Melissa Neff

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1,584 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2017 last heard Dec 2022

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 164: Dr. Melissa Neff on Diagnosing and Treating Adults Newly Identified as Differently Wired · 29 Jun 2019 podcast

And I like to think of assessment as kind of putting pieces of a puzzle together.

Each piece, you know, the interview, the observations that I make during testing, the test results, um,

prior information that comes from other professionals or previous testing.

I'm putting all of that together to sort of build a snapshot of who this person is at this point in time, strengths and weaknesses, and how to best help this person.

And so I think probably the most important part of the assessment, in my opinion, is

going through the results afterwards and making sure that people really understand what the tests mean.

So you're not just handing them a long piece of paper with all these percentiles and labels that are clinical.

Most people aren't familiar with those things and really explaining what does it mean when you're on the autism spectrum?

What is bipolar disorder?

And kind of going through those things and really having them walk out feeling like, okay, I know what's going on with my kid.

I know the next steps.

Now I have this referral to the following, you know, a therapist, an occupational therapist, a speech therapist.

I know what to do in school.

Here's some ideas for parenting.

So that's kind of the process.

And then I kind of send them out into the world, hopefully to other people who can help carry out those goals that we define in the assessment.

is wired.

Oh my goodness, this is something that I want to share because it's been so fascinating to me.

When people come in for the feedback session with me, I bring out my giant whiteboard and I draw a standard curve and I kind of explain what's average and where people fall.

And as I'm kind of plotting, you know, because I have visual learners and I have auditory learners, and so I'm trying to explain it in multiple ways.

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