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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 128599" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Ok, so I guess you're in the US.</p><p>The answer to "wouldn't they know by 14" is not necessarily. First of all, schools rarely do good diagnosing. Sadly, the best people are not usually employed by schools. And psychologists aren't always great diagnosticians anyways.</p><p></p><p>My son was diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder at 11. High functioning autism, such as Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and Aspergers get diagnosed much later and are often mistaken for ADHD/ODD or bipolar. Laughing out of the blue, making strange sounds, sometimes hand flapping or other strange gestures, lack of social skills, poor eye contact with strangers, uneven academic performances, strange obsessions, difficulty with transitions (this can cause raging) sensory issues...all of these are symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and they can mimic bipolar. My son, unfortunately, got a bipolar diagnosis first and he doesn't have that.</p><p></p><p>But bipolar exists too and neither autism spesctrum or bipolar should or can be diagnosed by anyone at school. I recommend seeing a neuropsychologist (privately). They do intensive evaluations, often up to ten hours of testing. Plus they have no stake in the diagnosis, like the school does (the school wants to give your child the LEAST amount of services and their diagnosis. are often way off). </p><p></p><p>Do you have any psychiatric or neurological disorders on the family tree? Did your child have any early speech or developmental delays?</p><p>You may want to do a signature of your entire family, like I did below. The more we know, the better we can try to suggest ways you can get help. I would try to see an outside neuropsychologist at the same time that you are trying to resolve the school problem. Yes, I think it's wrong to suspend any disordered child for such a small thing, but they don't know what's really going on yet and they probably think he's "bad." I totally disagree. You can take it to the Superintendent. What kind of class is this? BD? (I personally don't like labeling our kids as BD). Is he getting serious help for any academic or social skills or occupational therapy issues?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 128599, member: 1550"] Ok, so I guess you're in the US. The answer to "wouldn't they know by 14" is not necessarily. First of all, schools rarely do good diagnosing. Sadly, the best people are not usually employed by schools. And psychologists aren't always great diagnosticians anyways. My son was diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder at 11. High functioning autism, such as Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified and Aspergers get diagnosed much later and are often mistaken for ADHD/ODD or bipolar. Laughing out of the blue, making strange sounds, sometimes hand flapping or other strange gestures, lack of social skills, poor eye contact with strangers, uneven academic performances, strange obsessions, difficulty with transitions (this can cause raging) sensory issues...all of these are symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and they can mimic bipolar. My son, unfortunately, got a bipolar diagnosis first and he doesn't have that. But bipolar exists too and neither autism spesctrum or bipolar should or can be diagnosed by anyone at school. I recommend seeing a neuropsychologist (privately). They do intensive evaluations, often up to ten hours of testing. Plus they have no stake in the diagnosis, like the school does (the school wants to give your child the LEAST amount of services and their diagnosis. are often way off). Do you have any psychiatric or neurological disorders on the family tree? Did your child have any early speech or developmental delays? You may want to do a signature of your entire family, like I did below. The more we know, the better we can try to suggest ways you can get help. I would try to see an outside neuropsychologist at the same time that you are trying to resolve the school problem. Yes, I think it's wrong to suspend any disordered child for such a small thing, but they don't know what's really going on yet and they probably think he's "bad." I totally disagree. You can take it to the Superintendent. What kind of class is this? BD? (I personally don't like labeling our kids as BD). Is he getting serious help for any academic or social skills or occupational therapy issues? [/QUOTE]
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