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Dee0522
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Psychological evaluation
What exactly does this entail? Our ongoing service coordinator has recommended that DS gets a psych eval and I don't really know what to expect. What kinds of questions will they ask and what kinds of activities will they have my DS do? He is 2.5.
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Posted 3/7/13 10:45 AM  |
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nov04libride
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Re: Psychological evaluation
My son got one around the same age. Many questions will be for you--how much does he do independently (eat w/ fork, spoon, open cup, dress himself, potty trained, etc), relating w/ others, etc.
The part where DS was involved was only a half hour or so--identifying pictures, doing puzzles, following directions (feed the baby doll a bottle, etc).
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| Posted 3/7/13 6:19 PM |
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Dee0522
And then there were four...
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Re: Psychological evaluation
Thanks for your response. I guess I'm just a little confused as to what they will be looking for, or what it would mean. For example, if he can't properly use a fork or he identifies something incorrectly, what would that mean? Would they recommend therapy? Sorry, just kinda thinking out loud!
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| Posted 3/8/13 3:08 PM |
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A3CM
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Psychological evaluation
a psych is usually done to look for autism.
my DS was much younger when he got his Psych, so i am not sure what is done with a 2.5 year old.
a lot is questions answered by you, and testing through play
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| Posted 3/8/13 6:17 PM |
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nov04libride
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Re: Psychological evaluation
Posted by Dee0522
Thanks for your response. I guess I'm just a little confused as to what they will be looking for, or what it would mean. For example, if he can't properly use a fork or he identifies something incorrectly, what would that mean? Would they recommend therapy? Sorry, just kinda thinking out loud!
My son only qualified for speech, but I think they needed to rule out autism, which they did with the psych eval. It's not an IQ test at that age (and IQ isn't valid at that young an age), though there was some comparison to peers in terms of the day to day tasks.
I kind of got the sense that they were looking more at how he interacted during the eval.--I don't think he fed the baby doll the bottle when asked, but I don't know that it mattered, KWIM? He made eye contact w/ the evaluator, smiled, was congenial, etc.
Message edited 3/8/2013 9:02:15 PM.
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