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easy child is now a difficult child and I am going crazy with two of them!
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 518142" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>You did say your easy child/difficult child has an ADHD diagnosis, right?</p><p></p><p><this is a recording... well, not quite, but...></p><p>1) 50% of kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (whether they ever get that diagnosis or not) - developmental coordination disorder. Good info source: <a href="http://www.canchild.ca" target="_blank">www.canchild.ca</a> Sometimes kids can "fake it" through to about grade 4 or 5... run on raw intellegence and creative ways of minimizing motor-skills work (e.g. writing... ) until the volume of work and quality expectations skyrocket somewhere between grade 4 and grade 5.</p><p>2) LDs are frequently co-morbid with ADHD. And the smarter the kid, the longer they can "hide" it, but eventually... they can't.</p><p>3) 70% of kids that have ADHD and an Learning Disability (LD)... also have Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - and most of us think of APDs in terms of what was generally called Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), which showed up in problems processing verbal language. BUT there are others that don't affect language... like auditory figure ground (difficulty "hearing" in the presence of background noise... this is not a hearing problem, it's a "filtering" problem). </p><p></p><p>If he hasn't had any evaluations yet, while you're waiting for other stuff (or alongside other stuff), see about an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills issues (not a school Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation... they won't cover the bases), and an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation specifically looking for non-traditional APDs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 518142, member: 11791"] You did say your easy child/difficult child has an ADHD diagnosis, right? <this is a recording... well, not quite, but...> 1) 50% of kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (whether they ever get that diagnosis or not) - developmental coordination disorder. Good info source: [URL="http://www.canchild.ca"]www.canchild.ca[/URL] Sometimes kids can "fake it" through to about grade 4 or 5... run on raw intellegence and creative ways of minimizing motor-skills work (e.g. writing... ) until the volume of work and quality expectations skyrocket somewhere between grade 4 and grade 5. 2) LDs are frequently co-morbid with ADHD. And the smarter the kid, the longer they can "hide" it, but eventually... they can't. 3) 70% of kids that have ADHD and an Learning Disability (LD)... also have Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - and most of us think of APDs in terms of what was generally called Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), which showed up in problems processing verbal language. BUT there are others that don't affect language... like auditory figure ground (difficulty "hearing" in the presence of background noise... this is not a hearing problem, it's a "filtering" problem). If he hasn't had any evaluations yet, while you're waiting for other stuff (or alongside other stuff), see about an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills issues (not a school Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation... they won't cover the bases), and an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation specifically looking for non-traditional APDs. [/QUOTE]
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