I think that this is really key - getting a good experience from a private psychologist picked out of the phone book at random, is a smaller city is possible, but didn't happen in our particular case, and I would guess that our experience is typical.
Thanks Mam - I'm going to add that step to my informal rubric - the presence of gifted schools, plural, is a sure tip off that you are living in an area that will have experienced tester. To my knowledge, our whole state has 3 gifted school at the elementary school level. Admittedly, I live in a rather small state!
Grinity
