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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 514522" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>You have two problems... an immediate short term major issue, and a long-term problem.</p><p>The short-term one is that the problem behaviors are unsafe for difficult child or for others. You can't just ignore these (like you can with some behaviors), yet so many approaches don't work. Others have given you some good advice for this stage.</p><p></p><p>The longer-term problem... you need to listen to your Mommy-gut. There is either more going on, or something else entirely. Something about the diagnosis list isn't right. Not because you didn't get a reasonable evaluation team - you did better than many of us - but... there can be so many layers, and things are not always obvious, and then there's the whole complicating factor of who knows about what, when... because sometimes the problem "should" be obvious but the right person doesn't know about the right test, so it gets missed...</p><p></p><p>ADHD is a tricky diagnosis. Its symptoms can belong to a range of OTHER dxes... from Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)... to who knows what else. Plus... there's a wide range of dxes that can and often DO go "with" ADHD (co-morbid). One way or the other, these "missing" dxes might be the root cause of the behavior... </p><p></p><p>Ditto on the recommended books, by the way - The Explosive Child changed how I viewed my child... and pretty much every other "problem" kid I run into in life... It starts with challenging a basic assumption about kids - because everyone knows that "kids do well if they want to"... right? Nope. "Kids do well if they CAN". So, if they aren't doing well... there's got to be a reason. Its a REALLY good read, even if you don't become an expert on collaborative problem solving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 514522, member: 11791"] You have two problems... an immediate short term major issue, and a long-term problem. The short-term one is that the problem behaviors are unsafe for difficult child or for others. You can't just ignore these (like you can with some behaviors), yet so many approaches don't work. Others have given you some good advice for this stage. The longer-term problem... you need to listen to your Mommy-gut. There is either more going on, or something else entirely. Something about the diagnosis list isn't right. Not because you didn't get a reasonable evaluation team - you did better than many of us - but... there can be so many layers, and things are not always obvious, and then there's the whole complicating factor of who knows about what, when... because sometimes the problem "should" be obvious but the right person doesn't know about the right test, so it gets missed... ADHD is a tricky diagnosis. Its symptoms can belong to a range of OTHER dxes... from Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)... to who knows what else. Plus... there's a wide range of dxes that can and often DO go "with" ADHD (co-morbid). One way or the other, these "missing" dxes might be the root cause of the behavior... Ditto on the recommended books, by the way - The Explosive Child changed how I viewed my child... and pretty much every other "problem" kid I run into in life... It starts with challenging a basic assumption about kids - because everyone knows that "kids do well if they want to"... right? Nope. "Kids do well if they CAN". So, if they aren't doing well... there's got to be a reason. Its a REALLY good read, even if you don't become an expert on collaborative problem solving. [/QUOTE]
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