In this country, we have a heavy emphasis on diagnosis, as opposed to just assessment and evaluation. Counsellors and psychotherapists are able to assess. If we brought in that ability....
Guidance counsellors are also a part of the CCPA system. Perhaps if we can broaden that, then we won't have to wait for one psychologist per school board to make it to all the different schools. I think that would be one way of getting early diagnoses earlier on.
Clients call me looking for help for their children who have ADHD. For me, it's whether they need actual special input in the school and special parameters put around their learning and their learning difficulties so that they can achieve or is it that they just want to work on some of the psychotherapeutic things and need the counselling aspect. They can't see me for the diagnosis, but they can see me for the betterment and for the mental health care.