I agree compmom that meeting with a lawyer and charting a course can’t hurt a bit. I did manage to locate a clinician who understands 2E kids (seems well-regarded) and who has agreed to review the evaluation report that I have and comment on it–giving me insight in to what he thinks is going on. Of course he can’t change or create a new diagnosis unless he evaluates DD himself, but I’m really only looking for feed back and to see if he thinks we missed any testing, what he thinks her issues are, and for advice on how to proceed. From what he says, I can then regroup and decide if we think we should bring what we have to an advocate or lawyer as compmom says, just to get an idea on what will or won’t fly in my state in terms of any kind of accommodation based on the current report which obviously does not contain a firm diagnosis. Of course the recommendation may be to have her re-assessed at some time in the future by a different clinician with more of an expertise in 2E. In any event, I am working on figuring out what she needs today, tomorrow, and the next day, etc. in terms of tweaks that she could use to make things better–like trying to get her the audio books and such, for example. As was said up thread, diagnosis or not, she needs to work with her strengths and learn to manage her weaknesses. We may never know exactly what her true diagnosis is, but at least now we know that it is an issue that she needs to manage going forward. And I am taking the wealth of information here with me to help get her to where she needs/wants to be.