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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 145154"><p>There are many things that get to me, but I'll start at the first thing that popped into my mind when I read your post.</p><p></p><p>The lady is an <em>Educational Specialist</em>. I'm assuming she doesn't have any letters after her name like M.D. Who is she to agree or disagree with psychiatrist's diagnosis? Plus, Adjustment Disorder as described in the DSM-IV only lasts for 6 months. After that time period, it's considered something else. That part where the SD doesn't agree with the diagnosis really, really gets to me. If a child is diagnosis'd with epilepsy is the SD going to say, 'Oh, I don't agree with that diagnosis?' I know there is no definitive testing that can prove or disprove psychiatric disorders, but the doctors are trained and educated and have clinical practice experience. </p><p></p><p>I would be very concerned and want to know exactly what she means about the teachers singling difficult child out if they knew of a BiPolar (BP) diagnosis. I would want to know exactly what training they received. Since this was paid with taxpayer money, it is public record. Your child is not going to be the only child that goes through that school with that diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>And how is treating difficult child's problems as purely behavioral working for them? Not well apparently if he's not completing homework (I think I remember you mentioning that) and if he still got in trouble and got suspended. You can punish executive function problems all day long; it's not going to fix anything. The child isn't going to miraculously 'get it'. </p><p></p><p>I agree. Their time and resources could be much better spent doing what would actually be beneficial to difficult child than covering their rears and calling the police. Imagine what might happen if they spent the time figuring out a number or word scale to report behavior instead on helping difficult child organize himself and offer him some guidance.</p><p></p><p>I don't know how you do it. We didn't have the behavioral (for lack of a better term - sorry) issues with difficult child at school and I still got tired of fighting with them and now she's learning at home. It's just like beating your head against a brick wall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 145154"] There are many things that get to me, but I'll start at the first thing that popped into my mind when I read your post. The lady is an [I]Educational Specialist[/I]. I'm assuming she doesn't have any letters after her name like M.D. Who is she to agree or disagree with psychiatrist's diagnosis? Plus, Adjustment Disorder as described in the DSM-IV only lasts for 6 months. After that time period, it's considered something else. That part where the SD doesn't agree with the diagnosis really, really gets to me. If a child is diagnosis'd with epilepsy is the SD going to say, 'Oh, I don't agree with that diagnosis?' I know there is no definitive testing that can prove or disprove psychiatric disorders, but the doctors are trained and educated and have clinical practice experience. I would be very concerned and want to know exactly what she means about the teachers singling difficult child out if they knew of a BiPolar (BP) diagnosis. I would want to know exactly what training they received. Since this was paid with taxpayer money, it is public record. Your child is not going to be the only child that goes through that school with that diagnosis. And how is treating difficult child's problems as purely behavioral working for them? Not well apparently if he's not completing homework (I think I remember you mentioning that) and if he still got in trouble and got suspended. You can punish executive function problems all day long; it's not going to fix anything. The child isn't going to miraculously 'get it'. I agree. Their time and resources could be much better spent doing what would actually be beneficial to difficult child than covering their rears and calling the police. Imagine what might happen if they spent the time figuring out a number or word scale to report behavior instead on helping difficult child organize himself and offer him some guidance. I don't know how you do it. We didn't have the behavioral (for lack of a better term - sorry) issues with difficult child at school and I still got tired of fighting with them and now she's learning at home. It's just like beating your head against a brick wall. [/QUOTE]
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