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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 498238" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>LOL! That is why I had to buy a new copy!</p><p></p><p>difficult child means gift from god which is the board way of describing our amazingly challenging "gifts"! The terms that are underlined....like difficult child....here.... are also defined by putting your cursor on them and the meaning will pop up next to a question mark.</p><p></p><p>I would still look at a neuropsychologist evaluation. the people you have seen are not experts in auditory processing problems, language processing problems, sensory integration disorder etc... and so the Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) (make sure they are people who work in that area, everyone has specialties) are really important too. Yes, many many of the difficult child's of the world are very very bright and fit ODD to a "T". It rarely has turned out for most that the ODD is stand alone though. It is usually due to a lack of skills for some reason. An inability to handle frustration tolerance or some subtle neurological thing and once that issue is targeted (one member here has been inspiring me lately because my son has many of those little issues that all when ticked away at improve things...and right now we are finally getting someone to address the lang. processing--and likely auditory processing---issues thru an FM system which also helps iwth adhd symptoms...again adhd may then be a symptom of the aud. processing issues and on and on)...</p><p></p><p>She has had years of her son having behavior issues too and now he has an FM system (auditory trainer) after being diagnosed with auditory processing disorder and he has remarkably done better. </p><p></p><p>My view, you never want to leave a stone un-turned. My son was treated for years for "anxiety" which he DOES have...but some of the symptoms were treated as only that and they turned out to be seizures. Can you imagine how awful I felt? HE not only didn't get the right treatment and was saying he wanted to die to get rid of the symptoms, but the medications they did give him turned out to be adding to aggression and as we finally found out he had an enzyme condition it was a medication that he could have died from because his body can't metabolize it correctly. </p><p></p><p>Really sounds scary and that couldn't possibly happen to me, right? But I am hoping that it is a hopeful thing for you... our story is actually not unique. Sadly (and I can tell you this from a professional perspective too) training for the more subtle things that our kids suffer from is sorely lacking in all professions from MD, to psychiatric, to all forms of rehab therapy. And the impact of these issues in often severe. Heck, in this day most psychiatrists and psychologists, dev and reg pediatricians STILL miss autism! </p><p></p><p>Hope you find your book, I do that all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 498238, member: 12886"] LOL! That is why I had to buy a new copy! difficult child means gift from god which is the board way of describing our amazingly challenging "gifts"! The terms that are underlined....like difficult child....here.... are also defined by putting your cursor on them and the meaning will pop up next to a question mark. I would still look at a neuropsychologist evaluation. the people you have seen are not experts in auditory processing problems, language processing problems, sensory integration disorder etc... and so the Occupational Therapist (OT) and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) (make sure they are people who work in that area, everyone has specialties) are really important too. Yes, many many of the difficult child's of the world are very very bright and fit ODD to a "T". It rarely has turned out for most that the ODD is stand alone though. It is usually due to a lack of skills for some reason. An inability to handle frustration tolerance or some subtle neurological thing and once that issue is targeted (one member here has been inspiring me lately because my son has many of those little issues that all when ticked away at improve things...and right now we are finally getting someone to address the lang. processing--and likely auditory processing---issues thru an FM system which also helps iwth adhd symptoms...again adhd may then be a symptom of the aud. processing issues and on and on)... She has had years of her son having behavior issues too and now he has an FM system (auditory trainer) after being diagnosed with auditory processing disorder and he has remarkably done better. My view, you never want to leave a stone un-turned. My son was treated for years for "anxiety" which he DOES have...but some of the symptoms were treated as only that and they turned out to be seizures. Can you imagine how awful I felt? HE not only didn't get the right treatment and was saying he wanted to die to get rid of the symptoms, but the medications they did give him turned out to be adding to aggression and as we finally found out he had an enzyme condition it was a medication that he could have died from because his body can't metabolize it correctly. Really sounds scary and that couldn't possibly happen to me, right? But I am hoping that it is a hopeful thing for you... our story is actually not unique. Sadly (and I can tell you this from a professional perspective too) training for the more subtle things that our kids suffer from is sorely lacking in all professions from MD, to psychiatric, to all forms of rehab therapy. And the impact of these issues in often severe. Heck, in this day most psychiatrists and psychologists, dev and reg pediatricians STILL miss autism! Hope you find your book, I do that all the time. [/QUOTE]
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