Anonymous wrote:"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their presents at different times in different ways."

If this is true, then why is there even an AAP program? The child with the 100 IQ is gifted, so let's have them in class with the kid with the 140 IQ. No? Okay then. Carry on.

Actually, I believe the schools should meet every child where they are - i.e., help them explore and develop their gifts no matter what level they're at. Oh wait, that would be tracking....Someone might get their feelings hurt and file a lawsuit.

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their presents at different times in different ways."

If this is true, then why is there even an AAP program? The child with the 100 IQ is gifted, so let's have them in class with the kid with the 140 IQ. No? Okay then. Carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your child's way into AAP.

+1.

If submitting an IQ is allowed and I'm willing to pay for the test, how is that buying my child's way into AAP? FCPS should be paying for a WISC for every second grader, but I realize it's not financially feasible. My DS struggled with reading at grade level in first grade. He just couldn't make it all connect. The school didn't see it as a problem because in his large Title I school there are many children with much greater academic challenges. We hired a tutor and he's now reading well above grade level. Are you suggesting I bought his way into 2nd grade because I was willing to pay for what his base school couldn't or wouldn't provide?

It sucks for the children whose parents won't or can't pay for outside testing. But if outside testing will demonstrate that AAP is the appropriate learning environment for my DS, hell yeah, I'll pay for it. And if I have to take PB&J sandwiches to work for lunch every day to save the money, I'll do that too.

Stop telling other people that what you've decided is right for your kid should be good enough for their kid. Or if you're an AAP parent, stop acting like your child is too special to associate with kids whose parents did a little extra to show the committee the whole child.

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their presents at different times in different ways."

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your child's way into AAP.

+1.

Stop buying your child's way into AAP.

Anonymous wrote:Diana Dahlgren tested my child as well. DC definitely clicked with her, she got good work out of him. Test results were a little lower than I expected (ok, I had no grounds to expect anything, this was wishful thinking on my part) but we got some very useful information on what took down the score and what are DC's strong sides. After the test, a lot of things started making sense to me that I previously did not understand.

This was exactly our experience as well.

Is there a benefit of going to one of these Psychologists over GMU? I was planning on scheduling the WISC IV for my son. Would I be better scheduling it with one of these recommended Psychologists? Does it matter? Thanks in advance for your replies!

Diana Dahlgren tested my child as well. DC definitely clicked with her, she got good work out of him. Test results were a little lower than I expected (ok, I had no grounds to expect anything, this was wishful thinking on my part) but we got some very useful information on what took down the score and what are DC's strong sides. After the test, a lot of things started making sense to me that I previously did not understand.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.

What was the issue with her? Personality? Test results?

Sounds like it was test results. Lots of parents who get their kids tested privately for WISC expect to get high scores and are unhappy when they do. That's why FCPS has looked at requiring all people to go to the same test center -- ie. George Mason and banned certain psychologists. There is too much score shopping by pushy parents.

Are there really psychologists that are banned? I didn't see any mention of that in the informational handbook.

"In September of 2013, the AAP office met with representatives of the Northern Virginia Association of Clinical Psychologists (NVACP) to discuss options for ensuring integrity of external test results."

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/GMUStudyRecommendations.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.

What was the issue with her? Personality? Test results?

Did not seem like that she connects with kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.

What was the issue with her? Personality? Test results?

Sounds like it was test results. Lots of parents who get their kids tested privately for WISC expect to get high scores and are unhappy when they do. That's why FCPS has looked at requiring all people to go to the same test center -- ie. George Mason and banned certain psychologists. There is too much score shopping by pushy parents.

Are there really psychologists that are banned? I didn't see any mention of that in the informational handbook.

^^I meant people are unhappy when they DO NOT get the high scores they wanted from private psychologists. I've no personal experience having a kid tested by Dr. Dahlgren, who for some reason seems to be the only psychologist ever named on these threads, but I do know that FCPS administrators think highly of her and she has been around the program for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.

What was the issue with her? Personality? Test results?

Sounds like it was test results. Lots of parents who get their kids tested privately for WISC expect to get high scores and are unhappy when they do. That's why FCPS has looked at requiring all people to go to the same test center -- ie. George Mason and banned certain psychologists. There is too much score shopping by pushy parents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.

What was the issue with her? Personality? Test results?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a horrible experience with Diana Dahlgren. Go to someone else. Don't waste your money.

Same experience here.

Same Here.