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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 5383" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Hello and welcome!</p><p></p><p>You are entitled to ask the SD for an evlaution of what is going on at home because it will negatively impact your child's education soon if it isn't already. However, if you can avoid doing that, I would.</p><p></p><p>If you have a relationship with a child psychologist, then you can get an evaluation started without involving the school. If you later want to give the information to the school, you can use it as an IE (independent evaluation.)</p><p></p><p>Many people here feel that a child such as yours with multiple problems should be evaluated at a major medical center with a good children's psychiatric unit or a pediatirc neurologist if no large hospital is available. I tend to agree with this position but since you have a relationship already, I would begin with the child psychiatric and then ask if a more comprehensive evaluation is needed (which seems likely if you are concerned about Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE)--and your child is adopted but you have no medical Hx on the birth family.) Lack of such information tends to raise the index of suspicion when problems emerge and make the stakes higher as well because you do not know what might be in your child's birth family gene pool.</p><p></p><p>Could you please post a bit more information in your signature--such as the ages of your children and which one of the four you are writing about. It helps us keep people straight.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 5383, member: 284"] Hello and welcome! You are entitled to ask the SD for an evlaution of what is going on at home because it will negatively impact your child's education soon if it isn't already. However, if you can avoid doing that, I would. If you have a relationship with a child psychologist, then you can get an evaluation started without involving the school. If you later want to give the information to the school, you can use it as an IE (independent evaluation.) Many people here feel that a child such as yours with multiple problems should be evaluated at a major medical center with a good children's psychiatric unit or a pediatirc neurologist if no large hospital is available. I tend to agree with this position but since you have a relationship already, I would begin with the child psychiatric and then ask if a more comprehensive evaluation is needed (which seems likely if you are concerned about Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE)--and your child is adopted but you have no medical Hx on the birth family.) Lack of such information tends to raise the index of suspicion when problems emerge and make the stakes higher as well because you do not know what might be in your child's birth family gene pool. Could you please post a bit more information in your signature--such as the ages of your children and which one of the four you are writing about. It helps us keep people straight. Martie [/QUOTE]
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