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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I think your experience at GMU is less predictable because the students are still learning.  I think rapport and the test giving process matter and can be inconsistent with the various students at GMU.  We went there and I wish we hadn't.  It was not about AAP since kid got in but about LD flags that they glossed over.[/quote]

Rapport can be inconsistent with anyone. There is no guarantee that a child would have rapport with a psychologist in private practice either. If anything, kids many times have better rapport with younger adults than older. The grad students giving the tests are about the same age as many of the elementary school teachers my kids have had.

The graduate students are learning the test giving process, but they get a lot of experience there and they are supervised by a PhD. We had an excellent experience there and would use their services again if we had the need. 
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But with a private psychologist, you know who it is when you book.  It is random at GMU.  The "supervision" is not during the test.  It's just evaluating the results, so whatever is going on in that little room is just between the child and the tester, not the actual licensed psychologist.  I think it would be fine and you know that going in.  But it's odd that you don;t really get much of a discount (maybe $50) considering that you don't know who the tester is and they are not licensed.[/quote]

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