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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A neuropsych won’t get you the information you want. I would start with therapy (for you as a parent to handle difficult behaviors) and go from there. [/quote]

What? OP I’d ignore this comment because it is baseless. You can spend a lot of time and money on therapy and not really get anywhere. If you don’t know what you are dealing with/have the right therapist for what you need.[/quote]

Absolutely untrue. The waste of time and money is on the expensive testing that isn’t actually necessary for a diagnosis or treatment. Good therapists are absolutely able to treat without a diagnosis - and good psychologists and psychiatrists in fact are quite cognizant of the fact that the diagnostic label can be of limited value in many cases. Plus the information gained in therapy is likely much better to diagnose something like anxiety or autism than a one-day batter of cognitive tests. Many many psychiatric symptoms in kids and adults are cross-diagnostic, particularly the ones OP describes.

If OP said her kid was having learning difficulties that might be a different story but she didn’t say that. [/quote]

Anxiety, autism, and ADHD all have common symptoms. A neuropsych helps rule out one or more and figure out which are at issue. [/quote]

This did not happen in our case. [/quote]

^ I meant, yes, anxiety, autism and ADHD all have common symptoms, but neuropsych did not help identify which one is an issue.[/quote]

I'm sure that must have been frustrating. This definitely happens. Unfortunately not all neuropsychs are the same and that is why it is important to get recommendations and know what the concerns are so you go to someone who is qualified to diagnose/rule out the issue. While we didn't use her, Dr. Donna Henderson was one of the evaluators suggested for us, and I've listened to a few interviews with her. One of the things she says is that even in the high-priced practice where she worked there were evaluators who "didn't do autism". That's insane, that they would agree to evaluate a child and simply not be qualified to assess whether or not they had a condition that affects 1 in 30 kids.[/quote]

I am the PP you responded to. Thank you for your reply. I think it would be super helpful if more people shared the type of information that you just posted. I know that our own lack of knowledge how to prepare for the testing and how to choose a provider played a role.

I don’t want to start a new thread, but I think the underlying question that most parents would benefit from is: what helped you get good results from your neuropsychological evaluation?

To me at seems: 
- having reports from other therapists, 
- have a written detailed parental feedback for the evaluator before they do the evaluation 
- looping in with your school and teachers, so they can work together with you, and,
- what you seem to be saying, choosing an evaluator who is the best fit for the issues your child seems to be having.

But, I’ve learned the above hard way, [b]after[/b] paying thousands for an evaluation that was not helpful at all. Shouldn’t evaluators explain the best way to prepare before they take your money and conduct the testing, so they can provide the most appropriate support?[/quote]

It's an awful, awful system. Your experience doesn't surprise me. Unfortunately some professionals don't know what they don't know.[/quote]

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