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<blockquote data-quote="Calgon_Take_Me_Away" data-source="post: 178295" data-attributes="member: 5645"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: darkorchid">We've been to the university three times ~ the first time in Oct 2005 for initial 8 hrs of testing, Oct 2006 for re-evaluation and Feb 2007 for follow up. I don't believe he's ever seen a Neuro psychiatric.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I liked our first psychiatrist before we moved. After moving, the new psychiatric questioned difficult child's diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and wanted to wean the Abilify. His words to me were, "If it doesn't work then you will have proved to me". It didn't work.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I feel they aren't "seeing" him because 1) he holds himself together around "the professionals" and only when he's comfortable will the barrier come down and he shows himself; 2) he's been medicated everytime ~ once I asked if we could wean for testing and was told they don't recommend it.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I feel this is why school hasn't seen issues until this past year because he wasn't comfortable, but now he is so he shows it. The therapist sees difficult child because he's broke the barrier.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">Something I forgot to mention (lots of information to post) in the previous post is his social awkwardness. He doesn't comprehend socially, someone tells a joke and generally he never gets it, other kids tell him to do things that are off the wall and then laugh at him when he does it .... he says they're his friends (on the bus, they told him to hump the seat, so he did, they laughed, then told the principal what he did). We've seen him play well with- others, but generally it turns agressive and physical.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">His teacher picked up on things this year that we wouldn't have seen: in class he can answer questions over a subject, but when it came time to put the same information on a worksheet he struggled ~ she said it was like he had no clue what they had just talked about. Oral testing is much better than written ~ he struggles with- reading the questions and answering them; but if read to him, he can answer.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calgon_Take_Me_Away, post: 178295, member: 5645"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=darkorchid]We've been to the university three times ~ the first time in Oct 2005 for initial 8 hrs of testing, Oct 2006 for re-evaluation and Feb 2007 for follow up. I don't believe he's ever seen a Neuro psychiatric.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I liked our first psychiatrist before we moved. After moving, the new psychiatric questioned difficult child's diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and wanted to wean the Abilify. His words to me were, "If it doesn't work then you will have proved to me". It didn't work.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I feel they aren't "seeing" him because 1) he holds himself together around "the professionals" and only when he's comfortable will the barrier come down and he shows himself; 2) he's been medicated everytime ~ once I asked if we could wean for testing and was told they don't recommend it.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I feel this is why school hasn't seen issues until this past year because he wasn't comfortable, but now he is so he shows it. The therapist sees difficult child because he's broke the barrier.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]Something I forgot to mention (lots of information to post) in the previous post is his social awkwardness. He doesn't comprehend socially, someone tells a joke and generally he never gets it, other kids tell him to do things that are off the wall and then laugh at him when he does it .... he says they're his friends (on the bus, they told him to hump the seat, so he did, they laughed, then told the principal what he did). We've seen him play well with- others, but generally it turns agressive and physical.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]His teacher picked up on things this year that we wouldn't have seen: in class he can answer questions over a subject, but when it came time to put the same information on a worksheet he struggled ~ she said it was like he had no clue what they had just talked about. Oral testing is much better than written ~ he struggles with- reading the questions and answering them; but if read to him, he can answer.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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