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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

Stop hiding the ball.  How old is your kid and what kind of &quot;therapist&quot; screened him/her.  You can't do a quick screen for ASD or ADHD.  You can do checklists that might point to concerns but that's not definitive.  Talk to your health insurance and find out what is covered.  If money is truly an issue, NIH has clinical trials all the time.  The screenings are free if your kid qualifies.

You're &quot;skeptical&quot; but you haven't done any of the heavy lifting.  You've sought out a therapist of some kind for some reason.  Your pediatrician cannot diagnose ASD or ADHD.  If those are your concerns, you need to bite the bullet.[/quote]

[b]+1 You can ask your public school for an evaluation.  It will be a psychoeducational evaluation but it will not cost you anything and if it highlights any issues you can schedule your child for a private neuropsych at your cost or ask for an independent educational evaluation which the school system will pay for.[/b]

But if the teacher is raising concerns, it'll be well worth it to investigate whether your child needs help instead of dismissing the teacher's concerns because you don't think there is a problem.  Obviously, your child is having &quot;problems&quot; at school.

How old is your kid?[/quote]

[b]Not necessarily.  The evaluation is only as good as the psychologist.  Two kids in same school YEARS apart evaluated by two different psychologists, one came out brilliant but with &quot;slow processing speed&quot; the other came out dumb as a rock with a &quot;specific learning disability&quot; in math.  We knew about the LD, but did not agree re intelligence.[/b]

For the second kid, we were very upset, and our ped recommended a full neuropsych evaluation at KK - we also got on their waitlist, and they did an amazing job.  While child does have visual motor problems which are causing a &quot;specific learning disability in math&quot; which is so specific they did not identify it?  The kid has math issues, but her other scores were no longer &quot;average, average, average&quot; but rather &gt;99.9th percentile and they clocked her in 2nd grade reading (and comprehending) at a 5th grade level.  THIS was the child we knew.  So be careful if you let the school do an initial IQ test.  They also picked up on how her fine motor delays (the school gives her OT 2x a week) affect performance scores on IQ tests, which were on the WISC (which they could not redo - couldn't redo any of the tests the school had done) &quot;below average&quot;, which the school psychologist did not.  Terrible Terrible Terrible report and Terrible testing.

KK did focus a lot on her fidgeting and potential ADHD (I guess it is in vogue) but our survey and the teacher survey did not confirm it so they had to drop it.  Anyway, I would do private neuropsych testing if your insurance will pay for it and if your kid is old enough so that makes sense before letting the school have access to test your child or the results............. we expected sort of stratosphere and below zero results, we did not expect average average average which can be 39th% or 89th% and sentences like with such a score, child should be able to master.....

As opposed to, a score in the 99th percentile shows that this is one of child's strong points, and she can use it to compensate for........... Completely different scores, completely different tones, completely different results..........[/quote]

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