For this type of testing, you can see a neurologist first, but I'd see a neuropsychologist rather than just a Neurologist or just a regular Psychologist. And if he is starting to slide in school, it is likely a learning disability issue, which is a neuropsychologist issue, not a Psychiatric one. Neurologists are way different in how they test kids than NeuroPsychs. Neurologists look for concrete stuff, like epilepsy that shows up. NeuroPsychs do intensive evaluation tests that can take up to twelve hours, and tend to find the problem areas and are pretty good at nailing the causes.Agree that NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD), Aspergers, and other high forms of Autistic Spectrum don't often show up until the kids are older. They look like other things when the kids are younger, and many professionals don't know how to spot it or assume it's a psychiatric problem or just plain ADHD. These kids have average to superior IQ's, but don't seem to "get it" and have clueless social skills. They may be friendly, but they don't "get" social cues and often really annoy their peers and have no friends. Another clues is obsessing, especially over computer and videogames, not the normal kid way, but to the exclusion of wanting to do much else. My son thinks about videogames even when he's playing soccer...lol. And he'd rather not play it, but he's good at it and we need to force him out of the house :smile: Good luck.
