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<blockquote data-quote="casee" data-source="post: 503820" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Thanks! He does have sensory issues. His dad and I talk about that a lot actually and have been considering asking his pedi for a referral for a sensory evaluation. We met with the child psychologist on staff at our docs office and are considering a psychiatric evaluation (we are a little reluctant to do medications but are beginning to think about the reality not using them). Other than that we have not had many evaluations done. A lot of the people we have talked to are reluctant to do evaluations or make diagnoses because they feel he is really young.</p><p></p><p>As for school, he has trouble visually recognizing things. He can spell his name and recignize the letters in his own name but no other letters. He has the same issue with numbers. His teacher reports that he tries really hard but that it takes so much out of him that he becomes physically exhausted and sometimes they have to intervene and make him stop working on things because he has given it everything he has. He has had some behavioral problems at school as well. He was sent to the principal's office for playing with the light switch in the bathroom and climbing on the toilets, for hitting another kid during a sports game, and for peeing on the wall in the bathroom. He gets purple and yellow (which is his schools behavior system) a lot for "blurting" as he puts it. They are going to be testing his speech and language processing to see if there is an issue there.</p><p></p><p>AS far as the sensory stuff, he hates tohave his shirt on or socks. he cannot stand the sensation of being wet and will often change his clothes if there is even the slightest dampness to it. Everything he does is rough. He slams everything. He doesn't respond to pain normally. Small injuries (paper cuts, hang nails) will result in endless crying but major injuries (like smacking his head off of something) he doesn't even acknowledge. He likes to have a blanket around his head when he sleeps and often rubs the silky part of his blanket.</p><p></p><p>The two boys do get along at times and they do play together. But it is mainly my son directing the play. My fiance's son does not engage in imaginative play unless my son lays out the plot or idea for him. He really doesn't engage in much that is not related to sports somehow.</p><p></p><p>We have started a therapeutic curriculum with him called Helping the Non-compliant Child (HNC) and we are hopeful. The idea is to recognize and praise positive behavior and ignore the negative attempts to get it. We are in the initial stage of learning how to engage in play with him that he can direct and we can recognize and praise the positives. We have been at it for 3 weeks. It is hard to try to point out positives when he is being difficult but I know that it is important to let him know that he is a good kid. I guess that is what I worry about the most - that somehow, with all the negativity, he will come to think that he is the "bad kid" and not the great little boy that I see a lot of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="casee, post: 503820, member: 13739"] Thanks! He does have sensory issues. His dad and I talk about that a lot actually and have been considering asking his pedi for a referral for a sensory evaluation. We met with the child psychologist on staff at our docs office and are considering a psychiatric evaluation (we are a little reluctant to do medications but are beginning to think about the reality not using them). Other than that we have not had many evaluations done. A lot of the people we have talked to are reluctant to do evaluations or make diagnoses because they feel he is really young. As for school, he has trouble visually recognizing things. He can spell his name and recignize the letters in his own name but no other letters. He has the same issue with numbers. His teacher reports that he tries really hard but that it takes so much out of him that he becomes physically exhausted and sometimes they have to intervene and make him stop working on things because he has given it everything he has. He has had some behavioral problems at school as well. He was sent to the principal's office for playing with the light switch in the bathroom and climbing on the toilets, for hitting another kid during a sports game, and for peeing on the wall in the bathroom. He gets purple and yellow (which is his schools behavior system) a lot for "blurting" as he puts it. They are going to be testing his speech and language processing to see if there is an issue there. AS far as the sensory stuff, he hates tohave his shirt on or socks. he cannot stand the sensation of being wet and will often change his clothes if there is even the slightest dampness to it. Everything he does is rough. He slams everything. He doesn't respond to pain normally. Small injuries (paper cuts, hang nails) will result in endless crying but major injuries (like smacking his head off of something) he doesn't even acknowledge. He likes to have a blanket around his head when he sleeps and often rubs the silky part of his blanket. The two boys do get along at times and they do play together. But it is mainly my son directing the play. My fiance's son does not engage in imaginative play unless my son lays out the plot or idea for him. He really doesn't engage in much that is not related to sports somehow. We have started a therapeutic curriculum with him called Helping the Non-compliant Child (HNC) and we are hopeful. The idea is to recognize and praise positive behavior and ignore the negative attempts to get it. We are in the initial stage of learning how to engage in play with him that he can direct and we can recognize and praise the positives. We have been at it for 3 weeks. It is hard to try to point out positives when he is being difficult but I know that it is important to let him know that he is a good kid. I guess that is what I worry about the most - that somehow, with all the negativity, he will come to think that he is the "bad kid" and not the great little boy that I see a lot of the time. [/QUOTE]
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