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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 597801" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I would also start to seek full evaluations. If I have understood correctly in US the best way is neuropsychologist with some additional evaluations from Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech path to have a fuller picture (I'm not sure how psychiatric side is covered with that. Around here full evaluations tend to mean hospital evaluations made under neurologist and psychiatrist and neuropsychologist is only a part of it like also psychologist, Occupational Therapist (OT), Speech path, physiotherapist and few others. But here only MDs can diagnose anyway.) Your son is old enough that they should be able to have more nuanced picture than before. I know practises vary, but even here, there they tend to be conservative in diagnosing, they start to diagnose asperger and ADHD and other more subtle diagnosis around 5 and 6.</p><p></p><p>Of course lack of repetitive behaviours and obsessions may end up disqualifying him from Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) spectrum diagnose, but maybe evaluation results would still help to point you out to right direction on how to help him. And if services do need diagnosis, maybe you would be able to 'collect' enough of separate, smaller diagnosis to get him services he needs.</p><p></p><p>Mine is one of those, that have always had traits of this and that and never enough to qualify to diagnosis and there are plenty of kids like that. But often the approaches used for kids with diagnosis one only have some traits of, do work also work with these more evasive kids when it comes to diagnosing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 597801, member: 14557"] I would also start to seek full evaluations. If I have understood correctly in US the best way is neuropsychologist with some additional evaluations from Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech path to have a fuller picture (I'm not sure how psychiatric side is covered with that. Around here full evaluations tend to mean hospital evaluations made under neurologist and psychiatrist and neuropsychologist is only a part of it like also psychologist, Occupational Therapist (OT), Speech path, physiotherapist and few others. But here only MDs can diagnose anyway.) Your son is old enough that they should be able to have more nuanced picture than before. I know practises vary, but even here, there they tend to be conservative in diagnosing, they start to diagnose asperger and ADHD and other more subtle diagnosis around 5 and 6. Of course lack of repetitive behaviours and obsessions may end up disqualifying him from Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) spectrum diagnose, but maybe evaluation results would still help to point you out to right direction on how to help him. And if services do need diagnosis, maybe you would be able to 'collect' enough of separate, smaller diagnosis to get him services he needs. Mine is one of those, that have always had traits of this and that and never enough to qualify to diagnosis and there are plenty of kids like that. But often the approaches used for kids with diagnosis one only have some traits of, do work also work with these more evasive kids when it comes to diagnosing. [/QUOTE]
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