Tomorrow Ryan is going in for neuropsychological testing at the big world renown children’s hospital. It is going to be a full day of testing that starts at 8 am and goes until 4 or 5pm. Basically, we are going to find out how Ryan learns and hopefully get some definitive answers on his learning disabilities and what exactly they are besides ADHD. Tomorrow is just all the testing but my husband and I will return to learn the results without Ryan in about a month. It is going to be a long open ended day.
I am not hopeful because you all know where that gets me. I am cautiously optimistic about the info we might find out about Ryan and how he learns. Really, I am just looking at tomorrow and how we are going to get through the day. The hospital has a serious food court so I am going to take him to eat lunch there. I made an appointment, while he is being tested, to complete the medical assistance paperwork for the boys. Other than that I am going to be sitting with my technology in a waiting room.
Fun stuff gang. Send me interesting articles to read, will ya?
February 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Gonna be a loooooong day. You’ll get through it, though, ad so will Ryan. Just hope you get some answers, direction, and guidance!!
February 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Gonna be a loooooong day. But you’ll get through it, and so will Ryan. Just hope you get some answers, direction, and guidance!
February 19, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Wow, they do it all in one day? When we had Liam tested it was split up over 3 sessions. Even then he was spinning in the chairs and had ZERO focus on anything the tester was trying to do… she did say that he was the most “busy” kid she had ever tested. Ha! I think he overwhelmed her!
Good luck tomorrow and I hope it gets you one step closer to solutions,
February 19, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Wow, that is a long day. The last time my daughter had a psychoeducational workup (at the age of 19) they split it over 3 sessions so that fatigue didn’t skew the results. But she’s never had a neurospsych eval. Maybe it is different.
Anyway, the tests results are hard to understand, even for seasoned parents. Wrightslaw has some guidance.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/test.index.htm
In the next few comments I’ll be adding more (one resource per comment).
February 19, 2013 at 5:48 pm
This is a chapter out of a book called “Understanding the Assessment Process). As you can see, it’s a pdf. I have an older version, which I printed out each time I had to get a handle on an IEE.
http://www.cls.utk.edu/pdf/keys_ld/chapter2_pa.pdf
February 19, 2013 at 5:50 pm
This one is a “demystifying for parents” white paper from a PhD-level psychologist, on the tests commonly given and the scores. Another one to download and save.
http://www.robynwaxmanphd.com/documents/Understanding%20the%20Evaluation%20In-Depth.pdf