polarbear - I've hemmed and hawed about the neuropsych testing for a while now. I think you may be absolutely right about us trying to piece together an answer by doing all these different evals and assessments. I just can't wrap my head around spending all that money and then what if we don't get any answers.
We've done IQ testing (KABC-II), achievement testing (KTEA), a couple forms of reading/writing assessments (TOWRE-2, GORT), ADD/ADHD scales plus the TOVA and the BASC, Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV), and the school's STAR, MAP, DIBELS, etc. What more will a neuropsych give us?
The other issue I think I'm having is every single hospital, etc. that I contacted to ask about neuropsych testing acted like I was crazy wanting to get information when my child hasn't had any head trauma or injury. When I tried to explain what we were wanting the testing for I got put on hold while they checked to see if they would even do that. It was like they had never heard of someone getting a neuropsych eval for anything other than "medical necessity". I heard that phrase repeatedly! So I'd ask if they could recommend some place else to try and I got the same response from each place. I told them I understood that my insurance would probably not pay since it wasn't a medical necessity, but I still wanted some information about what their testing involved and how much it would cost us out of pocket. I tried to assure them that it has been done before and that it was my understanding that this is probably exactly what we need to tease out anything that we have missed so far. It was very frustrating!!!!
