ADD/ADHD is not diagnosed in schools, ever. that's a medical diagnosis. they may say things like they suspect ADD/ADHD and tell you to go get your child evaluated by a doctor. but the school psychologist can't manage/prescribe the meds, so... just no. and then of course it really baffles me because then sometimes the school districts will fight me on things like an autism diagnosis, which is ... also a medical diagnosis. then there are the schools that apparently send kids to me to get a psychoeducational evaluation for dyslexia or a learning disability and I'm just like... umm, that's your job, I can't do that evaluation...
the school evaluations have to be requested by the parent, yes. but getting them to actually do them can be a painful process. and then even the psychoeducational testing they can do is very limited -- limited resources, limited time, and sometimes the test(s) that's picked may not show the deficits the child has. actual psychoedcuational evaluation takes days and days and days, spread out over weeks, is exhaustive, and is not cheap.
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Date: 2021-02-25 06:12 am (UTC)ADD/ADHD is not diagnosed in schools, ever. that's a medical diagnosis. they may say things like they suspect ADD/ADHD and tell you to go get your child evaluated by a doctor. but the school psychologist can't manage/prescribe the meds, so... just no.
and then of course it really baffles me because then sometimes the school districts will fight me on things like an autism diagnosis, which is ... also a medical diagnosis.
then there are the schools that apparently send kids to me to get a psychoeducational evaluation for dyslexia or a learning disability and I'm just like... umm, that's your job, I can't do that evaluation...
the school evaluations have to be requested by the parent, yes. but getting them to actually do them can be a painful process. and then even the psychoeducational testing they can do is very limited -- limited resources, limited time, and sometimes the test(s) that's picked may not show the deficits the child has. actual psychoedcuational evaluation takes days and days and days, spread out over weeks, is exhaustive, and is not cheap.