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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 539160" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>woah...slow the train down! Welcome to the board by the way and I am so sorry you had to find us. </p><p></p><p>If your darling little girl was molested at that young age then it is entirely likely she is suffering from PTSD and not ODD. Your family history and genetic tree may give her the genes to inherit bipolar or ADHD but that doesnt mean that she has it right now. The school cannot tell you that she obviously has it and that you have to go get it diagnosed and have her put on medication. That is patently illegal. They can offer to evaluate her for an IEP for special education but they are not doctors and cannot diagnose. Special Education has nothing to do with being smart. Gifted students are also in Special Education. </p><p></p><p>I get the feeling you live in a small town if you have to teleconference to a psychiatrist. Is there anyway you can call and get put on the list to have your daughter seen at a Children's hospital in a bigger city and then just go there for one or two days and see if you could stay at a Ronald McDonald house? Or even manage to pull the money for a motel out of the budget somehow. If you could get a good working diagnosis for her right now then maybe whoever is handling her care now could continue with that information. </p><p></p><p>Also if nothing else, do you have access to somewhere that offers some sort of play therapy for a child that young? Normal therapy doesnt work well in my experience. Play therapy can get through to them better. I do believe PTSD could cause many of the same issues you are seeing because I have also dealt with that for years and I was abused at around 3/4. Kids that age act out with anger, inattention and all sorts of ways because they have no other ways of being able to voice what happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 539160, member: 1514"] woah...slow the train down! Welcome to the board by the way and I am so sorry you had to find us. If your darling little girl was molested at that young age then it is entirely likely she is suffering from PTSD and not ODD. Your family history and genetic tree may give her the genes to inherit bipolar or ADHD but that doesnt mean that she has it right now. The school cannot tell you that she obviously has it and that you have to go get it diagnosed and have her put on medication. That is patently illegal. They can offer to evaluate her for an IEP for special education but they are not doctors and cannot diagnose. Special Education has nothing to do with being smart. Gifted students are also in Special Education. I get the feeling you live in a small town if you have to teleconference to a psychiatrist. Is there anyway you can call and get put on the list to have your daughter seen at a Children's hospital in a bigger city and then just go there for one or two days and see if you could stay at a Ronald McDonald house? Or even manage to pull the money for a motel out of the budget somehow. If you could get a good working diagnosis for her right now then maybe whoever is handling her care now could continue with that information. Also if nothing else, do you have access to somewhere that offers some sort of play therapy for a child that young? Normal therapy doesnt work well in my experience. Play therapy can get through to them better. I do believe PTSD could cause many of the same issues you are seeing because I have also dealt with that for years and I was abused at around 3/4. Kids that age act out with anger, inattention and all sorts of ways because they have no other ways of being able to voice what happened. [/QUOTE]
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