Monday – Psychological Consultation Report
Oct. 4th, 2010 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The Problem Solving Team met at my son’s school this morning. My husband and I sat at a table surround by kind women with sympathetic eyes, plus one perky psychologist eager to read the report she’d written for the committee. She smiled a bit too much, this young psychologist. Perky is okay for waitresses and receptionists; it's hard to take in a psychologist about to deliver a devestating report about your child.
I won’t bore you with all 4 pages of her observation. As with any good piece of writing, it’s the twist at the end that gives you your shivers. Any good writer knows that you save your most powerful words for the last paragraph.
Based on the data collected for this consultation from [Sweet Pea’s] parents, his kindergarten teacher, and observations conducted in the school setting, it appears that an evaluation for special education is warranted at this time. Due to the varying behaviors that have been observed and reported, it appears that an evaluation that focuses on differential diagnosis of Autism versus an Emotional Disturbance would be the most appropriate, as [Sweet Pea] has been observed and reported to demonstrate behaviors characteristic of both Texas Education Agency (TEA) disability categories.
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The Problem Solving Team met at my son’s school this morning. My husband and I sat at a table surround by kind women with sympathetic eyes, plus one perky psychologist eager to read the report she’d written for the committee. She smiled a bit too much, this young psychologist. Perky is okay for waitresses and receptionists; it's hard to take in a psychologist about to deliver a devestating report about your child.
I won’t bore you with all 4 pages of her observation. As with any good piece of writing, it’s the twist at the end that gives you your shivers. Any good writer knows that you save your most powerful words for the last paragraph.
Based on the data collected for this consultation from [Sweet Pea’s] parents, his kindergarten teacher, and observations conducted in the school setting, it appears that an evaluation for special education is warranted at this time. Due to the varying behaviors that have been observed and reported, it appears that an evaluation that focuses on differential diagnosis of Autism versus an Emotional Disturbance would be the most appropriate, as [Sweet Pea] has been observed and reported to demonstrate behaviors characteristic of both Texas Education Agency (TEA) disability categories.
