Hi,
I just found this forum and am wondering if anyone can recommend the type of testing my daughter needs. My health insurance does not cover this testing, and I am a single parent so I need to get answers as cost-effectively as possible.
My daughter is 13. She has always been sensitive, but it has increased markedly as she gets older. She is very abusive and controlling to both her (much) younger sister and me. Lots of name calling, hitting her younger sister, very easily frustrated, constantly upset/lying/sneaking/throwing things/slamming doors, highly belligerent and entitled, very anxious with many different tics through the years, grades are high As and then drop to because (the amount of time and how motivated she is at the particular time seem to direct how she performs academically), difficulty maintaining friendships, constant ailments when she has to do things (even things she supposedly wants to do like play on sports teams), etc. The family therapist we have been seeing believes she has ODD and ADHD. A teacher just wrote to me today about her grades and the teacher's feedback does seem to point to ADHD, if not something else.
I am in the process of having my younger daughter tested, who does clearly have dyslexia and ADHD. My younger daughter's testing seems to be straightforward educational testing. I have found a psychologist who can do this testing. He is as cost-effective as I will find, and I have called around to several university clinics.
For my older daughter, I'm wondering what is the best use of my financial resources. While I found a psychologist to do the testing for my younger daughter, I'm wondering if my older daughter's problems - given they have been going on for 5 years with no sign of abating - go beyond standard educational testing and she needs neuropsychologist testing. If so, I'm assuming that I need to find a neuropsychologist to do that, and I wonder what questions I should ask to find the right person as well as what tests she should take in order to fully evaluate her issues and determine what, if anything, can be done.
Thank you.
I just found this forum and am wondering if anyone can recommend the type of testing my daughter needs. My health insurance does not cover this testing, and I am a single parent so I need to get answers as cost-effectively as possible.
My daughter is 13. She has always been sensitive, but it has increased markedly as she gets older. She is very abusive and controlling to both her (much) younger sister and me. Lots of name calling, hitting her younger sister, very easily frustrated, constantly upset/lying/sneaking/throwing things/slamming doors, highly belligerent and entitled, very anxious with many different tics through the years, grades are high As and then drop to because (the amount of time and how motivated she is at the particular time seem to direct how she performs academically), difficulty maintaining friendships, constant ailments when she has to do things (even things she supposedly wants to do like play on sports teams), etc. The family therapist we have been seeing believes she has ODD and ADHD. A teacher just wrote to me today about her grades and the teacher's feedback does seem to point to ADHD, if not something else.
I am in the process of having my younger daughter tested, who does clearly have dyslexia and ADHD. My younger daughter's testing seems to be straightforward educational testing. I have found a psychologist who can do this testing. He is as cost-effective as I will find, and I have called around to several university clinics.
For my older daughter, I'm wondering what is the best use of my financial resources. While I found a psychologist to do the testing for my younger daughter, I'm wondering if my older daughter's problems - given they have been going on for 5 years with no sign of abating - go beyond standard educational testing and she needs neuropsychologist testing. If so, I'm assuming that I need to find a neuropsychologist to do that, and I wonder what questions I should ask to find the right person as well as what tests she should take in order to fully evaluate her issues and determine what, if anything, can be done.
Thank you.