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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 474554" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thank you for explaining more, farmhousegirl. To be honest, I felt very sad as I read your post. His birth mother used meth during the pregnancy? So... all the developmental delay, aggression, and so on are explained. This is a little boy with very clear special needs who should be receiving very targeted help. Did you know about the birth history when you adopted him? All this must be a shock if you did not know or realise the implications (and who does at first?) I am a little confused about schooling - is he in an ordinary school and if so how does he manage? </p><p>It must all be very wearing and so hard for you and all your family. At the same time it is clearly not your son's "fault" - it is easy to see and accept that with developmental delay, less so with aggression, I think. You must go back for more evaluations and clearer diagnoses. I don't know the American system well but does he have an IEP (sorry, you may have said these things in your initial post, which I have not reread)? I agree absolutely that you will need to parent this child differently.</p><p>I very much hope you can get better and more targeted help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 474554, member: 11227"] Thank you for explaining more, farmhousegirl. To be honest, I felt very sad as I read your post. His birth mother used meth during the pregnancy? So... all the developmental delay, aggression, and so on are explained. This is a little boy with very clear special needs who should be receiving very targeted help. Did you know about the birth history when you adopted him? All this must be a shock if you did not know or realise the implications (and who does at first?) I am a little confused about schooling - is he in an ordinary school and if so how does he manage? It must all be very wearing and so hard for you and all your family. At the same time it is clearly not your son's "fault" - it is easy to see and accept that with developmental delay, less so with aggression, I think. You must go back for more evaluations and clearer diagnoses. I don't know the American system well but does he have an IEP (sorry, you may have said these things in your initial post, which I have not reread)? I agree absolutely that you will need to parent this child differently. I very much hope you can get better and more targeted help. [/QUOTE]
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