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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 461859" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, all of this has my head spinning, to be honest! (Which isn't anyone's "fault", needless to say...) It sounds like the diagnostic tools you have available in Canada, Insane, are much more sophisticated than here. And I would be happier with a more sophisticated version, of course, given that that is presumably more accurate. About the concentration thing, I don't even really know what is going on with any great accuracy. He manages to sit down at school with the others and do their exercises, so that is what I mean. But then, thinking about it in the light of your post, I suddenly realised... all the times that J wanders off, for example, when I have asked him to stay near the house (just one example - I could give many) - has he done that to be openly defiant or simply because he has forgotten what I said, taken over by some other impulse in the moment? Sometimes he seems very surprised when I remind him of something I have already told him, as if he is hearing it for the first time... So maybe it is like what you said in another post and the seeming "no concentration problems" at school are just not appearing yet because he is only 4 and they are not doing anything very demanding of their attention? </p><p>The things that have always pointed to ADHD are that he is very hyperactive and impulsive. I do understand that these can be due to other things than ADHD though I don't have much detailed understanding of what and how... but I am living in a context where <strong>no one</strong> in the professional context has ever suggested anything other than ADHD. So I am obviously going down that line myself because he does seem to fit what I read. When I gave a detailed portrait of him to someone who has an ADHD/ODD child, he said "That's it! That's my own boy to a T". So... you know... none of this is straightforward. What is important is that he is now on a route to have potential learning disorders uncovered. This perhaps matters more at this stage than coming up with a definitive diagnosis which no one is going to do here until he is about six anyway. And how he gets on at school in the next couple of years will also be very revealing. I do agree that he doesn't have straight ADHD because of his aggressive/defiant impulses on occasion (though like I say I have read about increased aggressiveness in ADHD children). So... there I have to leave it for the moment I guess <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>As for the male buddy system - no, there's nothing formal like that in France. Maybe if one can do it informally that is better, anyway. I have recently made contact through a chance encounter with a group of Moroccans who meet every Sunday to share lunch and speak Moroccan Arabic with children. I plan to start taking J to this. It may lead to some possibility along these lines. </p><p>Onwards and upwards...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 461859, member: 11227"] Well, all of this has my head spinning, to be honest! (Which isn't anyone's "fault", needless to say...) It sounds like the diagnostic tools you have available in Canada, Insane, are much more sophisticated than here. And I would be happier with a more sophisticated version, of course, given that that is presumably more accurate. About the concentration thing, I don't even really know what is going on with any great accuracy. He manages to sit down at school with the others and do their exercises, so that is what I mean. But then, thinking about it in the light of your post, I suddenly realised... all the times that J wanders off, for example, when I have asked him to stay near the house (just one example - I could give many) - has he done that to be openly defiant or simply because he has forgotten what I said, taken over by some other impulse in the moment? Sometimes he seems very surprised when I remind him of something I have already told him, as if he is hearing it for the first time... So maybe it is like what you said in another post and the seeming "no concentration problems" at school are just not appearing yet because he is only 4 and they are not doing anything very demanding of their attention? The things that have always pointed to ADHD are that he is very hyperactive and impulsive. I do understand that these can be due to other things than ADHD though I don't have much detailed understanding of what and how... but I am living in a context where [B]no one[/B] in the professional context has ever suggested anything other than ADHD. So I am obviously going down that line myself because he does seem to fit what I read. When I gave a detailed portrait of him to someone who has an ADHD/ODD child, he said "That's it! That's my own boy to a T". So... you know... none of this is straightforward. What is important is that he is now on a route to have potential learning disorders uncovered. This perhaps matters more at this stage than coming up with a definitive diagnosis which no one is going to do here until he is about six anyway. And how he gets on at school in the next couple of years will also be very revealing. I do agree that he doesn't have straight ADHD because of his aggressive/defiant impulses on occasion (though like I say I have read about increased aggressiveness in ADHD children). So... there I have to leave it for the moment I guess :) As for the male buddy system - no, there's nothing formal like that in France. Maybe if one can do it informally that is better, anyway. I have recently made contact through a chance encounter with a group of Moroccans who meet every Sunday to share lunch and speak Moroccan Arabic with children. I plan to start taking J to this. It may lead to some possibility along these lines. Onwards and upwards... [/QUOTE]
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