My son is 10 years old. He has an Asperger's diagnosis and General Anxiety Disorder that was given by a pediatric neurologist and a psychiatrist. He was given that diagnosis two years ago. We have had other doctors (therapists and other psychiatrists) say different diagnosis such as Adhd, bipolar, and odd. I finally decided to beg for the neuropsychologist evaluation for my son after reading about it and being told to have it done on here. I took him in for his yearly check-up with his pediatrician and explained the situation and why I wanted a neuropsychologist evaluation. We had only seen that pediatrician one other time. We are a military family and we have lived here for about a year so we don't have a long history with this pediatrician. When I told her that I want a neuropsychologist evaluation, she kinda looked at me like I had three heads. She first offered to put in a referral for another therapist instead of neuropsychologist and when I explained to her that we have seen countless therapists, psychiatric doctors, a pediatric neurologist and a developmental pediatrician, all with different answers for my sons problems, she decided to go ahead and put in the referral so we could find out what's really going on. She told me there would be a 3-6 month wait. She told me I could call the referral department periodically and check on the status of the referral.
That was almost a month ago. A couple of days ago I decided to call the referral department and see where we are on the list and they told me that the pediatricians office didn't fill out the paperwork correctly and it was sent back to the pediatrician on the same day that they received it. The problem was that they didn't fill out any "symptoms or diagnosis" in regards to why the evaluation was needed so the referral department sent it back. So I call the pediatrician office and they call me back today and ask me, again, "why are you wanting this type of evaluation done"? The whole thing is making me feel like they have never put in for something like this for a child before. And now we are back on the bottom of the list to boot. SO... if you read all that, Thank You!!
My question is, what happens once the neuropsychologist evaluation is completed? Will it test for every kind of mental health problem? I'm just needing some reassurance that I'm doing the right thing!!
That was almost a month ago. A couple of days ago I decided to call the referral department and see where we are on the list and they told me that the pediatricians office didn't fill out the paperwork correctly and it was sent back to the pediatrician on the same day that they received it. The problem was that they didn't fill out any "symptoms or diagnosis" in regards to why the evaluation was needed so the referral department sent it back. So I call the pediatrician office and they call me back today and ask me, again, "why are you wanting this type of evaluation done"? The whole thing is making me feel like they have never put in for something like this for a child before. And now we are back on the bottom of the list to boot. SO... if you read all that, Thank You!!
My question is, what happens once the neuropsychologist evaluation is completed? Will it test for every kind of mental health problem? I'm just needing some reassurance that I'm doing the right thing!!