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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 518340" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>Where did YOU go wrong? Probably not.</p><p>Your difficult child is of an age where... it wasn't possible to get answers back when he needed them, and the years of garbage that he's had to put up with at school may be driving him into total insanity. There comes a point where they just can't handle it any more.</p><p></p><p>There are things they can test for now, that they couldn't or didn't 10 years ago. </p><p>1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills. 50% of kids with ADHD also have motor skills problems, which can really complicate school both in-class and socially... sensory problems also compound this.</p><p>2) Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation for hidden APDs such as auditory figure ground. Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) problems look exactly like ADHD - and/or can co-exist. When you said he's got gaps in his basic education... red flag for APDs. He's catching some stuff, not other stuff... This one alone is a massive problem at school, if he indeed has this.</p><p>3) depression in the male population often manifests as anger... if he's been fighting an impossible uphill battle at school for years and it just keeps getting worse... at some point they either turn on themselves or on others. But it isn't anger, it's depression. And the depression is "situational"... caused by the other stuff.</p><p></p><p>difficult child went downhill for about 10 years running.</p><p>We get answers to 1) and 2) and... he's going uphill 10x faster than his fastest downhill drop!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 518340, member: 13003"] Where did YOU go wrong? Probably not. Your difficult child is of an age where... it wasn't possible to get answers back when he needed them, and the years of garbage that he's had to put up with at school may be driving him into total insanity. There comes a point where they just can't handle it any more. There are things they can test for now, that they couldn't or didn't 10 years ago. 1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills. 50% of kids with ADHD also have motor skills problems, which can really complicate school both in-class and socially... sensory problems also compound this. 2) Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation for hidden APDs such as auditory figure ground. Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) problems look exactly like ADHD - and/or can co-exist. When you said he's got gaps in his basic education... red flag for APDs. He's catching some stuff, not other stuff... This one alone is a massive problem at school, if he indeed has this. 3) depression in the male population often manifests as anger... if he's been fighting an impossible uphill battle at school for years and it just keeps getting worse... at some point they either turn on themselves or on others. But it isn't anger, it's depression. And the depression is "situational"... caused by the other stuff. difficult child went downhill for about 10 years running. We get answers to 1) and 2) and... he's going uphill 10x faster than his fastest downhill drop! [/QUOTE]
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