Diagnosis (was Re: emotionally disturbed label)

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No offense taken, I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same

thing

So my issue is that my ds has not had neuro testing done. My DH will not allow

it. He is not under the care of any psychologist or psychiatrist. I am OK with

his DX as it fits well. And he is not showing any co-morbid symptoms, except for

some oppositional behavior I am keeping an eye on. He never did go through the

'terrible 2's' so I'm hoping it's just that showing up in his 3's. If anything

changes, I will start pushing DH, and eventually just schedule it and take him

in for testing myself, like I've had to do everything else myself.

Thanks

TJ

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> > > > > I am going to add my 2 cents to this discusstion.

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> > > > > I think that it is really important to make the distiction between

diagnosing a medical/neurological condition and identifing a catagory of

disablility for the purposes of special ed or support services.

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> > > > > No one at the school including a school psychologist can diagnose a

child with anything. They can only evaluate children to see if they meet the

definition of a disablity according to the IDEA law.

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> > > > Are you sure about that? My son has only been definitely dx'ed by the

psych at school. His regular ped said 'maybe yes, go see the dev. psych'. Dev

pysch. said 'maybe yes, go see the school for an eval'. School pysch. said

'definitely yes, welcome aboard...'. So that is the only source of his dx.

> > > > TJ

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