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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 533871" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>It may end up so, that you never get that name. And you will manage. </p><p></p><p>We never got that magic word to explain it all with our difficult child and I'm not really expecting any more. We are also European and have more similar diagnostic practices to French than what most people here in the boards are living with. Our neurologists (who are usually the ones giving neurological diagnoses here, psychiatrists give neurological diagnoses mainly if they feel some psychiatric or psychological problem is a main one and neurological secondary. If other way around they tend to refer the patient to neurologist) don't like to diagnose kids under age of 5-6 with ADHD or Asperger. Classic autism is of course diagnosed earlier, but other than that they just go with specific services for problems (SPLs, OTs, PTs, play therapy etc.) and wait and see until kids is little bit older and it is easier to decide what is the real problem. And after reading these boards I think there I live they diagnosis dyslexia and dyspraxia more often, Asperger and ADHD are used to more wider category of problems, bipolar (for children) is definitely much less used etc. And many times it may not matter that much. </p><p></p><p>And then there are those who never really meet any exact criteria like my difficult child. He has traits from this and that, he has problems with many things, but never enough, serious enough or all the right ones to get some label. He was through the mill few times. Complete neuropsychological evaluations, never ending testing for this and that. And in the end all the neurologist had to say was: "People are different, some are just little more so." difficult child did have some services and some helped, some didn't, but the label he never got. And we learned to live with that.</p><p></p><p>What you tell about J's problems with remembering correct word in English, that of course could be a sign of something going on in his language development, but that too could be also very normal. Our kids (and also I myself) have also grew up with somewhat similar bilingual situation I understand J is growing up with and they at times mixed languages till rather old and they liked to use certain words from other language also while speaking other. In fact they still do. And so do I. I can speak both languages purely and without using the words or concepts from the other if I want to but in my everyday verbal communication I do tend to mix them somewhat, when talking with people who speak both languages. Some words are just so much better in other language. And I do remember that for my kids it took some time to learn to speak both languages purely and without mixing. And at five they still had at times trouble understanding that not all people spoke both language and understood. The concept of different languages took some time to develop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 533871, member: 14557"] It may end up so, that you never get that name. And you will manage. We never got that magic word to explain it all with our difficult child and I'm not really expecting any more. We are also European and have more similar diagnostic practices to French than what most people here in the boards are living with. Our neurologists (who are usually the ones giving neurological diagnoses here, psychiatrists give neurological diagnoses mainly if they feel some psychiatric or psychological problem is a main one and neurological secondary. If other way around they tend to refer the patient to neurologist) don't like to diagnose kids under age of 5-6 with ADHD or Asperger. Classic autism is of course diagnosed earlier, but other than that they just go with specific services for problems (SPLs, OTs, PTs, play therapy etc.) and wait and see until kids is little bit older and it is easier to decide what is the real problem. And after reading these boards I think there I live they diagnosis dyslexia and dyspraxia more often, Asperger and ADHD are used to more wider category of problems, bipolar (for children) is definitely much less used etc. And many times it may not matter that much. And then there are those who never really meet any exact criteria like my difficult child. He has traits from this and that, he has problems with many things, but never enough, serious enough or all the right ones to get some label. He was through the mill few times. Complete neuropsychological evaluations, never ending testing for this and that. And in the end all the neurologist had to say was: "People are different, some are just little more so." difficult child did have some services and some helped, some didn't, but the label he never got. And we learned to live with that. What you tell about J's problems with remembering correct word in English, that of course could be a sign of something going on in his language development, but that too could be also very normal. Our kids (and also I myself) have also grew up with somewhat similar bilingual situation I understand J is growing up with and they at times mixed languages till rather old and they liked to use certain words from other language also while speaking other. In fact they still do. And so do I. I can speak both languages purely and without using the words or concepts from the other if I want to but in my everyday verbal communication I do tend to mix them somewhat, when talking with people who speak both languages. Some words are just so much better in other language. And I do remember that for my kids it took some time to learn to speak both languages purely and without mixing. And at five they still had at times trouble understanding that not all people spoke both language and understood. The concept of different languages took some time to develop. [/QUOTE]
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