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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 522408" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>Ditto on the Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations. </p><p></p><p>Depression and anxiety are frequently secondary dxes in kids... rather than primary. The problem isn't that she is anxious or depressed... although that IS a problem. The real problem can be a wide range of other things. And until you can find and address these hidden, underlying issues, you will not succeed in treating the anxiety and.or depression.</p><p></p><p>We went through that. For way too many years.</p><p></p><p>Minor motor skills issues, and any sensory issues, can put a kid totally out of kilter. And school makes HUGE demands on motor skills, and is an atmosphere that tends to generate sensory overload. Even just KNOWING that you have the problem, really helps the kid. When they say "I can't" and the teacher says "You just have to try harder"... what if the kid is right? But without testing and reports, there's no way for the kid - or even the parent - to get much success pushing back at school.</p><p></p><p>Auditory issues are even bigger. These almost drove our whole family to insanity. difficult child has a less-common Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - one that they didn't even test for around here until a couple of years ago. And... it's so bad that he spends all his mental energy just trying to pick out the words the teacher is saying, and not getting anywhere trying to follow the meaning... and then would get in huge trouble for "not paying attention". His problem is "auditory figure ground" - he processes verbal language just fine, and his hearing is normal - but he can't "hear" when there is background noise... and classrooms have LOTS of background noise of the worst kind (paper rustling, pencil sharpeners, scratch of pencil on paper, the heating system... and that's just "legitimate" noise... )</p><p></p><p>Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) testing can be done independently of any comprehensive evaluation. And if they are done first, the person doing the comprenehive evaluation will encorporate these findings into the overall picture, so you win both ways.</p><p></p><p>Occupational Therapist (OT) - for both motor skills and sensory issues</p><p>Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) - for auditory processing, especially the ones not related to language processing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 522408, member: 13003"] Ditto on the Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluations. Depression and anxiety are frequently secondary dxes in kids... rather than primary. The problem isn't that she is anxious or depressed... although that IS a problem. The real problem can be a wide range of other things. And until you can find and address these hidden, underlying issues, you will not succeed in treating the anxiety and.or depression. We went through that. For way too many years. Minor motor skills issues, and any sensory issues, can put a kid totally out of kilter. And school makes HUGE demands on motor skills, and is an atmosphere that tends to generate sensory overload. Even just KNOWING that you have the problem, really helps the kid. When they say "I can't" and the teacher says "You just have to try harder"... what if the kid is right? But without testing and reports, there's no way for the kid - or even the parent - to get much success pushing back at school. Auditory issues are even bigger. These almost drove our whole family to insanity. difficult child has a less-common Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - one that they didn't even test for around here until a couple of years ago. And... it's so bad that he spends all his mental energy just trying to pick out the words the teacher is saying, and not getting anywhere trying to follow the meaning... and then would get in huge trouble for "not paying attention". His problem is "auditory figure ground" - he processes verbal language just fine, and his hearing is normal - but he can't "hear" when there is background noise... and classrooms have LOTS of background noise of the worst kind (paper rustling, pencil sharpeners, scratch of pencil on paper, the heating system... and that's just "legitimate" noise... ) Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) testing can be done independently of any comprehensive evaluation. And if they are done first, the person doing the comprenehive evaluation will encorporate these findings into the overall picture, so you win both ways. Occupational Therapist (OT) - for both motor skills and sensory issues Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) - for auditory processing, especially the ones not related to language processing. [/QUOTE]
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