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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 270938" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>I just went back and read over your earlier comments. Is the doctor/psychologist that is doing the assessment a school district employee? If not employed by the district who is paying for the evaluation?</p><p> </p><p>If I had a child who had some questionable, possibly ODDish behaviors in school I would be taking her to a dr of my choosing and I would pay for the evaluation. After the evaluation was over, I would be meeting with the doctor on my own (not with school staff present) and then I would review his/her written report. Only after seeing the written report and if I agreed with the findings and recommendations would I hand deliver a copy to the school. Under no circumstances would I allow a doctor I had hired to present findings at an IEP meeting. Even when we were using a consultant hired by the school district, she met with us first to go through her observations before presenting them to the team. I would not trust a school district evaluation to label a child with ODD.</p><p> </p><p>Some kids with ODD hold it together at home and flare up at school. For some it's the opposite and some are equal opportunity difficult. It sounds like what you're dealing with at home is pretty typical kid stuff. But I'm not sure what you're describing at school is really ODD if that's the extent of it. 5 year olds with ODD usually have a really serious knee jerk reaction to all people and things pertaining to authority and can be seriously hard to handle. </p><p> </p><p>Now if she's having a hard time paying attention maybe that needs to be looked at closer, but that's not ODD.</p><p> </p><p>Has her hearing been checked recently? You also may want to read up on something called Auditory Processing Disorder as that can cause classroom attentiveness problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 270938, member: 701"] I just went back and read over your earlier comments. Is the doctor/psychologist that is doing the assessment a school district employee? If not employed by the district who is paying for the evaluation? If I had a child who had some questionable, possibly ODDish behaviors in school I would be taking her to a dr of my choosing and I would pay for the evaluation. After the evaluation was over, I would be meeting with the doctor on my own (not with school staff present) and then I would review his/her written report. Only after seeing the written report and if I agreed with the findings and recommendations would I hand deliver a copy to the school. Under no circumstances would I allow a doctor I had hired to present findings at an IEP meeting. Even when we were using a consultant hired by the school district, she met with us first to go through her observations before presenting them to the team. I would not trust a school district evaluation to label a child with ODD. Some kids with ODD hold it together at home and flare up at school. For some it's the opposite and some are equal opportunity difficult. It sounds like what you're dealing with at home is pretty typical kid stuff. But I'm not sure what you're describing at school is really ODD if that's the extent of it. 5 year olds with ODD usually have a really serious knee jerk reaction to all people and things pertaining to authority and can be seriously hard to handle. Now if she's having a hard time paying attention maybe that needs to be looked at closer, but that's not ODD. Has her hearing been checked recently? You also may want to read up on something called Auditory Processing Disorder as that can cause classroom attentiveness problems. [/QUOTE]
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