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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 213213" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Welcome Back!</p><p> </p><p>It is a truly good thing you are doing helping your sister and your niece. It seems that your niece probably needs new evaluations. Can I ask if she is homeschooled for religious reasons, because there is a problem with the school, or for other reasons? It is OK if you don't want to say. We ahve a pretty good mix of kids here - with ALL kinds of educational choices. I homeschooled my oldest for 2 yrs, am homeschooling my middle child for the 3rd year (though we tried enrolling her this year but health issues thwarted that), and hope to NEVER homeschool my youngest - but I make those decisions up as they need to be made.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, for evaluations, many here prefer neuropsychologists - some do very very complete evaluations with up to 12 hours of testing (broken into chunks, not all in a day or two) but some seem to do about 1-2 hours of testing and it is hard to know what each will do (hard with any doctor doing evaluations, in my opinion). Others prefer evaluations done by multidisciplinary teams for thoroughness. I had a great multidisc team at our developmental pediatrician's office. I think you really really NEED to have compete and thorough testing done - and don't stop until YOU are satisfied with the answers. At teh least kids should be evaluated about every 4 or 5 years. </p><p> </p><p>I strongly DO NOT recommend depending on a school system for evaluations. It isn't in their best interest to find issues. If they find them, or know about htem, then they have to make accomodations for them, and that costs $$$. Some schools are great but have lousy speech therapy, or whatever, or have great therapy but lousy schools, or it is impossible to get anyone to do the testing for whatever. I have always had to find private evaluations to get answers that made sense.</p><p> </p><p>I DO think it is time for you to read "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene and since you live with DN to do what you can to set some structure. You may also like Love and Logic Parenting (<a href="http://www.loveandlogic.com" target="_blank">www.loveandlogic.com</a> for descriptions of all their books - some even come in audiobook format - perfect for commuting time if you commute anywhere).</p><p> </p><p>STick around for a while - others will come on with great ideas to help! Glad you came back!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 213213, member: 1233"] Welcome Back! It is a truly good thing you are doing helping your sister and your niece. It seems that your niece probably needs new evaluations. Can I ask if she is homeschooled for religious reasons, because there is a problem with the school, or for other reasons? It is OK if you don't want to say. We ahve a pretty good mix of kids here - with ALL kinds of educational choices. I homeschooled my oldest for 2 yrs, am homeschooling my middle child for the 3rd year (though we tried enrolling her this year but health issues thwarted that), and hope to NEVER homeschool my youngest - but I make those decisions up as they need to be made. Anyway, for evaluations, many here prefer neuropsychologists - some do very very complete evaluations with up to 12 hours of testing (broken into chunks, not all in a day or two) but some seem to do about 1-2 hours of testing and it is hard to know what each will do (hard with any doctor doing evaluations, in my opinion). Others prefer evaluations done by multidisciplinary teams for thoroughness. I had a great multidisc team at our developmental pediatrician's office. I think you really really NEED to have compete and thorough testing done - and don't stop until YOU are satisfied with the answers. At teh least kids should be evaluated about every 4 or 5 years. I strongly DO NOT recommend depending on a school system for evaluations. It isn't in their best interest to find issues. If they find them, or know about htem, then they have to make accomodations for them, and that costs $$$. Some schools are great but have lousy speech therapy, or whatever, or have great therapy but lousy schools, or it is impossible to get anyone to do the testing for whatever. I have always had to find private evaluations to get answers that made sense. I DO think it is time for you to read "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene and since you live with DN to do what you can to set some structure. You may also like Love and Logic Parenting ([URL="http://www.loveandlogic.com"]www.loveandlogic.com[/URL] for descriptions of all their books - some even come in audiobook format - perfect for commuting time if you commute anywhere). STick around for a while - others will come on with great ideas to help! Glad you came back! [/QUOTE]
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