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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 58912" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Let me clarify this for you since MM's post and mine might appear to contradict each other. What we suggest is that you go for the most complete evaluation you can get so you aren't just treating symptoms such as behaviors and motor skills. Specialists can diagnose within their own specialty areas but only a professional such as a developmental pediatrician or a pediatric neuropsychologist can give a child (or rule out) a diagnosis of an underlying condition such as Asperger's. We really don't know what you are dealing with but think you need to get "the works". </p><p></p><p>See your pediatrician to request a multidisciplinary evaluation at a Children's Hospital or university hospital. This should include the specialist to evaluate for any overall condition, along with an Occupational Therapist (OT) (fine motor and sensory), speech/language (speech and language processing, social skills), audiology (to test for hearing), and PT if there are gross motor issues involved. Doctor's are often reluctant to do this and may need pushing. We see way too many kids coming through here who are having issues due to piecemeal evaluations instead of digging in deep and getting to the bottom of it</p><p></p><p>At the same time you want to get the ball rolling with the school district. Some of the assessments may overlap depending on the timing, but they can provide valuable information to supplement the private evaluation I've outlined above. The evaluaitons are free and by making a request in writing you have the first step done in determining whether your child qualifies for school services. Even by making this request now, if he were to qualify for support services at school, he probably wouldn't have any formal supports in place until well into first semester. If you delay and see how things go, it could be longer depending on how swamped the district is.</p><p></p><p>Since you asked for info to dig into what might be behind this, I also suggest you look into Tourette's Syndrome. Here's a good site for that:</p><p><a href="http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 58912, member: 701"] Let me clarify this for you since MM's post and mine might appear to contradict each other. What we suggest is that you go for the most complete evaluation you can get so you aren't just treating symptoms such as behaviors and motor skills. Specialists can diagnose within their own specialty areas but only a professional such as a developmental pediatrician or a pediatric neuropsychologist can give a child (or rule out) a diagnosis of an underlying condition such as Asperger's. We really don't know what you are dealing with but think you need to get "the works". See your pediatrician to request a multidisciplinary evaluation at a Children's Hospital or university hospital. This should include the specialist to evaluate for any overall condition, along with an Occupational Therapist (OT) (fine motor and sensory), speech/language (speech and language processing, social skills), audiology (to test for hearing), and PT if there are gross motor issues involved. Doctor's are often reluctant to do this and may need pushing. We see way too many kids coming through here who are having issues due to piecemeal evaluations instead of digging in deep and getting to the bottom of it At the same time you want to get the ball rolling with the school district. Some of the assessments may overlap depending on the timing, but they can provide valuable information to supplement the private evaluation I've outlined above. The evaluaitons are free and by making a request in writing you have the first step done in determining whether your child qualifies for school services. Even by making this request now, if he were to qualify for support services at school, he probably wouldn't have any formal supports in place until well into first semester. If you delay and see how things go, it could be longer depending on how swamped the district is. Since you asked for info to dig into what might be behind this, I also suggest you look into Tourette's Syndrome. Here's a good site for that: [url="http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/"]http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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