto.[/quote]

Neuro-psych assessments are 5-7 thousand sometimes more. You are telling me even after over-head this person is underpaid?[/quote]

A good neuropsych assessment involves meetings with the parents before and after, plus usually 2 or 3 sessions of 4-6 hours with the kids.  Plus time communicating with teachers, reading background info, scoring tests, interpreting tests, writing a report.  It’s easily 30 hours of staff time. On top of that there is the overhead of renting an office with a receptionist, insurance, the tests themselves which have consumable components that need to be purchased for each child.

Yes, I think $5-7K is reasonable.

What do you do for a living? [/quote]

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