Getting Assessment
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Getting Assessment
I live in Ireland.I was told that there were no Occupational Therapists here who would test. Does anyone know anything different?
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I don't know much about things over there but have you tried asking your GP to refer you to a Clinical Psychologist or a Neurologist for assessment? I was diagnosed by the former in London. An assessment does not necessarily need to be carried out by an OT, if there are none in Ireland who will/can test then either a Psychologist or a Neurologist should be able to diagnose. Good luck!
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Willis-Ekbom Disease - Dx November 2011
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I don't know how things are run over there but I'm assuming Ireland have a simple system to ours. Try this site:
http://www.dyspraxiaireland.com/
It might be able to help. Going to see your GP might be the best idea though.
http://www.dyspraxiaireland.com/
It might be able to help. Going to see your GP might be the best idea though.
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yeh, well, it seems it depends so much on the gp. good luck with yours
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No links to this forum on there sadly.Remus wrote:I don't know how things are run over there but I'm assuming Ireland have a simple system to ours. Try this site:
http://www.dyspraxiaireland.com/
It might be able to help. Going to see your GP might be the best idea though.
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I tried the Dyspraxia association of Ireland and they haven't answered me so going through the GP might be a better option but would like to have some idea of what would be invloved first. Does anyone have any idea how the Neurologist and Clinical Psychologist would do to test for Dyspraxia? I'd like to have some idea of what kind of tests would be invloved before I talk to the GP. It would be for college so I'd need to speak to them too to see if they'd accept a diagnosis from them rather than an OTLdyalb wrote:I don't know much about things over there but have you tried asking your GP to refer you to a Clinical Psychologist or a Neurologist for assessment? I was diagnosed by the former in London. An assessment does not necessarily need to be carried out by an OT, if there are none in Ireland who will/can test then either a Psychologist or a Neurologist should be able to diagnose. Good luck!