I am curious about something. I keep reading everyone referring people to neuropsychs...BUT my husband has had 4 full blown many day neuropsychologist evaluations done over the eyars, my oldest child has had 2 my son has had 2 and I have had 2.
NOT a single one EVER put ANY diagnosis of anythinig on their evaluation. Every single one of them referred us to psychiatrists, psychdocs, and neuros to have further testing.and they never did even give a "rule in" or "rule out"
We have been to many diff facilities for these neuropsychologist evaluations, no 2 were done at the same facility, even.
I can say all our neuros seemed to think ADD, ADHD, and bipolar were "stupid" diagnosis'es in the kids....the psychiatrist thought "atypical seizures" was a strange diagnosis all around.....and the pediatrician kept missing EVERYTHING- and shrugging later after other docs did make various assorted diagnosis'es.
The sensory integration tester for my son refused to even bother with a report after she did testing on my son, becuz she felt he should be on ADD medications, so she said since he was NOT on ADD medications, she thought anything she might have for results would be useless????? The sensory integration testing on oldest difficult child was not interpreted becuz the tester felt my dtr was "too old" to be Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) tested???? (I knew better becuz we Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) test geriatrics at the nursing home)
Truth is I get more and more frustrated instead of less frustrated the more docs and professionals we consult with.
ANd only 2 docs ever really did anything concrete....our 1 neuro at one teaching hospital and a geneticist at a childrens hospital.
