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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Psychologists have a vested interest in finding a learning disability  after a parent has paid thousands of dollars. Almost everyone who has had 10 plus hours of testing will come up with a pattern of strengths and weakness. Test enough and some subtest(s) will be low.  Creative, crafty psychologists can write up a report in a way that the recommendation is often extra time. No parent wants to hear that their kid is a B/C student who is working up to their ability or is not willing to put in the hours required to get an A in an AP class.  Studies have shown that many kids run out of time on the SAT and do better when given extra time. I am not talking about a kid who scores 500 in Math. Extra time won't probably help much. I am talking about going from a 650 in Math to a 750, which makes a big difference in college admissions. 
I hated working as a school psychologist in an affluent area because I received so many requests from parents to assess their B student who was in honors/AP classes. The parents got outside testing and students who didn't have any history of struggling or having attention problems in elementary or middle school ended up with accommodations and a diagnosis of ADHD and/or LD. [/quote]

This sounds pretty uninformed.  You do know that highly intelligent people van mask LD's for a long time, right?  Even dyslexia can be masked and compensated for for many years, particularly in large classes where teaches don't really get to know them.  Also, many gifted girls with ADD inattentive type are diagnosed late because they aren't disruptive.[/quote]

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