differential diagnosis

Help! I believe my child has a learning disability of some sort but I have no idea who to see for a diagnosis. The school has NOT been helpful and feels that because my son does well on standardized tests he doesn’t have any problems. However, he is failing all academic classes and he’s being labeled as “lazy” and “uncaring”. He is very bright but is unable to show his teachers that he knows the information in the way they want to see it. (For example, in geometry, he will provide the correct answer by doing the work in his head but because he hasn’t shown the 6 steps of the problem he gets zero credit.)

We live in the San Diego, California area. Does anyone know of a center or individual psychologist who specializes in evaluation and diagnosis???

Nancy3

What you probably want is a complete neuro-psychological evaluation. Start by calling your medical insurance company to ask about this. More and more are covering neuro-psych evals, although some will require you to pay if no diagnosis is forthcoming.

You may also want to call around to children’s hospitals in your areas. Some have teams that do neuro-psych evals. They could probably tell you whether your insurance is likely to cover it or not also.

Another possibility is a university medical center.

Nancy

Re: differential diagnosis

Here is the first people I would call, on Monday morning.
Get a referral to a PsyD who does testing. <br>

Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
t: 858.534.3000
f: 858.534.7190

Undergraduate Student Services Office
1533 Mandler Hall
t: 858.534.3001
f: 858.534.2324
Email: [email protected]

Directions

The Psychology Department is housed in McGill Hall and Mandler Hall, which are buildings #246 and #245 respectively, in John Muir College on the central UCSD campus.

The main departmental offices are on the fifth floor of McGill Hall.

The Crick Conference Room, where many of our talks and presentations are held, is on the third floor of the neighboring Mandler Hall.

Directions to the UCSD campus

Directions to McGill Hall & Mandler Hall

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[quote=”wonenbergrl”]Help! I believe my child has a learning disability of some sort but I have no idea who to see for a diagnosis. The school has NOT been helpful and feels that because my son does well on standardized tests he doesn’t have any problems. However, he is failing all academic classes and he’s being labeled as “lazy” and “uncaring”. He is very bright but is unable to show his teachers that he knows the information in the way they want to see it. (For example, in geometry, he will provide the correct answer by doing the work in his head but because he hasn’t shown the 6 steps of the problem he gets zero credit.)

We live in the San Diego, California area. Does anyone know of a center or individual psychologist who specializes in evaluation and diagnosis???[/quote]