We did a neuropsych eval this summer for DS, getting the results tomorrow. We were fortunate to find a psychologist who took our insurance, so that helped make the decision for us.
Two main reasons we went private rather than using school eval. First, in our school an LD is not considered to be "real" unless the child is performing a year or two behind academically. Our DS is above grade level in everything despite the LD I suspect he has, so I'm not even sure they would have evaluated him even if we had asked. Second, there was a point a couple of years ago that I had very little trust in the school. That has changed and we are in a much better place now in 4th grade than we were in 1st, but one thing about the private testing is that WE control the information, not them, and that was really important to me.
