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<blockquote data-quote="soapbox" data-source="post: 598313" data-attributes="member: 13003"><p>He's five? Starting school.... and everything is "blowing up"?</p><p>Sounds familiar.</p><p> </p><p>Has he ever had a formal Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills issues? Either of those can drive a kid around the bend, especially once school starts... and kids on the spectrum often have problems with both. Occupational Therapist (OT) also has therapies, interventions and accommodations that help. </p><p> </p><p>He's too young to test for the full spectrum of APDs, but those may be part of the picture, too, especially auditory figure ground and/or auditory discrimination. These make it much harder to function in "noisy" environments... not because they can't HEAR (often they have average or above average hearing) but because they can't distinguish the sounds they need to hear. So, it takes massive effort just to try to hear... leaving no brainpower left for processing what was heard. Which then leads to all sorts of troubles... and it isn't the kid's fault at all. Does he do better one-on-one in a quiet environment? Is he worse at the end of the day than in the morning, worse on Friday than on Monday? </p><p> </p><p>Testing for APDs is usually done about age 7, but if you think it might be a factor, the interventions and accommodations can start at any age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soapbox, post: 598313, member: 13003"] He's five? Starting school.... and everything is "blowing up"? Sounds familiar. Has he ever had a formal Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills issues? Either of those can drive a kid around the bend, especially once school starts... and kids on the spectrum often have problems with both. Occupational Therapist (OT) also has therapies, interventions and accommodations that help. He's too young to test for the full spectrum of APDs, but those may be part of the picture, too, especially auditory figure ground and/or auditory discrimination. These make it much harder to function in "noisy" environments... not because they can't HEAR (often they have average or above average hearing) but because they can't distinguish the sounds they need to hear. So, it takes massive effort just to try to hear... leaving no brainpower left for processing what was heard. Which then leads to all sorts of troubles... and it isn't the kid's fault at all. Does he do better one-on-one in a quiet environment? Is he worse at the end of the day than in the morning, worse on Friday than on Monday? Testing for APDs is usually done about age 7, but if you think it might be a factor, the interventions and accommodations can start at any age. [/QUOTE]
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