OP of the other thread
Neuropsychologist created shorter version of student test per a request from my ex-husband. It’s being used for private school admissions, and the new test edits out history, diagnoses, several tests. I’m not okay with this.
When I asked, the doctor writes:
“I created a standard school with the academic and cognitive functioning without the other scales.”
IS THIS STANDARD PRACTICE? Is there such thing as a standard school report that edits out diagnoses and almost everything else?
I think it's fairly common that a child neuropsychologist can create a "school report" upon request. I would assume it's meant to provide the minimally necessary info to the school that still achieves the stated goal. It doesn't mean there's not a full report that could be provided to the school but, in my experience with psychoeducational reports (for a practicum site), it's intended to protect the child's/family's privacy as much as possible. Obviously, if you're hoping for accommodations, omitting diagnoses is against the stated goal, but if the child has a diagnosis of a disease that would be unrelated to their academics, it would be intended to protect that from people who wouldn't need to know that info.
There should still be a full report available to the parents (which could then be provided to the school if they really wanted to).
Thank you. The goal of my ex-husband is to bury our son’s dx, history, and presentations so that he gets into a mainstream school. I don’t think this is wise but since the scaled down report was already sent to admissions officers, without my ability to weight in, is hard to now send the full report. I’m sure it would sink the application…what school wants to work with such messed up parents. Thank you for letting me know that a “school report” not uncommon. I really questioned how ethical is was.