It's a private psychology clinic (they also provide educational services) and we did request the eval. in order to get recommendations for school.
This was recommended by our (Canadian public) school, even though he does have a DCD diagnosis. They told us they need something from a psychologist to access AT.
The psych we met with seemed to brush aside the DCD diagnosis - told us they don't deal with gross motor. She did do the Beery with him but it didn't show a problem. (As far as I can recall, Visual-Motor Integration was ~30th percentile, Visual Perception 90th percentile, Motor Coordination~30th percentile). Perhaps the VT has brought up his scores since we had the OT eval. last year.
Just as a preliminary finding she was tending towards an ADHD diagnosis. As far as I can tell this was based purely on Connor questionnaire results (ours and teacher's), and her interaction with him over a few hours.
Perhaps it doesn't matter which diagnosis they put so long as he gets the accommodations. However, DH is concerned there may be stigma attached to an ADHD diagnosis.
