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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 596442" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Here's what we did: do your own research. Don't just look up clinical data, read real-live biographies of people with various dxes. For example, books by Temple Grandin (Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)) and John Elder Robinson (Asperger's) provide an insight into how those dxes operate <em>in one person's case</em>. There are some out there for various MI and mood disorders, etc. Each person is different, but... we found that the clinical descriptions didn't seem to fit but the real-life examples of how they think... was a much closer fit. </p><p> </p><p>Start a parent report (it's somewhere in the site resources). Pull together all your observations etc., all prior data, what's been tried, what worked/didn't work/why, etc. </p><p> </p><p>Pick up "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. It's a different approach to challenging kids.</p><p> </p><p>Some specialists are easier to get in to see than others. Any chance of an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for motor skills and sensory issues? Those challenges can result in various mysterious melt-downs that don't make sense ... until we understand what the "overload" triggers are. It's not usually one particular trigger, but an accumulation, and one final event "seems" to trigger the melt-down but really, it's a lot more than the "trigger".</p><p> </p><p>Is he in pre-school? i.e. did the challenges seem to ramp up with the start of school?</p><p>OR... is your home fairly noisy and chaotic?</p><p>The reason I'm asking is... APDs don't really show up much until toward school age (can't be diagnosed accurately until about age 7). If he has problems with auditory figure ground or auditory discrimination, then group environments make 'hearing' a major challenge, and can make effective listening almost impossible. This makes the child seem oppositional when in fact, they are not getting the message... and/or are mentally exhausted from trying to get the messages all day every day.</p><p> </p><p>Just some ideas...</p><p> </p><p>Tell us more about him - things he likes to do, what he does with same-age peers, any special interests, any talents... the more you tell us, the more the rest of us might recognize some trends too... not that we can diagnosis, but it might help you and the pediatrician figure some things out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 596442, member: 11791"] Here's what we did: do your own research. Don't just look up clinical data, read real-live biographies of people with various dxes. For example, books by Temple Grandin (Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)) and John Elder Robinson (Asperger's) provide an insight into how those dxes operate [I]in one person's case[/I]. There are some out there for various MI and mood disorders, etc. Each person is different, but... we found that the clinical descriptions didn't seem to fit but the real-life examples of how they think... was a much closer fit. Start a parent report (it's somewhere in the site resources). Pull together all your observations etc., all prior data, what's been tried, what worked/didn't work/why, etc. Pick up "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene. It's a different approach to challenging kids. Some specialists are easier to get in to see than others. Any chance of an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for motor skills and sensory issues? Those challenges can result in various mysterious melt-downs that don't make sense ... until we understand what the "overload" triggers are. It's not usually one particular trigger, but an accumulation, and one final event "seems" to trigger the melt-down but really, it's a lot more than the "trigger". Is he in pre-school? i.e. did the challenges seem to ramp up with the start of school? OR... is your home fairly noisy and chaotic? The reason I'm asking is... APDs don't really show up much until toward school age (can't be diagnosed accurately until about age 7). If he has problems with auditory figure ground or auditory discrimination, then group environments make 'hearing' a major challenge, and can make effective listening almost impossible. This makes the child seem oppositional when in fact, they are not getting the message... and/or are mentally exhausted from trying to get the messages all day every day. Just some ideas... Tell us more about him - things he likes to do, what he does with same-age peers, any special interests, any talents... the more you tell us, the more the rest of us might recognize some trends too... not that we can diagnosis, but it might help you and the pediatrician figure some things out. [/QUOTE]
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