As in previous posts, DD11's new psych. explained that DD felt a bit on the spectrum. Her social skills are a bit rough as I have posted over the last 2 years. DD is also miserable in school (although I have heard some positive lately - hallelujah!). DD has always been a puzzle to us for a variety of reasons. Anyway, we approached a psych. who works with kids and is a parent to a PG kid, and he was happy to assess DD. On the other hand DD's psych. said she recommends a social skills group for DD, and she feels that there isn't reason to assess DD - she then mentioned something about "labeling", and she stated that DD did so much better this session with her social skills. Well, the testing psych. stated he would do all testing for free (he and my husband work for the same org).
My thoughts are all over the place. Feel free to post your own.
One of my thoughts - what do I want from testing? Answer- Someone to tell me what is going on in that child's head. Why is she like that? How can we parent her better?
