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I believe that if you pick and choose your therapist well, you can use
them for diagnostics and not necessarily continue to see them. There
have to be a few therapists out there who are willing to do that.

BTW - When she was in school, they did a full round IEP testing on my
younger daughter. It showed exactly what I knew it would but the
principle of the school said, and I quote, "We don't like that particular
test, so we are going to ignore the results of that one." We started
homeschooling within 6 months and did not ignore the results of that
test. She is a visual learner with a problem processing verbal
information. Knowing that helped me to know which things she would like
to do and which she would probably not - and that was very important for
me to know because she is the one who would go along with anything just
because it is her personality.

Bridget
Nollaig Shona -- S�och�in ar domhan,
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no
one to blame.
- Erica Jong


> I'm glad I ask you because I want to diffuse this misunderstanding
> immediately! I do *not* believe there is a proper age to be reading.
> My concern with dd is that she *wants* to read but struggles, etc.
> I am *not* forcing her to see a therapist but I question the wise
> women on this list about the wisdom of doing this or not. I want to
> know what others think. Personally, I prefer to steer clear of
> therapists because I didn't find them to be very helpful for my
> personal situation a long time ago.
> With regard of pushing to learn basics.... again, I don't know
> what's right to do or *not* do. I wonder if kids need that basic
> knowledge of adding & subtracting & reading to be *able* to do all
> the other glorious things their little hearts lead them to! I don't
> KNOW!!! I did teach the basics with one child but not with the
> other, as stated earlier. The one that is unhappy is the one not
> taught.
> I believe this list has enough room to be open for discussion of
> variations on how to get to a comfortable level of unschooling and
> problems, ideas and support surrounding these issues.
> Sarah
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