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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 309478" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>If you really can't afford a neuropsychologist, there can be other pathways. </p><p></p><p>You already have speech pathology reports (I presume?). Gather them together, especially the earliest ones. Get together other reports, especially from behaviour assessments etc. Any psychologist reports. Then hunt around for a pediatrician who has a reputation for working with kids with ADHD and/or autism. If the pediatrician is also broader in experience, so much the better. Take along all reports. We actually have all these reports scanned into our computer, so we can email them as pdf files, or simply print them out. Taking originals risks losing them (or losing a page here or there) while you wait for the office secretary to copy them. better to always have back-up copies.</p><p></p><p>Also take along with you any stuff you yourself may have done on the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) questionnaire on <a href="http://www.childbrain.com" target="_blank">www.childbrain.com</a>. Even if they tested as normal. It's a useful questionnaire even if it's not officially diagnostic. It can still be used by a health professional to indicate your own recollection of the degree of these problems at the time you did the test yourself.</p><p></p><p>Armed with all of this, it could help with some more specific answers. And who knows? There could be some way later on that makes a neuropsychologist assessment possible.</p><p></p><p>But you can get things done in part, from various agencies, bit by bit over time. The art is in putting it all together.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 309478, member: 1991"] If you really can't afford a neuropsychologist, there can be other pathways. You already have speech pathology reports (I presume?). Gather them together, especially the earliest ones. Get together other reports, especially from behaviour assessments etc. Any psychologist reports. Then hunt around for a pediatrician who has a reputation for working with kids with ADHD and/or autism. If the pediatrician is also broader in experience, so much the better. Take along all reports. We actually have all these reports scanned into our computer, so we can email them as pdf files, or simply print them out. Taking originals risks losing them (or losing a page here or there) while you wait for the office secretary to copy them. better to always have back-up copies. Also take along with you any stuff you yourself may have done on the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) questionnaire on [url]www.childbrain.com[/url]. Even if they tested as normal. It's a useful questionnaire even if it's not officially diagnostic. It can still be used by a health professional to indicate your own recollection of the degree of these problems at the time you did the test yourself. Armed with all of this, it could help with some more specific answers. And who knows? There could be some way later on that makes a neuropsychologist assessment possible. But you can get things done in part, from various agencies, bit by bit over time. The art is in putting it all together. Marg [/QUOTE]
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