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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 403620" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>sounds like the poor kid does have everything going against him.</p><p> </p><p>i see you mentioned trying to get him to verbalize his feelings....my initial gut reaction would be that some of his behaviors are communicative, but for a HOH kid, verbalizing may not be enough. surely you have multiple communication modalities at your fingertips and i might look to introduce something else like an augmentative device or even a simple pecs system. i would guess he has some difficulties with the intangible, which in turn would make expressive language pretty difficult. if it were me (not knowing this boy of course, just based on what you said) i would put my energies into that kind of stuff and see if the behaviors level off.</p><p> </p><p>since you mentioned he was recently diagnosis'd with a hearing loss i'd also assume that there has been an awful lot of assumption on what this kid can and cannot do and what kind of compensory skills he has developed over the last 8 years. with his mother being young and lack of early intervention i would imagine there are learned behaviors that go along with any communication deficits that he compensates for by acting out.</p><p> </p><p>and i dont have to tell you that hearing aide refusal can be way more than behavioral....there could be improper fit, improper calibration, general uncomfortableness etc.</p><p> </p><p>of course, i could be way off base, but its kind of the same old manta....treat the underlying issues and see whats left. there certainly may be stand alone behavorial issues remaining (it sounds like he's already travelled one rough road, and it may be a complicated as in utero drug/alchohol exposure or a true mental illness) but he just might surprise you.</p><p> </p><p>i think its wonderful that you<em> asked</em> :-D</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 403620, member: 8831"] sounds like the poor kid does have everything going against him. i see you mentioned trying to get him to verbalize his feelings....my initial gut reaction would be that some of his behaviors are communicative, but for a HOH kid, verbalizing may not be enough. surely you have multiple communication modalities at your fingertips and i might look to introduce something else like an augmentative device or even a simple pecs system. i would guess he has some difficulties with the intangible, which in turn would make expressive language pretty difficult. if it were me (not knowing this boy of course, just based on what you said) i would put my energies into that kind of stuff and see if the behaviors level off. since you mentioned he was recently diagnosis'd with a hearing loss i'd also assume that there has been an awful lot of assumption on what this kid can and cannot do and what kind of compensory skills he has developed over the last 8 years. with his mother being young and lack of early intervention i would imagine there are learned behaviors that go along with any communication deficits that he compensates for by acting out. and i dont have to tell you that hearing aide refusal can be way more than behavioral....there could be improper fit, improper calibration, general uncomfortableness etc. of course, i could be way off base, but its kind of the same old manta....treat the underlying issues and see whats left. there certainly may be stand alone behavorial issues remaining (it sounds like he's already travelled one rough road, and it may be a complicated as in utero drug/alchohol exposure or a true mental illness) but he just might surprise you. i think its wonderful that you[I] asked[/I] :-D [/QUOTE]
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