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[quote=Anonymous]OP, do not be fearful or hesitant about getting a full neuropsych evaluation. There is nothing scary about it, and you don't need to far that your child will somehow be "labeled" just because you get her evaluated. We went to Stixrud, and they were very good and very thoughtful. (Expensive, too, but depending on your health insurance some may be covered).  It helped us understand more about how our child thinks and learns, and consequently has made it easier to figure out what she needs from us and from school.

More information is never bad. I totally get working on the anxiety, but the anxiety could be the result of some underlying attentional or learning difficulty. If you address the anxiety without trying to figure out if there is an underlying problem, you're addressing the symptom but not the cause....

Anyway, hang in there. I have also found with my kids-- both of whom are wonderful, bright, funny kids, and both of whom have some attentional issues and mild LDs -- that things go in phases. Sometimes things are really rough at school for a few months, then they settle down and everything is pretty easy and happy, then back to rough. What you are going through is tough but don't assume it will always be that way.[/quote]

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