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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 216675" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I adopted a son with crack in his system at birth, and Im sure his birthmother didn't say "no" to alcohol either. Because all this can mess with a child's nervous system, as soon as we adopted him we scheduled a complete evaluation at a children's hospital. His behavior was atypical. We continued to have evaluations until they finally figured out what was REALLY wrong with him (we had a lot of false starts), but every time he was evaluated we learned a little more about him and got him services at school (this started before he was two years old). He's 15 and doing really well now, but these kids are very tricky to diagnose because of the prenatal drug and alcohol exposure. I suggest taking him for a neuropsychologist evaluation. That's in my opinion the best sort of professional to diagnose complicated kids. Obvisiouly, something is going on. Did you adopt him at birth? Adopting an older child can also cause problems. My son is on the high functioning end of autism, and we were told that kids exposed to drugs in utero have a much higher rate of autism. She sounds like she has some Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) traits, so that's one thing you can have the neuropsychologist look for. He will know how to find the little clues for whatever is going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 216675, member: 1550"] I adopted a son with crack in his system at birth, and Im sure his birthmother didn't say "no" to alcohol either. Because all this can mess with a child's nervous system, as soon as we adopted him we scheduled a complete evaluation at a children's hospital. His behavior was atypical. We continued to have evaluations until they finally figured out what was REALLY wrong with him (we had a lot of false starts), but every time he was evaluated we learned a little more about him and got him services at school (this started before he was two years old). He's 15 and doing really well now, but these kids are very tricky to diagnose because of the prenatal drug and alcohol exposure. I suggest taking him for a neuropsychologist evaluation. That's in my opinion the best sort of professional to diagnose complicated kids. Obvisiouly, something is going on. Did you adopt him at birth? Adopting an older child can also cause problems. My son is on the high functioning end of autism, and we were told that kids exposed to drugs in utero have a much higher rate of autism. She sounds like she has some Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) traits, so that's one thing you can have the neuropsychologist look for. He will know how to find the little clues for whatever is going on. [/QUOTE]
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