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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A neuropsych won’t get you the information you want. I would start with therapy (for you as a parent to handle difficult behaviors) and go from there. [/quote]

What? OP I’d ignore this comment because it is baseless. You can spend a lot of time and money on therapy and not really get anywhere. If you don’t know what you are dealing with/have the right therapist for what you need.[/quote]

Absolutely untrue. The waste of time and money is on the expensive testing that isn’t actually necessary for a diagnosis or treatment. Good therapists are absolutely able to treat without a diagnosis - and good psychologists and psychiatrists in fact are quite cognizant of the fact that the diagnostic label can be of limited value in many cases. Plus the information gained in therapy is likely much better to diagnose something like anxiety or autism than a one-day batter of cognitive tests. Many many psychiatric symptoms in kids and adults are cross-diagnostic, particularly the ones OP describes.

If OP said her kid was having learning difficulties that might be a different story but she didn’t say that. [/quote]

OP someone had a bad neuropsych experience and has an axe to grind. They do much more than test for learning disabilities.

I’m a different poster and we spent more than a year with a good therapist thinking we were treating in anxiety when in fact, it was anxiety and ADHD only hyperactive/impulsive which is somewhat rare, and a processing speed issue that was masked. It manifested in ways that are not typical of what most of the people think of for ADHD and our child is gifted so we had no academic issues. I am telling you it’s not always straightforward. Therapy does very little for ADHD and we needed a different course of action, a.k.a. meds. if your child is complex or you think many things can be a play, do yourself a favor and bite the bullet and get a nueropysch or at least other educational testing outside of a school testing so you know what you are dealing with.

I know more stories of people fumbling around with therapy and other things like OT, etc. only to eventually get to the point where they did a neuropsych and change their entire treatment plan based upon it. For some it was DBT, specialized tutoring, and for several, it therapy in combination with meds. (We happen to have a lot of family and friends with kids who have all sorts of combinations of dyslexia, ADHD, and anxiety.)
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Nobody needs a “full neuropsych” to diagnose ADHD - in fact there is no cognitive test that diagnoses ADHD. You’re just wrong about this. [/quote]

Oh, this is completely wrong. The processing speed and working memory portions of the WISC and WAIS are used as part of the battery of ADHD assessments. And there are other assessments included in many neuropsych batteries relevant to the diagnosis of ADHD, including the TOMAL and TOVA. [/quote]

Thank you!!! ADHD can be really different depending on the kid. We have two and unfortunately with our first it was complicated and other things at play. Second was more straightforward w/ symptoms and we did not do a neuropsych. [/quote]

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