Reply to Seeking educational psychologist who specializes in boys and their learning differences

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Seeking educational psychologist who specializes in boys and their learning differences"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I am 10:42.  Given several of your posts, I wonder if what you really need is a good educational advocate and not an educational psychologist?  It sounds like you already have an assessment/diagnosis that the school is willing to accept.  As I think you said upthread, the educational psychologists are not really positioned to give very specific recommendations about instructional approaches nor about IEP goals (although you are at private so "IEP" per se doesn't apply).

We used a very good educational advocate -- Rich Weinfeld at the Weinfeld Group.  As founder of the group, he also has various professionals who can help -- a teacher who can look at goals, various ed or neuropsychs, etc.  He himself was a teacher and founded the gifted program in MCPS.  He is considered an expert in GT/2E issues.  I believe his own son had problems in school as well.

Rich could help you figure out if you need more data for your school, attend meetings with you to suggest instructional approaches, recommend tutors if necessary, or help you evaluate if another school would be a better fit.

It sounds to me like you need to put a good "general contractor" on your job site/kid problem -- one who can help you coordinate all the sub-contractors and interface with the school.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics