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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 515862" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Has your daughter ever had a comprehensive evaluation by a child behavioural specialst team, or a neuropsychologist? Ever had an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation or an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation?</p><p></p><p>Our experience was that ODD... means "there is more going on". You may have to push hard to get evaluations. You may have to pay for some of the initial ones yourself (we had to, and we're in Canada where that is not so "usual"). Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations are worth getting <em>before</em> a comprehensive evaluation, because even many of the best evaluation teams don't include these... BUT, if you have the reports... they WILL use them.</p><p></p><p>What would you be looking for?</p><p>Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation: sensory and motor skills issues. These snowball... what may not be obvious to us, is HUGE to the kid. And every year that goes by where these things are not recognized and dealt with, compounds the problem.</p><p></p><p>Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation - at this age, I'd be especially looking for the full range of APDs (not just the classic Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) which affects processing of verbal language)... things like auditory figure ground are extremely subtle, and extremely frustrating for the kid.</p><p></p><p>You may well find that your child doens't fit "one" diagnosis (diagnosis). Rather, there MAY be a number of things going on... any one of which would require interventions and accommodations, but when taken together... it's almost worse than a "major" diagnosis like Asperger's or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).... partly because nobody believes you that it can possibly be that bad!</p><p></p><p>Complicating factor: sleep. How is her quantity of sleep? How about quality - harder to measure, but if us humans don't get enough quality sleep... that alone can induce significant behavior problems even in adults (worse in kids), and if there are other existing issues, sleep problems WILL make them worse.</p><p></p><p>Just some ideas...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 515862, member: 11791"] Has your daughter ever had a comprehensive evaluation by a child behavioural specialst team, or a neuropsychologist? Ever had an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation or an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation? Our experience was that ODD... means "there is more going on". You may have to push hard to get evaluations. You may have to pay for some of the initial ones yourself (we had to, and we're in Canada where that is not so "usual"). Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations are worth getting [I]before[/I] a comprehensive evaluation, because even many of the best evaluation teams don't include these... BUT, if you have the reports... they WILL use them. What would you be looking for? Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation: sensory and motor skills issues. These snowball... what may not be obvious to us, is HUGE to the kid. And every year that goes by where these things are not recognized and dealt with, compounds the problem. Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation - at this age, I'd be especially looking for the full range of APDs (not just the classic Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) which affects processing of verbal language)... things like auditory figure ground are extremely subtle, and extremely frustrating for the kid. You may well find that your child doens't fit "one" diagnosis (diagnosis). Rather, there MAY be a number of things going on... any one of which would require interventions and accommodations, but when taken together... it's almost worse than a "major" diagnosis like Asperger's or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).... partly because nobody believes you that it can possibly be that bad! Complicating factor: sleep. How is her quantity of sleep? How about quality - harder to measure, but if us humans don't get enough quality sleep... that alone can induce significant behavior problems even in adults (worse in kids), and if there are other existing issues, sleep problems WILL make them worse. Just some ideas... [/QUOTE]
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