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So the neuropsychologist report said...NORMAL????
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 440117" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>MWM</p><p></p><p>I like neuropsychologist testing too. Really I do. But that doesn't make it perfect. </p><p></p><p>While trying to pinpoint Travis' issues I went through just about every specialist in the book. Seriously. Ophthalmologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, psychiatrists.......I could go on. Endless evaluations and tests by endless specialists all good at what they do. One would say one thing like Ophthalmologist said legally blind, but couldn't explain the uncorrectable double vision. One neurologist diagnosed the epilepsy was was stunned it had been missed for so many years (this was also the one who started tying things together), neuropsychologist evaluation came up with tourettes.........NOTHING ELSE. Which made no sense at all as Travis has blatant cognitive issues that you don't even have to be a professional to see, even the neuro that sent him for the evaluation was stumped by the results and said they had to be wrong to have missed so much. That neuro moved out of the area and forced me to find a new neuro. </p><p></p><p>That one was the God Send. He put it all together. He was the only one who took the time to read the boy's history from birth until the age of 14 when he saw him for the first time. He actually read all the reports and test results from every other specialist the child had seen. He did a good complete exam just to be sure. But all the info he needed was already there. It had been there, just no one put it together. The motor skills issue, sensory, vision epilepsy were all linked to the brain damage that gave him the CP diagnosis. The double vision was linked to damaged optic nerves and no it can not be corrected. The autism was genetic but made more severe due to the brain damage. </p><p></p><p>I"m not saying you have to go through all that to get your answers. I'm just saying that not all test are accurate 100 percent of the time. You have to know how to read the results correctly in addition to other information you're given to come up with the right answer.</p><p></p><p>To me? A red flag would go up simply because she was supposed to have done so well on the exam when no one else has. You said she's been tested before. Many of these test are similar. We had to be careful with Travis. A coping skill he learned to help him in school was to remember such things. (he wanted so badly to be normal) You couldn't give him the same evaluation twice because he'd remember the correct answers the second time and thus would have a false result. You couldn't even give him something similar because it would be the same thing. It didn't mean that he could do it sitting in a classroom. It's just not the same thing. The only one he wasn't able to do this with was with a simple test the vision specialist gave him. It was a maze. Due to the brain damage Travis can NOT do a maze. He can watch you do it, and still not be able to do it. He will even believe he's done it right....and won't be able to see that he hasn't even when you show him because his brain no longer works that way, or never did. </p><p></p><p>Like Janet.......I can still do most things just fine. My memory hoovers most of the time. Some things I can't keep in my head for 5 seconds, others seem to stick......there isn't really a pattern to it either. Math skills are gone, and money makes me nervous. Yet you know I graduated last summer as an honor student. No one guessed I had a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) because I didn't put myself into a position for it to be obvious. After Janet's experience I'm not so anxious to see a neuropsychologist, yet I would like to know the extent of the damage done. I had a photographic memory before the accident and a gift with numbers and a high IQ. Now? Don't get me started. And in all honesty? A neurologist would probably understand the issues I have post Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) better than any neuropsychologist. </p><p></p><p>So if you don't think the result is accurate, get a 2nd opinion. ALL docs are human. They just don't get it right for every single patient 100 percent of the time. </p><p></p><p>It may be that she just is one of those kids that doesn't "get" school. Or she may simply have test anxiety where she may know it but her brain shuts down once the test reaches her. Or she may have been evaled to the point where she has a good idea of what the correct answers should be and is giving them what they want because she thinks that's what you want her to do...... I don't know how to explain this last one better. I just know I watch Travis do it time and again......Until one of the evaluators caught on and started pulling out evaluations he had yet to be exposed to. </p><p></p><p>But if you're not satisfied with the answers, keep looking.</p><p></p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 440117, member: 84"] MWM I like neuropsychologist testing too. Really I do. But that doesn't make it perfect. While trying to pinpoint Travis' issues I went through just about every specialist in the book. Seriously. Ophthalmologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, psychiatrists.......I could go on. Endless evaluations and tests by endless specialists all good at what they do. One would say one thing like Ophthalmologist said legally blind, but couldn't explain the uncorrectable double vision. One neurologist diagnosed the epilepsy was was stunned it had been missed for so many years (this was also the one who started tying things together), neuropsychologist evaluation came up with tourettes.........NOTHING ELSE. Which made no sense at all as Travis has blatant cognitive issues that you don't even have to be a professional to see, even the neuro that sent him for the evaluation was stumped by the results and said they had to be wrong to have missed so much. That neuro moved out of the area and forced me to find a new neuro. That one was the God Send. He put it all together. He was the only one who took the time to read the boy's history from birth until the age of 14 when he saw him for the first time. He actually read all the reports and test results from every other specialist the child had seen. He did a good complete exam just to be sure. But all the info he needed was already there. It had been there, just no one put it together. The motor skills issue, sensory, vision epilepsy were all linked to the brain damage that gave him the CP diagnosis. The double vision was linked to damaged optic nerves and no it can not be corrected. The autism was genetic but made more severe due to the brain damage. I"m not saying you have to go through all that to get your answers. I'm just saying that not all test are accurate 100 percent of the time. You have to know how to read the results correctly in addition to other information you're given to come up with the right answer. To me? A red flag would go up simply because she was supposed to have done so well on the exam when no one else has. You said she's been tested before. Many of these test are similar. We had to be careful with Travis. A coping skill he learned to help him in school was to remember such things. (he wanted so badly to be normal) You couldn't give him the same evaluation twice because he'd remember the correct answers the second time and thus would have a false result. You couldn't even give him something similar because it would be the same thing. It didn't mean that he could do it sitting in a classroom. It's just not the same thing. The only one he wasn't able to do this with was with a simple test the vision specialist gave him. It was a maze. Due to the brain damage Travis can NOT do a maze. He can watch you do it, and still not be able to do it. He will even believe he's done it right....and won't be able to see that he hasn't even when you show him because his brain no longer works that way, or never did. Like Janet.......I can still do most things just fine. My memory hoovers most of the time. Some things I can't keep in my head for 5 seconds, others seem to stick......there isn't really a pattern to it either. Math skills are gone, and money makes me nervous. Yet you know I graduated last summer as an honor student. No one guessed I had a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) because I didn't put myself into a position for it to be obvious. After Janet's experience I'm not so anxious to see a neuropsychologist, yet I would like to know the extent of the damage done. I had a photographic memory before the accident and a gift with numbers and a high IQ. Now? Don't get me started. And in all honesty? A neurologist would probably understand the issues I have post Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) better than any neuropsychologist. So if you don't think the result is accurate, get a 2nd opinion. ALL docs are human. They just don't get it right for every single patient 100 percent of the time. It may be that she just is one of those kids that doesn't "get" school. Or she may simply have test anxiety where she may know it but her brain shuts down once the test reaches her. Or she may have been evaled to the point where she has a good idea of what the correct answers should be and is giving them what they want because she thinks that's what you want her to do...... I don't know how to explain this last one better. I just know I watch Travis do it time and again......Until one of the evaluators caught on and started pulling out evaluations he had yet to be exposed to. But if you're not satisfied with the answers, keep looking. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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