Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New to group, been lurking for awhile
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 439991" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>14yo difficult child. been there done that - or rather. AM there, DOING that!</p><p></p><p>Its taken us 9 years to get even close to a correct diagnosis (or rather, multiple...). We're just now - with a much better-matching list of diagnosis - starting to turn things around. </p><p>You have some plusses on your side - at least you're not currently fighting the school system - you're home-schooling (we didn't).</p><p>But... you do need to know what you're dealing with.</p><p></p><p>ADHD is going to be the first guess any evaluator will give you - probability of that being ONE factor, at least, is sky high as soon as you say "adopted at birth" (ADHD runs in families, and ADHD kids have a higher proportion of babies given up for adoption... do the math!)</p><p></p><p>But ADHD doesn't begin to explain what you are living with. </p><p>You're probably going to end up down one of two roads... </p><p>1) some form of developmental disorder, such as Aspergers - this would explain the hyper-sensitivities, melt-downs, and some of the other behavior... maybe most of it (we're not officially on that spectrum, so I'm not as up on the full details...)</p><p>2) some form of mental illness - BiPolar (BP), for example, or other things.</p><p></p><p>Depending on what YOUR gut feel is, will probably drive what kind of evaluations to seek out and/or in what order.</p><p>If my gut were developmental... I'd probably start with Occupational Therapist (OT) (occupational therapy) - they will test for things like motor coordination, environmental sensitivities, etc. This will NOT give you any diagnosis, but will give you some good rule-in/rule-out data which will help YOU know what direction you want to go, AND will be useful for whatever other professionals you pull in. Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations are usually fairly reasonable (its the therapy costs that add up!)</p><p>If my gut were mental illness, I'd probably be starting with neuropsychologist or psychiatrist... </p><p>(but this is Canada, and so... depends on what resources are available in your area)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 439991, member: 11791"] 14yo difficult child. been there done that - or rather. AM there, DOING that! Its taken us 9 years to get even close to a correct diagnosis (or rather, multiple...). We're just now - with a much better-matching list of diagnosis - starting to turn things around. You have some plusses on your side - at least you're not currently fighting the school system - you're home-schooling (we didn't). But... you do need to know what you're dealing with. ADHD is going to be the first guess any evaluator will give you - probability of that being ONE factor, at least, is sky high as soon as you say "adopted at birth" (ADHD runs in families, and ADHD kids have a higher proportion of babies given up for adoption... do the math!) But ADHD doesn't begin to explain what you are living with. You're probably going to end up down one of two roads... 1) some form of developmental disorder, such as Aspergers - this would explain the hyper-sensitivities, melt-downs, and some of the other behavior... maybe most of it (we're not officially on that spectrum, so I'm not as up on the full details...) 2) some form of mental illness - BiPolar (BP), for example, or other things. Depending on what YOUR gut feel is, will probably drive what kind of evaluations to seek out and/or in what order. If my gut were developmental... I'd probably start with Occupational Therapist (OT) (occupational therapy) - they will test for things like motor coordination, environmental sensitivities, etc. This will NOT give you any diagnosis, but will give you some good rule-in/rule-out data which will help YOU know what direction you want to go, AND will be useful for whatever other professionals you pull in. Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations are usually fairly reasonable (its the therapy costs that add up!) If my gut were mental illness, I'd probably be starting with neuropsychologist or psychiatrist... (but this is Canada, and so... depends on what resources are available in your area) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New to group, been lurking for awhile
Top