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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 380595" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi. Welcome to the board, but sorry you have to be here. </p><p>It sounds like this child has never been officially evaualted. I've adopted four kids (two asian and two black) and I evaluated all of them, even the PCs, because I wanted to see if anything was up. With my now seventeen year old, he had been exposed to drugs/alcohol and we got him at two and KNEW something was up so we started the path of getting help right away. I would not NOT not (can't stress this enough) try to diagnose a complicated, adopted kid myself (sounds like more than ODD or ADHD to me and could be partly drugs or partly genetic or VERY genetic).Has his IQ ever been tested? Even if he's a genius something isn't right and in my opinion a neuropsychologist evaluation would be a great idea (albeit a bit late in the game, but better than nothing). Then after the neuropsychologist evaluation I'd see a psychiatrist for medications. No educator on earth has the aptitude or training to tell you how to treat your son's behavioral disorders. That is not an educator's field and I get angry when they try to diagnose or tell us what to do with our kids...they can't. As for too many black kids being medicated...that could be so, but maybe Fred is one who really needs it. L., my own son who is African-American, was on medications for a while.</p><p></p><p>I know how difficult it is when a kid just puzzles you. Did you adopt him out of foster care? Anyway, good luck and in my opinion the best thing you can do is start evaluating him, not just for IQ but for psychiatric and neurological problems too. NeuroPsychs can be found at university clinics and are very thorough. You also want to make sure that Fred isn't abusing recreational drugs. If his birthparents have, it is genetically very bad for him to do it at all...he is more apt to become addicted (or so we've been told_). Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 380595, member: 1550"] Hi. Welcome to the board, but sorry you have to be here. It sounds like this child has never been officially evaualted. I've adopted four kids (two asian and two black) and I evaluated all of them, even the PCs, because I wanted to see if anything was up. With my now seventeen year old, he had been exposed to drugs/alcohol and we got him at two and KNEW something was up so we started the path of getting help right away. I would not NOT not (can't stress this enough) try to diagnose a complicated, adopted kid myself (sounds like more than ODD or ADHD to me and could be partly drugs or partly genetic or VERY genetic).Has his IQ ever been tested? Even if he's a genius something isn't right and in my opinion a neuropsychologist evaluation would be a great idea (albeit a bit late in the game, but better than nothing). Then after the neuropsychologist evaluation I'd see a psychiatrist for medications. No educator on earth has the aptitude or training to tell you how to treat your son's behavioral disorders. That is not an educator's field and I get angry when they try to diagnose or tell us what to do with our kids...they can't. As for too many black kids being medicated...that could be so, but maybe Fred is one who really needs it. L., my own son who is African-American, was on medications for a while. I know how difficult it is when a kid just puzzles you. Did you adopt him out of foster care? Anyway, good luck and in my opinion the best thing you can do is start evaluating him, not just for IQ but for psychiatric and neurological problems too. NeuroPsychs can be found at university clinics and are very thorough. You also want to make sure that Fred isn't abusing recreational drugs. If his birthparents have, it is genetically very bad for him to do it at all...he is more apt to become addicted (or so we've been told_). Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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