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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 90201" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Hi, Katherine, welcome.</p><p></p><p>I have a few things for you to think about - if the medications for ADHD are not working, perhaps it is not ADHD. With my boys, there is enough ADHD in their spectrum of 'things' to make medication workable, but the main presenting diagnosis is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). When difficult child 1 was first diagnosis'ed as ADHD when he was 6, it only explained a fraction of what we saw. It took another ten years to get the Asperger's diagnosis, which explains a lot more. He could have done with a lot of help over that time - I'd been asking questions and getting fobbed off by doctors and other experts for years, since well before school.</p><p></p><p>Behaviour issues - lay your hands on a copy of "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. It made a huge difference to us and how we handled the kids, especially difficult child 3 (a bit late for the others). </p><p></p><p>And the next step - do your darndest to get an appointment with a neuropsychologist, as Sharon recommended. We hunted around to find someone who would see all our kids at the same time, at least for an initial consult. We felt there were things common to all as well as individual differences and we wanted whoever we saw to get a comprehensive picture before he dug deeper into each individual. </p><p></p><p>You have one child with a diagnosis of autism, which makes it a lot more likely that one or more of the other kids will have autism traits. Maybe not enough for a diagnosis, but if you take that approach in handling them you can often do a lot better. And if there is enough for a diagnosis of sorts, somewhere on the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) scale, it can help you understand and also help get more support in place for school, to make things easier all round.</p><p></p><p>And if it turns out to be something else again - it's still better to know, so you can begin to handle it more appropriately.</p><p></p><p>Good luck, keep us posted on how you get on.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 90201, member: 1991"] Hi, Katherine, welcome. I have a few things for you to think about - if the medications for ADHD are not working, perhaps it is not ADHD. With my boys, there is enough ADHD in their spectrum of 'things' to make medication workable, but the main presenting diagnosis is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). When difficult child 1 was first diagnosis'ed as ADHD when he was 6, it only explained a fraction of what we saw. It took another ten years to get the Asperger's diagnosis, which explains a lot more. He could have done with a lot of help over that time - I'd been asking questions and getting fobbed off by doctors and other experts for years, since well before school. Behaviour issues - lay your hands on a copy of "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. It made a huge difference to us and how we handled the kids, especially difficult child 3 (a bit late for the others). And the next step - do your darndest to get an appointment with a neuropsychologist, as Sharon recommended. We hunted around to find someone who would see all our kids at the same time, at least for an initial consult. We felt there were things common to all as well as individual differences and we wanted whoever we saw to get a comprehensive picture before he dug deeper into each individual. You have one child with a diagnosis of autism, which makes it a lot more likely that one or more of the other kids will have autism traits. Maybe not enough for a diagnosis, but if you take that approach in handling them you can often do a lot better. And if there is enough for a diagnosis of sorts, somewhere on the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) scale, it can help you understand and also help get more support in place for school, to make things easier all round. And if it turns out to be something else again - it's still better to know, so you can begin to handle it more appropriately. Good luck, keep us posted on how you get on. Marg [/QUOTE]
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