Morrissey-Compton Educational Center

I am writing to strongly recommend Morrissey-​Compton Educational Center’s social skills class. My first grader had been struggling with social interactions for some time. Last year, his school recommended that I find a social skills class for him. They recommended Morrissey-​Compton.
To be honest, I was dubious. How could a class help him learn social skills? I was also suspicious of organizations serving Silicon Valley kids, in terms of being truly supportive of kids, and their families. Additionally, the cost of the class was quite high for our family’s budget. However, after one semester of this class, I am a believer.
First, Morrissey-​Compton is a lovely organization, whose mission truly is about supporting kids and their families. They are non-​profit, and their non-​fancy office indicates that situation. Still, they offered our family financial aid, which made the class accessible. Additionally, their staff is fantastic, and of the highest caliber possible.
Secondly, the class itself was tremendous. At first, my son was skeptical about the class, too. Soon, though, he began to look forward to it, as the class time was spent in positive ways, with lots of age appropriate skill building games, and laughter. Every day, following the class time, the parents/​grown ups would then get a run down of what they worked on during class. The kids also got homework each week to help support them in building social and emotional skills.
Thirdly, the teachers are amazing. Teacher Barb has been a first grade teacher for years, and is incredible with helping the kids learn to solve problems. Teacher Sue is a parent educator, and is awesome with the kids, as well as the parents. I am grateful to both of these educators for their support of my child and me. I also really appreciated hearing about the results that they saw in my child with a personal meeting following the class. They have helped our family tremendously.
In the end, my child is still learning, but his social skills are improving, and I give a lot of credit to this class. As I said in the beginning, I highly recommend this class and I am truly grateful for their support, as it has been so helpful for my son.
The only caveat that I offer about the class is that it is only offered twice a year (Fall/​Spring), which was not clear when I first contacted Morrissey-​Compton.

Summary: the testing and report I got were good, but the pricing seems way out of line
Details:
I went there for a day of testing, that was 1H of intro, 4H of testing, and 1H to get the results.
I’m not an expert, but looks to me that part of the report I got could have been auto generated via computer after plugging in my scores, and then edited by the person who did the report, plus some personal observations. There is nothing wrong with that, but I’m just assuming it didn’t take many hours to write. That said, it took more than 6 weeks to get the report, which seems a bit ridiculous.
What was the total? $ 2475 last year.
This year, because it wasn’t expensive enough, it’s now over $ 2700. As a result, I declined.
My insurance company told me that Morissey-Compton’s prices are way over the customary rates for the insurance codes (as in by a factor of 2.5 to 3x).
But just to make things worse, the billing report they did for my insurance company was done badly so that my insurance company could only pay me back for 1 out of the 4 hours of testing. It took many calls/​Emails and days to finally get a billing statement I could use to get badly re-​imbursed (less than a 3^rd or what I paid).
My recommendation is to look at other locations, ask for pricing, and compare.

I wanted to like Morrissey-​Compton. They came highly recommended, and they seemed to really know what they’re doing. So we paid several thousand dollars and went through hours of testing. It took several months to get our results back. Once we got the results, we contacted them via email and phone to learn more, but they were completely unavailable. Despite promises to the contrary that they’d be long-​term partners to assist us with the school, we cannot get them on the phone or have them reply to emails. It turns out that the recommendations were completely generic. In retrospect, we could have gotten the same services for free through the public school, and they probably would have been more responsive. Not a good experience. While the info we received from them was good, we wished that we hadn’t invested so much time and money.

overall not very happy, it took 2 months from the testing date to get a full report.
I was asked to pay upfront 2,500 $, never got a receipt for it and still asking to get one
It turns out my insurance would cover some of it. After a diagnosis of ADHD, we were told to contact our pediatrician to get meds. No resources given to us as to how to takle the issues we are facing.
I am looking for outside help now.

Karen Dearing and Brooke Cargile provided comprehensive evaluation for our school-​age child a year ago. They have been professional, supportive and knowledgable in supporting our family throughout the past 12 months. Brooke in particular has gone out of her way to assist our family by attending school meetings and providing guidance for remediation and accommodations. She continues to be available to answer questions and address concerns when they arise. Her dedication and passion to supporting families with children who struggle is evident. Our family is extremely grateful to Morrissey-​Compton. We highly recommend Morrissey-​Compton.

Strongly recommend Morrissey/​Compton. Specifically we worked with Brooke Cargile initially 4 years ago. She has been available and provided critical help and advice since an initial consultation to the present for further assistance and has provided urgent help with accommodation requests in school and with College Board application. Ms. Cargile has provided our child and family with expertise and incredible support. We are grateful to Morrissey/​Compton.

Morrissey/​Compton is an AMAZING rare gem in the educational testing world. They are a very professional office with a kind and caring staff. We found them a wealth of information for our child. Both the testing and consultation we had done for our child helped us to better understand our child’s learning patterns and needs.

This company came to me highly recommended, but unfortunately I was extremely disappointed. I have never written a public review before, and hardly ever complain about any service, always feeling people do their best, but I felt I had to write this time.
While the classes my son took were good, the administrational support I received was appalling. I never received any follow up session with the instructor as was part of the program for both classes my son took. Another mother with a son in the same class had to ask numerous times before we got any paperwork about the class so we could claim on our insurance, and about 1 month after the class I received a phone call saying I owed $ 50 for the classes. Of course I was happy to pay if I owed money for services, but when I asked what the $ 50 was for as I knew nothing about it, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.
I sent a letter detailing why I was unhappy (my first letter of complaint ever) with the services and never heard anything in reply. Then two weeks later I was sent an emailing asking if wished to take further classes with Morrissey Compton. Nothing could be further from the case. i would not recommend this company unless you were absolutely desperate. Their treatment of people is appalling. I do have to say the front desk was always very helpful and cheerful, but the administration and customer service is terrible. Do not use this company unless you want more headaches than you already have.
Jan

Our second full review for a school admissions process.
Always professional and caring. There may be other professionals that offer educational services, but I can say after many meetings with school admin and trying to navigate an IEP the services here are top notch and well respected state wide. Thank you Compton, we appreciate all you did to help demystify the educational services sector with grace, patience and a smile.
Your team is simply the best.