STRESSEDTOMAX
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Hi all
Thank you to everyone who responded to my post yesterday. I am feeling a little more clear-headed today and wanted to add some extra information. I actually appreciate the chance to go back and put everything into some order in my head.
A problem first surfaced at @18 months with difficult child. He was attending a preschool on the campus of the college that I was going to and they noticed when he was about three that he was displaying speech delays and oppositional behavior-he would run away from teachers, would not listen, was hitting, etc. They suggested that I look into getting him some help through my SD, especially for the speech. This is basically when I began the process of getting the IEP. This was in the spring of 2005- he was almost 4. He had been displaying oppositional behavior at home also-he intentionally broke my eyeglasses, knocked down a dresser in his room, tore wallpaper off the wall, etc. It is hard to remember all the things that were happening but I know our lives were hell from about 3 on.
At that time, a teacher began to come to the preschool a couple of times a week to work with him with his behavior and a speech therapist was coming to the house two times a week for the speech. We took him to a pediatric neurologist and were told that everything was O.K. there. For the IEP, he was seen by a psychologist, found to have a very high IQ(126), but as far as I can recall(I can't locate records) she told me that he was borderline ADHD.
This all took place in N.Y.-right after this we moved to N.C. On the N.Y. IEP he was listed as a preschool student with a disability. He was given itinerant services only for school and he got speech help and we were supposed to go for counseling because they thought the problem was parental discipline.
As the IEP stands now, he is considered developmentally delayed and is supposed to be seeing the Special Education teacher once a week which I do not think is happening. This is the only service he is getting. I am requesting another IEP meeting but I am unsure of exactly what to ask for. He has not been seeing his therapist consistently and his psychiatric I have questions about. He has not given him a diagnosis and seems to feel that he will outgrow this behavior and that it is not ADHD-it is insecurity and anxiety and the solution is for my husband and I to have stricter rules. I understand that structure is important but I am 90% sure that he has ODD as well as some ADHD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and sensory problems. He is compulsively lining things up and straightening things and this has escalated in the past month. The psychiatric says this is anxiety-I'm not sure. He is always having me change his clothes because "they don't feel right" or "they're too loose", etc.
He is on Tenex-1 pill in the evening, a half pill in the morning. He had been on Risperdal but it seemed to be causing anxiety to worsen.
Sorry this is so long-probably won't happen again. I feel as though I am not seeing the right doctor-I would like a diagnosis-I read something from someone about the Mayo clinic- does anyone have any info?
Thanks for being there-I will set up profile soon.
Chris
Thank you to everyone who responded to my post yesterday. I am feeling a little more clear-headed today and wanted to add some extra information. I actually appreciate the chance to go back and put everything into some order in my head.
A problem first surfaced at @18 months with difficult child. He was attending a preschool on the campus of the college that I was going to and they noticed when he was about three that he was displaying speech delays and oppositional behavior-he would run away from teachers, would not listen, was hitting, etc. They suggested that I look into getting him some help through my SD, especially for the speech. This is basically when I began the process of getting the IEP. This was in the spring of 2005- he was almost 4. He had been displaying oppositional behavior at home also-he intentionally broke my eyeglasses, knocked down a dresser in his room, tore wallpaper off the wall, etc. It is hard to remember all the things that were happening but I know our lives were hell from about 3 on.
At that time, a teacher began to come to the preschool a couple of times a week to work with him with his behavior and a speech therapist was coming to the house two times a week for the speech. We took him to a pediatric neurologist and were told that everything was O.K. there. For the IEP, he was seen by a psychologist, found to have a very high IQ(126), but as far as I can recall(I can't locate records) she told me that he was borderline ADHD.
This all took place in N.Y.-right after this we moved to N.C. On the N.Y. IEP he was listed as a preschool student with a disability. He was given itinerant services only for school and he got speech help and we were supposed to go for counseling because they thought the problem was parental discipline.
As the IEP stands now, he is considered developmentally delayed and is supposed to be seeing the Special Education teacher once a week which I do not think is happening. This is the only service he is getting. I am requesting another IEP meeting but I am unsure of exactly what to ask for. He has not been seeing his therapist consistently and his psychiatric I have questions about. He has not given him a diagnosis and seems to feel that he will outgrow this behavior and that it is not ADHD-it is insecurity and anxiety and the solution is for my husband and I to have stricter rules. I understand that structure is important but I am 90% sure that he has ODD as well as some ADHD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and sensory problems. He is compulsively lining things up and straightening things and this has escalated in the past month. The psychiatric says this is anxiety-I'm not sure. He is always having me change his clothes because "they don't feel right" or "they're too loose", etc.
He is on Tenex-1 pill in the evening, a half pill in the morning. He had been on Risperdal but it seemed to be causing anxiety to worsen.
Sorry this is so long-probably won't happen again. I feel as though I am not seeing the right doctor-I would like a diagnosis-I read something from someone about the Mayo clinic- does anyone have any info?
Thanks for being there-I will set up profile soon.
Chris