TerryJ2
Well-Known Member
We did our followup with-the neuropsychologist. We were referred to a speech path, who found nothing abnormal, and then went back to report. Of course, the ofc never faxed a copy of anything so the dr had to take my word for it. Very unprofessional! He said he's been dealing with-that sort of headache for about 12 yrs. Sigh.
I expressed the hope that difficult child would be off of his Adderal by the time he's 12 (We have several friends whose kids "outgrew" their ADHD and they are doing exceptionally well) but this dr said 90% of ADHD is lifetime, difficult child would need medications until his early 20s at least, and he rattled off a whole slew of nasty statistics about increased pregnancy risks, car accidents, etc.
I guess he didn't want me to get my hopes up but he didn't have to drag me to Hades and back, either!
After we left, difficult child was miffed because the dr had mentioned an inability to finish homework. (That was more to his level, LOL!) He said he always finishes his homework and doesn't need his pills... sigh... and I told him he has made great strides and he's doing very well and that the dr was just quoting statistics and didn't mean that he didn't finish his homework.
Funny the things kids think is important ...
So, at this point we're going to focus on the child psychologist and behaviors, since the medications are working so well.
It's funny, how ea specialty has such a narrow view of different disorders. You have to take everything with-a grain of salt.
The main thing is that difficult child has no glaring speech cognition issues, and once again, everything, aside from the ADHD, is too subtle to p/u on standard testing.
It's just a lot of hard work on our parts.
I'm taking a deep breath and shoring up my resources ...
:warrior:
I expressed the hope that difficult child would be off of his Adderal by the time he's 12 (We have several friends whose kids "outgrew" their ADHD and they are doing exceptionally well) but this dr said 90% of ADHD is lifetime, difficult child would need medications until his early 20s at least, and he rattled off a whole slew of nasty statistics about increased pregnancy risks, car accidents, etc.
I guess he didn't want me to get my hopes up but he didn't have to drag me to Hades and back, either!
After we left, difficult child was miffed because the dr had mentioned an inability to finish homework. (That was more to his level, LOL!) He said he always finishes his homework and doesn't need his pills... sigh... and I told him he has made great strides and he's doing very well and that the dr was just quoting statistics and didn't mean that he didn't finish his homework.
Funny the things kids think is important ...
So, at this point we're going to focus on the child psychologist and behaviors, since the medications are working so well.
It's funny, how ea specialty has such a narrow view of different disorders. You have to take everything with-a grain of salt.
The main thing is that difficult child has no glaring speech cognition issues, and once again, everything, aside from the ADHD, is too subtle to p/u on standard testing.
It's just a lot of hard work on our parts.
I'm taking a deep breath and shoring up my resources ...
:warrior: