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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 532896" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>Hi, Rhondajean,</p><p></p><p>You've found the right place... welcome.</p><p></p><p>Let's see... your son sounds familiar!</p><p>9/10/11 are a common time for problems that were missed before, to snowball... and the poor kid ends up totally lost. </p><p>You're right that the move didn't help... but even if you had stayed where you were, all of this may have happened.</p><p></p><p>ADD + Depression usually means (in my experience) ADD + other stuff. The depression would be what happened when the other stuff wasn't found and dealt with.</p><p></p><p>THere's a raft of dxes that "tend" to go with ADD - they call it co-morbidity. Some of the rates are really high. Some, I don't have rates off the top of my head, but common.</p><p>1) Learning Disabilities - even in mild form, the problems multiply, and at about Grade 4, the work shifts from learning basic skills, to having to apply them (assumed proficiency). Reading, writing, math, etc.</p><p>2) Half of the people with ADD/ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) - developmental coordination disorder, a neuro-motor problem that can affect fine motor, gross motor, or both, in varying degrees.</p><p>3) 70% of the kids with ADD/ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), also have Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder, which we now know covers a lot more cases than just the originally defined problem of processing verbal language... for example, one of the other APDs is having problems with auditory figure ground, where all the sounds blend together into mumbo-jumbo in the brain... the person can't pick out the important sounds, or can only do so with extreme effort, leaving little brainpower for processing what is heard.</p><p></p><p>Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation? Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 532896, member: 13003"] Hi, Rhondajean, You've found the right place... welcome. Let's see... your son sounds familiar! 9/10/11 are a common time for problems that were missed before, to snowball... and the poor kid ends up totally lost. You're right that the move didn't help... but even if you had stayed where you were, all of this may have happened. ADD + Depression usually means (in my experience) ADD + other stuff. The depression would be what happened when the other stuff wasn't found and dealt with. THere's a raft of dxes that "tend" to go with ADD - they call it co-morbidity. Some of the rates are really high. Some, I don't have rates off the top of my head, but common. 1) Learning Disabilities - even in mild form, the problems multiply, and at about Grade 4, the work shifts from learning basic skills, to having to apply them (assumed proficiency). Reading, writing, math, etc. 2) Half of the people with ADD/ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) - developmental coordination disorder, a neuro-motor problem that can affect fine motor, gross motor, or both, in varying degrees. 3) 70% of the kids with ADD/ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), also have Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder, which we now know covers a lot more cases than just the originally defined problem of processing verbal language... for example, one of the other APDs is having problems with auditory figure ground, where all the sounds blend together into mumbo-jumbo in the brain... the person can't pick out the important sounds, or can only do so with extreme effort, leaving little brainpower for processing what is heard. Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation? Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation? [/QUOTE]
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