Reply to PSA on neuropsychs

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "PSA on neuropsychs"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neuropsych evals can be very helpful in the situations you described, but there is also a tendency on this board for people to recommend neuropsych evaluation as a first step when there are other options that may be faster, cheaper, and effective. For example, if a parent suspects their child may have mild to moderate anxiety or ADHD, an intake appointment with a child psychologist or psychiatrist may be fully effective in diagnosing, treating, and getting school accommodations.

[/quote]

+1. Plus the school testing can be very good - ours had basically identical results to the tests the neuropsychologist did. [/quote]

That's so great! Isn't available to everyone. School districts do not have an obligation to evaluate every child. Educational impacts may not be apparent until the child is older.

Feel free to share your experiences with neuropsychs and their alternatives but please stop derailing every thread from someone who is NOT starting from square 1 and stop spreading misinformation that will confuse people who are asking for help. Neuropsychs CAN help with diagnosis, especially where the picture is mixed or unclear. Neuropsychological testing CAN help the psychologist differentiate between different underlying issues. Not not every neuropsych is successful in doing so. Feel free to share providers you recommend against that failed to.acvhieve what you expected them to achieve.[/quote]

If your kid is so mildly affected they don’t even need an IEP then I guess you’re having a totally different conversation. And if neuropsych testing were free we wouldn’t be here.

Also you absolutely don’t have a lock on correct information. It’s not confusing to give people information about different types of intervention and testing. [/quote]

The person who is hating on neuropsych evals (I think it’s you) keeps insisting there are downsides besides cost, but then it always comes back to cost.

Cost is a very real consideration, and these evaluations are not cheap. But there are few other downsides perhaps inconvenience or not really enjoying the test. [/quote]

I am not PP, but you are 100% wrong with your statement that, other than cost, there is never any downside to doing neuropsych evaluation. 
If you are the person who made this claim, then you should know that your insistence on this statement spurred a chain reaction of negative comments.

I cannot speak for other posters who argued with you, but, personally I am not against neuropsych evaluations. [b]However, from my own experience I can confidently state that they can be a wrong choice and not just because of the cost. [/b]

In the previous thread I have suggested that people should share what made their evaluation successful in order to help others. Our evaluation would have gone better if I had more info beforehand. I have a couple of categories that we could use as a starting point if you are genuinely interested in helping others. Making broad statements how there can never be a downside is wrong.

Also, would you mind sharing whether you are a parent, a provider, or both?[/quote]

Interesting that you state this so definitively without giving any reasons why.  How is one to decide whether it is the right or wrong choice for them without any additional guidance?[/quote]

I state this definitely, as it is my personal experience. I have also recommended creating tips for parents how to prepare based on where things went wrong for us, so that other people don’t make the same mistake. This is very different then starling people to just do it because there is no downside other than the cost (several people claim that on both recent threads) or to entirely avoid because there is no benefit (I am not that poster btw).

I am copy-pasting my post from my previous thread in terms of suggestions I think would have made difference in our case. If you or anyone else is really trying to be helpful (many posters are already), then focus on expanding the list below in terms of additional details that you can share. In a perfect world, evaluators would have a list like this one and share it with parents ahead of evaluation . Maybe we were just unlucky, but we went in with none of the below:

- 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,

Additional suggestions from other posters:
- choosing an evaluator who is the best fit for the issues your child seems to be having (I am not sure that most people can do this, because those of us who have complicated cases cannot possibly know who would be the right person - anyone who can shed light on this please chime in)
- not doing it as a first step - poster who recommended this, can you elaborate and add what you mean? Do you mean go to pediatrician first hot something along those lines?

~ PP_X

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics