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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We test students at my school after what seems like a long time of no or little to no progress. Most of them don’t have a disability. They just have a lower than average IQ which explains the slow progress. Somebody has to be on the left of the bell curve. [/quote]

[b]If those kids were privately tested almost all of them would come away with a diagnosis. If you give enough tests something will come out high and something will be low. When you pay 3 to 5 thousand dollars, you get a diagnosis. [/b]A psychologist in private practice has a vested interest in diagnosing something because if they are conservative and say the kid is working up to his potential and there is no LD, the parents would get mad and not refer others and/or give out bad reviews. My sister-in- law is a psychologist in another state working in a city with plenty of families willing and able to pay for testing. I asked her if she ever tested and found nothing - no diagnosis whatsoever and she said no.[/quote]

This exactly. At a minimum the kid will be labeled adhd-inattentive. [/quote]

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