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Old Jan 26, 2017, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight View Post
H and I have a potentially 2-hour meeting at 2 with my daughter's school psychologist as part of their assessment to see if they should put autism on her IEP along with developmental delay (language). She was diagnosed on the autism spectrum privately a few years ago (she's 5 now--6 in a few months!-and in Kindergarten), but the school doesn't have that in their file. She can keep getting services through developmental delay till she's 8, but I'm really curious as to how they'll assess her. She's pretty high-functioning (though considerably behind in language), and I'm nearly positive there's ADHD in the mix, too. So they're doing testing of her in little 15-minute spurts throughout the next few months.

Just a bit nervous about the interview because last time I saw the school psych was at her IEP meeting earlier this month, the morning after I'd found out MC's wife had died, and I had a panic attack and started crying in the middle of the meeting and had to step out for a few minutes. So hopefully, this one will go better...

On the plus side, as H pointed out, she's a psychologist, so she knows about things like anxiety and panic attacks...(he'd explained to her and the others what was going on--well, not in detail--while I was in the bathroom).


Interesting that if she has an official dx on ASD even from an outside therapist that the school has to do their own testing, to add that to her IEP. My son's dx were all made by a psychologist in my T's practice that he works with, with an official letter of diagnosis with recommendations for the classroom. So, when I was going to send him to public school (we ended up not going there) all they needed was that letter and they had an IEP meeting based on that and my recommendations. I hope it all works out for you and her!!
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Thanks for this!
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