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Good news from difficult child 2's teacher. I am so happy!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 525274" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>You're still in the evaluation process, right?</p><p>In that case... please consider having him evaluated by an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for auditory processing disorders - including the less-well-known ones like auditory figure ground.</p><p></p><p>Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) symptoms are almost identical to ADHD symptoms... the person may have either diagnosis, or both dxes. (difficult child has both.)</p><p></p><p>APDs also impact social skills.</p><p></p><p>If it is something like auditory figure ground that is causing difficulties... this means the person doesn't filter sound well. So... one-on-one, quiet room... they do fairly well (depending on other dxes...), but... regular classroom? any classroom? playground? noise, noise, more noise... and nothing "registers".</p><p></p><p>APDs are not treated by medications - none exist. It's all accommodations and interventions, but these WORK. Even just understanding what is really happening, is huge... And no, they can't "just try harder". There IS no brainpower left to process what little does get into the brain, because the poor brain is fighting just to even figure out that words are being spoken.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 525274, member: 13003"] You're still in the evaluation process, right? In that case... please consider having him evaluated by an Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for auditory processing disorders - including the less-well-known ones like auditory figure ground. Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) symptoms are almost identical to ADHD symptoms... the person may have either diagnosis, or both dxes. (difficult child has both.) APDs also impact social skills. If it is something like auditory figure ground that is causing difficulties... this means the person doesn't filter sound well. So... one-on-one, quiet room... they do fairly well (depending on other dxes...), but... regular classroom? any classroom? playground? noise, noise, more noise... and nothing "registers". APDs are not treated by medications - none exist. It's all accommodations and interventions, but these WORK. Even just understanding what is really happening, is huge... And no, they can't "just try harder". There IS no brainpower left to process what little does get into the brain, because the poor brain is fighting just to even figure out that words are being spoken. [/QUOTE]
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