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Anonymous wrote:No! I wish I could do one on my neurotypical kids. Such wonderful insights into what makes them tick, their strengths and weaknesses. So helpful.

Why can’t you get one? I’m planning to get them for my NT kids.

I guess we technically can but at $5k, I never seriously considered it.

I think for me yes it was hard. We did one for my daughter in 4th grade after being bullied into it by our private. Quite frankly the school was asking a lot in our grade to get tested. Our grade it turns out, was heavily affected by COVID. They were quite behind due to being masked up at a young age and as well looking at their teacher masked up, therefore not seeing the words and sounds formed or even hearing properly with face covering. Writing was difficult also with teacher hurrying them along. The writing process was not taught well. Some parents had their kids tested and others did not. One came out with dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalcula and fled to public. Our daughter was deemed mildly dyslexic with slower processing. We too fled to a charter due to teachers not willing to work with our child without a diagnosis, and curriculum challenges with a horrible math teacher who decided she preferred the children who didn’t require a bit “extra” (despite only 15 kids in class)because nobody wished to remediate they wanted to keep going full steam without acknowledging Covid deficits. Bringing you up to present in a public charter with our daughter having an IEP and accommodations. We have had to fight for a particular teacher to understand dyslexia because our dyslexia teacher is too timid to intervene with the “teacher’s classroom methods.Test scores not improving after full year. We hired an advocate who was great at our last ARD meeting…..but we now regret leaving our smaller private who may have decided to work with us better than present school with all the “supports” because they’re a public!

We did it with high hopes and paid over 5K. Evaluator barely had any explanation for the issues we came in for, and provided suggestions that made no sense at all. It felt like they made up their mind even before seeing DC, then just kept trying to justify their opinion. Very strange experience.

I had one done on myself and I’m NT. It was helpful to know what I could do to improve.

Anonymous wrote:No! I wish I could do one on my neurotypical kids. Such wonderful insights into what makes them tick, their strengths and weaknesses. So helpful.

Why can’t you get one? I’m planning to get them for my NT kids.

Neuropsych typically is short for neuropsychological evaluation. You can also get a different use of evaluation from a psychiatrist that won't look as much at the educational pieces I think.

We did a neurodevelopmental (same as a neuropsych but not with all the tests because many of the tests are not valid for kids under 6 or 7 I think) evaluation for our kid. No regrets. It was what was recommended to us to accurately learn if our child had autism. We haven't followed all of the recommendations in it and some have not been needed but the ones we did follow have been so useful. And just having the diagnosis has been really helpful. Not financially, but for getting a 504 plan at school from an early age and for understanding our child and her strengths and how her brain works.

What recommendations do you have a place to do the evaluation?