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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I haven't been back in this thread because I've had a lot to digest. I really appreciate everyone's perspectives!

For what it's worth, I don't really think the psychologist who did my daughter's testing was incompetent. We had a follow up conversation last week at her IEP meeting, after I read everyone's comments and talked to my friend who is a pediatrician. The psychologist  shared a lot of behavioral information about her which made sense. She was very spacey during testing and that's kind of how she has always been- spacey, and not amazing at understanding the "deeper meanings" of things. Like, when I ask her questions about a movie, she will understand the surface level details but not character motivations or predictions about what may happen next.

She isn't medicated for ADHD right now, but that is something we will be pursuing. The one thing I didn't understand fully is that she doesn't have any learning disabilities. However, the evaluator said (this is from my memory and may not be completely accurate) that her math, reading, and writing abilities are all basically evenly developed and that she is about one grade level below in all areas. She said she assessed specifically for dyslexia and that my daughter doesn't show the markers (which I agree with, as she has decent word reading, it's just understanding the meaning of lengthy paragraphs that is hard). I did ask her to share what she meant by "will always struggle" and she essentially said that it may take her longer to grasp material due to her IQ struggles and her ADHD, but that she certainly has the capacity to learn. At this point, I don't disagree with the assessment and I  don't think putting her through more testing would be helpful right now. [/quote]

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