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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 469337"><p>To maybe hold them off a little, put a request in writing for "a full evaluation for Special Education services including academic, psychological, Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations". Send it Registered mail with Return Receipt Requested as soon as possible (like yesterday). Just this simple step could hold them off because legally, they have to do the assessments (or put in writing to you WHY they can't) in s certain timeframe and they can't do that if he isn't there.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, you might want to look into further diagostics from a neuropsychologist for a more accurate diagnosis. An ODD diagnosis, to some schools (like mine), means they play even harder ball. To me, ODD is a catch-all from docs that really means "there is something wrong but I don't know what it is and I don't have time to figure it out so I'll just call it this". In our situation, that diagnosis made everything 1000% worse when it came to the school. In our case, it was a definite MISdiagnosis and trying to get the school to change their mindset was impossible and ended up hurting difficult child 1 int he end.</p><p></p><p>Good luck and {{{(((HUGS)))}}}}</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 469337"] To maybe hold them off a little, put a request in writing for "a full evaluation for Special Education services including academic, psychological, Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations". Send it Registered mail with Return Receipt Requested as soon as possible (like yesterday). Just this simple step could hold them off because legally, they have to do the assessments (or put in writing to you WHY they can't) in s certain timeframe and they can't do that if he isn't there. At the same time, you might want to look into further diagostics from a neuropsychologist for a more accurate diagnosis. An ODD diagnosis, to some schools (like mine), means they play even harder ball. To me, ODD is a catch-all from docs that really means "there is something wrong but I don't know what it is and I don't have time to figure it out so I'll just call it this". In our situation, that diagnosis made everything 1000% worse when it came to the school. In our case, it was a definite MISdiagnosis and trying to get the school to change their mindset was impossible and ended up hurting difficult child 1 int he end. Good luck and {{{(((HUGS)))}}}} [/QUOTE]
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