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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 563124" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Hi, Waldo,</p><p></p><p>Us Canadians don't have the legal teeth to force schools to do anything. been there done that. And your story is classic... they will push you off until the child is "too old" for certain resources.</p><p></p><p>You're in Ontario - I'm not, but others on this board are, so they may chime in later withspecifics that work for Ontario. </p><p></p><p>We had to get our evaluations done through the medical system - and it was VERY difficult to get. Your son needs a comprehensive evaluation. You need to know what ALL of his issues and challenges are. The "neuropsychs" that are recommended by US board members, are generally not available in Canada in the same way that they are in the US. We got one evaluation done through a child behavioural/developmental clinic at a teaching hospital, another through mental health. But to get into mental health, we had to wait until the problems multiplied and compounded and there ended up BEING mental health issues on top of everything else. And that is NOT recommended. You need answers NOW.</p><p></p><p>If school were to do the testing, it would be incomplete - we had one of those - but maybe a starting place. What you would want in that case is an Ed psychiatric evaluation. However... it is definitely limited in scope. It "might" pick up on the learning disabilities... possibly dysgraphia and/or dyslexia from what you describe (although if reading is not a problem, dysgraphia is more likely). OR, instead of/as well as dysgraphia, possibly Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (a motor skills disorder). </p><p></p><p>Hmmm... can you tell I'm thinking <em>while</em> I'm writing? Why don't you pop over to the CanChild website (<a href="http://www.canchild.ca" target="_blank">www.canchild.ca</a>)? Run by research OTs at McMasters Univ. Really good info on kids who "can't write". For motor skills issues in particular, you might want to look into an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation. It was the first evaluation we had done that actually pin-pointed specific problems needing specific interventions (in this case, technology). We paid for ours privately (ouch), not sure how to get it through the system other than through a comprehensive evaluation team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 563124, member: 11791"] Hi, Waldo, Us Canadians don't have the legal teeth to force schools to do anything. been there done that. And your story is classic... they will push you off until the child is "too old" for certain resources. You're in Ontario - I'm not, but others on this board are, so they may chime in later withspecifics that work for Ontario. We had to get our evaluations done through the medical system - and it was VERY difficult to get. Your son needs a comprehensive evaluation. You need to know what ALL of his issues and challenges are. The "neuropsychs" that are recommended by US board members, are generally not available in Canada in the same way that they are in the US. We got one evaluation done through a child behavioural/developmental clinic at a teaching hospital, another through mental health. But to get into mental health, we had to wait until the problems multiplied and compounded and there ended up BEING mental health issues on top of everything else. And that is NOT recommended. You need answers NOW. If school were to do the testing, it would be incomplete - we had one of those - but maybe a starting place. What you would want in that case is an Ed psychiatric evaluation. However... it is definitely limited in scope. It "might" pick up on the learning disabilities... possibly dysgraphia and/or dyslexia from what you describe (although if reading is not a problem, dysgraphia is more likely). OR, instead of/as well as dysgraphia, possibly Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (a motor skills disorder). Hmmm... can you tell I'm thinking [I]while[/I] I'm writing? Why don't you pop over to the CanChild website ([URL="http://www.canchild.ca"]www.canchild.ca[/URL])? Run by research OTs at McMasters Univ. Really good info on kids who "can't write". For motor skills issues in particular, you might want to look into an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation. It was the first evaluation we had done that actually pin-pointed specific problems needing specific interventions (in this case, technology). We paid for ours privately (ouch), not sure how to get it through the system other than through a comprehensive evaluation team. [/QUOTE]
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