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<blockquote data-quote="Mama_to_Grace" data-source="post: 453240" data-attributes="member: 12616"><p>Thanks everyone for your comments. I have read The Explosive Child by Ross Greene and use CPS often. The Neuro psychiatric who diagnosed my daughter was a colleague of Dr Greene. I have also read The Bipolar Child and this is what really got me to start thinking about Bipolar as a possibility. I know it overlaps a lot with AS, but her separation anxiety and mood swings really are extreme. They are caused by frustration so perhaps you are right-it is all within the context of the AS.</p><p></p><p>Her anxiety is perhaps the most debilitating aspect of her issues. It causes her to be very reactionary and "on guard" which leads to exhaustion and meltdowns.</p><p></p><p>The school thing really upset me at the time. When I had the private Neuro psychiatric evaluation done, they gave me a 26 page report of all the results of the testing. On those results she showed a drastic difference in her memory and processing skills and I believe this is her problem with reading. If you gave her a list of even difficult words she can read them to you with no problem. But if you give her a paragraph of simple Kinder level words she cannot read it or tell you what it says. I believe this is a processing problem. Perhaps she spends her energy on reading the words but cannot understand the context/meaning when there is a string of words for her to understand. Words are too vague for her. She is profoundly gifted in math-where numbers are finite and she can work with them in her mind. But words are difficult and she becomes frustrated if I even suggest we try to read. It makes me sad because the public school would have just pushed her along from grade to grade without addressing this. The private school doesn't do much better-mainly because I don't think they understand the differences in her processing. I am considering getting her a reading tutor-but I don't know if I can find one in our small town that understands how to address these things.</p><p></p><p>It is very sad when I see her peers come into class with 100+ page books they are reading when my daughter cannot even read a Dr Seuss book or K level book. I really need to find a way to remediate her reading but dealing with the behavior issues has been my full-time focus!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mama_to_Grace, post: 453240, member: 12616"] Thanks everyone for your comments. I have read The Explosive Child by Ross Greene and use CPS often. The Neuro psychiatric who diagnosed my daughter was a colleague of Dr Greene. I have also read The Bipolar Child and this is what really got me to start thinking about Bipolar as a possibility. I know it overlaps a lot with AS, but her separation anxiety and mood swings really are extreme. They are caused by frustration so perhaps you are right-it is all within the context of the AS. Her anxiety is perhaps the most debilitating aspect of her issues. It causes her to be very reactionary and "on guard" which leads to exhaustion and meltdowns. The school thing really upset me at the time. When I had the private Neuro psychiatric evaluation done, they gave me a 26 page report of all the results of the testing. On those results she showed a drastic difference in her memory and processing skills and I believe this is her problem with reading. If you gave her a list of even difficult words she can read them to you with no problem. But if you give her a paragraph of simple Kinder level words she cannot read it or tell you what it says. I believe this is a processing problem. Perhaps she spends her energy on reading the words but cannot understand the context/meaning when there is a string of words for her to understand. Words are too vague for her. She is profoundly gifted in math-where numbers are finite and she can work with them in her mind. But words are difficult and she becomes frustrated if I even suggest we try to read. It makes me sad because the public school would have just pushed her along from grade to grade without addressing this. The private school doesn't do much better-mainly because I don't think they understand the differences in her processing. I am considering getting her a reading tutor-but I don't know if I can find one in our small town that understands how to address these things. It is very sad when I see her peers come into class with 100+ page books they are reading when my daughter cannot even read a Dr Seuss book or K level book. I really need to find a way to remediate her reading but dealing with the behavior issues has been my full-time focus!! [/QUOTE]
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