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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 21951" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Michelle, before I forget, if your last name is included in your board nickname, please make a change in name for privacy sake.</p><p></p><p>Based on everything you've mentioned here, I do recommend you push your doctor for a recommendation. The typical route that pediatricians go for when children are displaying these sorts of behavioral issues are to refer to counselors, therapists, regular child psychologists, and/or child psychiatrists. You don't want to go any of those routes. What you want is a multidisciplary evaluation that includes an evaluation by a developmental and behavioral pediatrician or a pediatric neuropsychologist. Doctors are pretty reluctant to make these referals but I'm going to give you some help with that later</p><p></p><p>We are all just parents here so take everything we say as parental advice and not medical, diagnostic etc. There could be a lot of things going on here but the fact that there are issues both in preschool and at home suggests that this is more than a passing phase to me. The place I'd recommend you start your research is a condition called Asperger's Syndrome which is at the high end of the Autistic Spectrum. Children with AS are almost always missed by doctors when they are very young and as a result their problems tend to get worse because the adults in their lives don't understand them +/or their unique needs. They frequently are very bright, talk like adults from a young age, and display some serious behavioral issues. Some of them will appear pretty social but as they mature have difficulty interacting appropriately. I have a child who fell short of meeting the diagnostic criteria for AS but I was glad to have even that much to go on because it has helped me enormously in helping him.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/" target="_blank">http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/</a></p><p></p><p>Again, I want to emphasize that this is just a starting point for your research and after looking around you may decide you need to look in a different direction. If there's any hint that a child might fall in the region of the spectrum we usually suggest parents look there first because it's easier to sort out than the other disorders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 21951, member: 701"] Michelle, before I forget, if your last name is included in your board nickname, please make a change in name for privacy sake. Based on everything you've mentioned here, I do recommend you push your doctor for a recommendation. The typical route that pediatricians go for when children are displaying these sorts of behavioral issues are to refer to counselors, therapists, regular child psychologists, and/or child psychiatrists. You don't want to go any of those routes. What you want is a multidisciplary evaluation that includes an evaluation by a developmental and behavioral pediatrician or a pediatric neuropsychologist. Doctors are pretty reluctant to make these referals but I'm going to give you some help with that later We are all just parents here so take everything we say as parental advice and not medical, diagnostic etc. There could be a lot of things going on here but the fact that there are issues both in preschool and at home suggests that this is more than a passing phase to me. The place I'd recommend you start your research is a condition called Asperger's Syndrome which is at the high end of the Autistic Spectrum. Children with AS are almost always missed by doctors when they are very young and as a result their problems tend to get worse because the adults in their lives don't understand them +/or their unique needs. They frequently are very bright, talk like adults from a young age, and display some serious behavioral issues. Some of them will appear pretty social but as they mature have difficulty interacting appropriately. I have a child who fell short of meeting the diagnostic criteria for AS but I was glad to have even that much to go on because it has helped me enormously in helping him. [URL]http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/[/URL] Again, I want to emphasize that this is just a starting point for your research and after looking around you may decide you need to look in a different direction. If there's any hint that a child might fall in the region of the spectrum we usually suggest parents look there first because it's easier to sort out than the other disorders. [/QUOTE]
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