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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 519673" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>He's "only" 11.</p><p>So, I'm going to play dumb, and ask... even if I've asked before, because I don't remember.... but I'm asking because we went through extremes with difficult child until we got to the bottom of things... and it "only" took us 10 years (until difficult child was into high school).</p><p></p><p>Has he ever had an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for motor skills and sensory issues? If not, push for it. Half the kids with ADHD, have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (a formal set of motor skills problems). </p><p>Has he ever had a FULL evaluation by Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)? Not just for "hearing" and language, but for the more hidden types of APDs like auditory figure ground? 70% of kids with ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), also have APDs, for starters. And... symptoms for APDs look very, very similar to symptoms for ADHD. Maybe he isn't even ADHD at all... maybe it's "just" something like Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)? (this was the make-or-break diagnosis for our difficult child... the one single item that was pushing him totally off the deep end... for YEARS)</p><p></p><p>We had to pay out of pocket for both. And it still took two sets of evaluations, 3 years apart, to find what we needed. I'd do it again in a flash, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 519673, member: 11791"] He's "only" 11. So, I'm going to play dumb, and ask... even if I've asked before, because I don't remember.... but I'm asking because we went through extremes with difficult child until we got to the bottom of things... and it "only" took us 10 years (until difficult child was into high school). Has he ever had an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for motor skills and sensory issues? If not, push for it. Half the kids with ADHD, have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (a formal set of motor skills problems). Has he ever had a FULL evaluation by Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)? Not just for "hearing" and language, but for the more hidden types of APDs like auditory figure ground? 70% of kids with ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), also have APDs, for starters. And... symptoms for APDs look very, very similar to symptoms for ADHD. Maybe he isn't even ADHD at all... maybe it's "just" something like Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)? (this was the make-or-break diagnosis for our difficult child... the one single item that was pushing him totally off the deep end... for YEARS) We had to pay out of pocket for both. And it still took two sets of evaluations, 3 years apart, to find what we needed. I'd do it again in a flash, though. [/QUOTE]
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