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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hm, maybe I should take my kid to a medium sized city where relatives live and get her evaluated in the summer for less $.  I can't swing these prices.[/quote]

Wish I could do that. A friend had her testing done in Tucson last summer while staying with family - $1200 there vs. the $4k her dr wanted here. Ugh. [/quote]

But you can't get the doctor to come to the school to explain the results if the testing is done in Tucson.

While having a good tester who writes a through report is helpful.  Having the doctor come to the school to explain the results to the IEP team and advocate for your child is priceless...  at least that's how we feel about Dr. Black and what he did for our DS.[/quote]

But it is highly unusual for the psychologist to come to the IEP meeting. The reports are supposed to be accessible to lay people-they shouldn't have to be explained. Also, many families can barely afford the 3k for the testing, let alone $400/hour for the psychologist to come to the meeting. [/quote]

The reports are accessible if people bother to read them but having the doctor explain the results at the IEP meeting insured that everyone was on the same page.  We used Dr. Black for our three year IEP reevaluation and renewal.  Our school would have done a psychoeducational evaluation at no cost to us but we wanted Dr. Black for a neuropsych which turned out to be a good choice since he found some issues that previous evaluations missed like ADHD and problems with written expression.  Our school gave us all his recommendations in the IEP.

Dr. Black will also testify in court for due process hearings so it's not a stretch to get him to attend IEP meetings.  We normally use an education consultant, Rich Weinfeld, to attend IEP meetings so it was actually cheaper to use Dr. Black since we got the neuropsych eval for pretty much the same cost.

At our school, the psychologist who does the psyched eval for the school usually attends the IEP meeting to explain the results too.[/quote]

Black told me on the phone that he does not attend IEP meetings due to scheduling difficulties.[/quote]

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