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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 420944" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I agree with you about sometimes the brain needing to catch up. I've seen a lot of improvement in difficult child 1, simple as he gets older. </p><p></p><p>Your community college sounds like our TAFE, which is what I talk about when I mention "college". People (any age) attend TAFE and can get formal qualifications including school qualifications in later years. Sometimes these qualifications can be used to give "recognition of prior learning" into a uni course. SIL1 did this - he got 18 months off his uni degree (basically, his entry level was halfway through 2nd year uni) because he had done so much at TAFE. So far difficult child 3 has Cert 1 in computing from TAFE, although he did this as part of his schoolwork last year. He's currently enrolled in Cert II through school. </p><p></p><p>We also have what we call community college - non-formal qualifications only. You can do courses in flower arranging, creative writing (I've taught tat at community college level), woodwork etc. People do these for personal interest and sometimes as a bridging course towards starting a more formal qualification course.</p><p></p><p>When difficult child 1 finished school, I told him he had to either do a course, volunteer somewhere or get a job. A job seemed impossible, so he did the course plus the volunteer option. As for volunteering, you can generally find somewhere, even if you have to invent a placement. I might have to do this with difficult child 3.</p><p></p><p>ML, medications - the kids take dexamphetamine. This is prescribed as a 5 mg short-acting tablet, but it can be privately compounded into a 10 mg long-acting tablet. It costs us about $1 a tablet. We found that dex works better than ritalin for our boys, because they both get rebound on methylphenidate. difficult child 1 only took ritalin, never Concerta (it wasn't available for us back then) and we found rebound was too serious a problem. He did so much better on dex that when Concerta was offered, he refused.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 wanted to try Concerta, but it wasn't doing a good enough job. Turned out the dose was too low. But as we increased the dose, rebound got worse. One weekend we went away to visit family and had forgotten to pack his Concerta. husband & I each had a stash of spare dex tablets with us, we pooled what we had and dosed him with those over the weekend (rationing them) and found, even on the lower dose, his behaviour and everything was so much better. So we switched back to dex. Current dose, that seems to just barely help him work, is 40 mg dex in sustained release form. We do have a supply of short-acting tablets if we need a fast boost (such as taking his morning dose later than usual). </p><p></p><p>We also at one point tried Strattera with difficult child 3. Total disaster, we took him off it after three days.</p><p></p><p>I still haven't had the chance to talk to the speech therapist about difficult child 3's results. We spoke briefly yesterday, ironically we were on the same stretch of road, she must have passed me while I was stopped to send her a text message! Because our route takes us out of mobile phone range, we only had a short call. We'd been playing phone tag all afternoon. I don't expect to get the chance to really talk to her, until Monday.</p><p></p><p>I'll let you know what happens.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 420944, member: 1991"] I agree with you about sometimes the brain needing to catch up. I've seen a lot of improvement in difficult child 1, simple as he gets older. Your community college sounds like our TAFE, which is what I talk about when I mention "college". People (any age) attend TAFE and can get formal qualifications including school qualifications in later years. Sometimes these qualifications can be used to give "recognition of prior learning" into a uni course. SIL1 did this - he got 18 months off his uni degree (basically, his entry level was halfway through 2nd year uni) because he had done so much at TAFE. So far difficult child 3 has Cert 1 in computing from TAFE, although he did this as part of his schoolwork last year. He's currently enrolled in Cert II through school. We also have what we call community college - non-formal qualifications only. You can do courses in flower arranging, creative writing (I've taught tat at community college level), woodwork etc. People do these for personal interest and sometimes as a bridging course towards starting a more formal qualification course. When difficult child 1 finished school, I told him he had to either do a course, volunteer somewhere or get a job. A job seemed impossible, so he did the course plus the volunteer option. As for volunteering, you can generally find somewhere, even if you have to invent a placement. I might have to do this with difficult child 3. ML, medications - the kids take dexamphetamine. This is prescribed as a 5 mg short-acting tablet, but it can be privately compounded into a 10 mg long-acting tablet. It costs us about $1 a tablet. We found that dex works better than ritalin for our boys, because they both get rebound on methylphenidate. difficult child 1 only took ritalin, never Concerta (it wasn't available for us back then) and we found rebound was too serious a problem. He did so much better on dex that when Concerta was offered, he refused. difficult child 3 wanted to try Concerta, but it wasn't doing a good enough job. Turned out the dose was too low. But as we increased the dose, rebound got worse. One weekend we went away to visit family and had forgotten to pack his Concerta. husband & I each had a stash of spare dex tablets with us, we pooled what we had and dosed him with those over the weekend (rationing them) and found, even on the lower dose, his behaviour and everything was so much better. So we switched back to dex. Current dose, that seems to just barely help him work, is 40 mg dex in sustained release form. We do have a supply of short-acting tablets if we need a fast boost (such as taking his morning dose later than usual). We also at one point tried Strattera with difficult child 3. Total disaster, we took him off it after three days. I still haven't had the chance to talk to the speech therapist about difficult child 3's results. We spoke briefly yesterday, ironically we were on the same stretch of road, she must have passed me while I was stopped to send her a text message! Because our route takes us out of mobile phone range, we only had a short call. We'd been playing phone tag all afternoon. I don't expect to get the chance to really talk to her, until Monday. I'll let you know what happens. Marg [/QUOTE]
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