Our family consultant has been in touch with Ds's teacher (with our permission!) and they have shared a lot of information to try to figure out some ways to help DS get over his paralyzing fear of timed tests. She was open to the suggestions of the family consultant as an "expert" but not open to mine... despite us saying the nearly exact same things!

Meetings, online conferences and tons of other resources are at our disposal. I really appreciate that it is not pushy in any way, it's just there if you want/need it.

I also know of others who have been put in direct contact with national experts that they would have had to wait months to get a consultation with. Sometimes just "who you know" is the most important!