Neuro-Psyche Evals ?

[ALLISA]

Have any of you done neuro psyche evals on your kids ? I am not even sure if I am saying / terming this correctly.

I know a few kids in our district go regularly after the age of five & Eirn's teacher has brought it up a couple of times. Her advice is....that if done by the correct doctor, there can be a lot of positives, but if not done and the report is used to base IEP's on, etc.....it can be a mess.

Just looking for any input.
Allisa

[momofrussell]

Well, I don't know what that term means from a testing standpoint. No one as ever used that term for testing with Russell. I most states and/or districts schools will do an eval by the time the child is 5 or 6 to get a "school age diagnosis". Is this the same thing you are talking about? It is done through our school districts here. Russell didn't have his until he was 6. It is a manditory thing done here. And they do use it to know where a child "is" and what little boxes to mark on the IEP... i.e. MR, Vision Impaired, Autistic... ect... I don't know if anyone has taken their child to a doc instead of having the schools do it. I know that here, even if you get some doctor DX or eval, the schools STILL eval your child. There are alot of times the medical community and school communities don't mesh with DX's either. Russell has a medical DX of Autism by our Ped Neuro but not a school age DX of Autism. (SORE spot with me LOL). Is this what this gal might be talking about? I really don't care who or what evals are done for Russell, just so he gets what he needs.

I don't know if that helped or not. LOL

A.