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Anyone that had child diagnoised as early as 5?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 262878" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Tania, this is a very disturbed kid with some scary behaviors and he is dangerous to your other child (and will probably be just as dangerous to other kids once he starts school if you don't get a handle on what is wrong with him). I know it's expensive, but I'd try to find a private neuropsychologist to pay out and have them test him. If you do have four hours of testing, I think you should find one who will do all four hours. My son was tested for ten hours and it was well worth it. </p><p>With all the issues your son has, in my opinion you won't get satisfactory answers from the schools. They aren't equpped to diagnose much. They can't tell you why this kid tries to cut the cat or choke you. It's certainly more than ADHD and may require medication and, yes, ongoing therapy, especially if Dad abused him. And I would highly suspect abuse. in my opinion you can't do this yourself just by using therapy methods that work for "normal" kids. You need a diagnostician who is very sharp (and unfortunately schools don't usually have them) and somebody who can see this child on an ongoing basis. There are county mental health clinics if you can't afford anything else, but I'd take the neuropsychologist evaluation to a private person. It's a one time thing.</p><p>It really WOULD help if you'd fill us in more on the reason he was diagnosed with PTSD. Did his father mentally, physically or sexually abuse him? What kind of issues does his biological father have? The more we know the more we can try to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 262878, member: 1550"] Tania, this is a very disturbed kid with some scary behaviors and he is dangerous to your other child (and will probably be just as dangerous to other kids once he starts school if you don't get a handle on what is wrong with him). I know it's expensive, but I'd try to find a private neuropsychologist to pay out and have them test him. If you do have four hours of testing, I think you should find one who will do all four hours. My son was tested for ten hours and it was well worth it. With all the issues your son has, in my opinion you won't get satisfactory answers from the schools. They aren't equpped to diagnose much. They can't tell you why this kid tries to cut the cat or choke you. It's certainly more than ADHD and may require medication and, yes, ongoing therapy, especially if Dad abused him. And I would highly suspect abuse. in my opinion you can't do this yourself just by using therapy methods that work for "normal" kids. You need a diagnostician who is very sharp (and unfortunately schools don't usually have them) and somebody who can see this child on an ongoing basis. There are county mental health clinics if you can't afford anything else, but I'd take the neuropsychologist evaluation to a private person. It's a one time thing. It really WOULD help if you'd fill us in more on the reason he was diagnosed with PTSD. Did his father mentally, physically or sexually abuse him? What kind of issues does his biological father have? The more we know the more we can try to help. [/QUOTE]
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