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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 306992" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Hi Rainey, I'm glad you found us.</p><p></p><p>You'll want to visit your pediatrician to request a referral for an evaluation. We always urge parents with children in this age group to push to include a developmental pediatrician or pediatric neuropsychologist as parents are reporting better results with those specialties. Often a pediatrician will want to refer to a child psychiatrist (who usually jumps to medications fairly quickly) or a behavioral therapist (who will start working on behaviors without having the full knowledge of what a full assessment can tell you). You may need to push but between the behaviors you're seeing and your mental health history it's important that it not be let go.</p><p></p><p>I noticed the head banging--does he do any other repetitive motions?</p><p>Are you seeing any Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)-type behaviors in him? How about obsessive interests?</p><p>What's his speech like? Any delays there, or conversely does it sound very advanced?</p><p></p><p>Sometimes all that constant motion is a result of something called Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Here's a link on that so you can see if anything rings a bell:</p><p><span style="color: #000066"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100820130047/http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100820130047/http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm</a></span></p><p></p><p>Hang in there--hopefully we can get you pointed in the right direction to get him some help. Oh, I meant to ask: is he attending a regular preschool program or is this an early childhood program for children with special needs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 306992, member: 701"] Hi Rainey, I'm glad you found us. You'll want to visit your pediatrician to request a referral for an evaluation. We always urge parents with children in this age group to push to include a developmental pediatrician or pediatric neuropsychologist as parents are reporting better results with those specialties. Often a pediatrician will want to refer to a child psychiatrist (who usually jumps to medications fairly quickly) or a behavioral therapist (who will start working on behaviors without having the full knowledge of what a full assessment can tell you). You may need to push but between the behaviors you're seeing and your mental health history it's important that it not be let go. I noticed the head banging--does he do any other repetitive motions? Are you seeing any Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)-type behaviors in him? How about obsessive interests? What's his speech like? Any delays there, or conversely does it sound very advanced? Sometimes all that constant motion is a result of something called Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Here's a link on that so you can see if anything rings a bell: [COLOR=#000066][url]https://web.archive.org/web/20100820130047/http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm[/url][/COLOR] Hang in there--hopefully we can get you pointed in the right direction to get him some help. Oh, I meant to ask: is he attending a regular preschool program or is this an early childhood program for children with special needs? [/QUOTE]
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