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started. Welcome Dr. Karen Wilson back to the Autism-A-D podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's great to see you again.

Yes, you are becoming a regular, which I love.

I like that, too.

I know.

You're really fun to talk to you.

So I do appreciate you coming on and talking about this important topic today.

But before that, I'm going to introduce

you to everyone, those of you who are new to Dr. Wilson. So Dr. Karen Wilson is a clinical

neuropsychologist, director of West L.A. Neuropsychology, and the founder of Child Nexus,

a digital platform that connects parents whose children struggle

with learning or social emotional issues with professionals who provide psychological

and educational support services. Dr. Wilson is also the host of the diverse thinking,

different learning podcast, which I highly suggest you listen to. So, and I'll make sure to have the links all in the show

notes so they can get right to all of your wonderful resources. So today we're going to talk

about the difference between a school evaluation and a private evaluation. So Karen, why you first start about the differences

between the two as far as the purpose? Because they do have different purposes.

They really do. I mean, when we think about both of those types of assessments, the difference really lies in, sometimes it lies in the scope and how comprehensive it is, but the purpose of those assessments is very different.

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