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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 421455" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Hello Marguerite. Thank you for your thoughts. I have no reason to think J has Asperger's Syndrome. He displays, as I have said, few if any of the characteristics. I do have reason to think that he has ADHD because of his manifest physical hyperactivity. He seems to have some of the characteristics of Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). He definitely displays ODD tendencies when he is feeling unloved or under threat... He finds change very difficult and upsetting - is that because of a neurological disorder, because he has lived in three different countries in four years of life with frequent travelling between them all (less so now we are more stable and he goes to school), or because of both?</p><p>My point is not that I am resisting a label because I just don't like them. I am regularly told - and it does make real sense to me - that the personality and the brain of the young child are evolving so rapidly and so uncertainly that accurate diagnoses cannot be made this young, unless a case is very extreme, very obvious. There is no point in having an unsure diagnosis just for the sake of it, as there is no call for medication of any kind at this point. Time will reveal things. We went to see the school psychologist - her assessment was that at this point J is completely within the normal range. She has told me to come and see her next year if it is clear he is having problems with learning to read and write... this makes sense. We have seen a child psychologist who suggests ADHD but says it is too early to make a diagnosis and she needs to see and know him much better before she can do so. </p><p>What I am really waiting for is to see the speech therapist (am on several waiting lists) because here in France they do also diagnose and work with neurological problems. I have also been told about an excellent neuro-psychologist that I would like to see - as everywhere, long waiting lists... We have an appointment in June to see another child psychology service and I think they will make an early assessment and suggest forms of help, which seem to be many and varied here.</p><p>So things are in hand! Things really will get clearer soon, over the next few years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 421455, member: 11227"] Hello Marguerite. Thank you for your thoughts. I have no reason to think J has Asperger's Syndrome. He displays, as I have said, few if any of the characteristics. I do have reason to think that he has ADHD because of his manifest physical hyperactivity. He seems to have some of the characteristics of Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). He definitely displays ODD tendencies when he is feeling unloved or under threat... He finds change very difficult and upsetting - is that because of a neurological disorder, because he has lived in three different countries in four years of life with frequent travelling between them all (less so now we are more stable and he goes to school), or because of both? My point is not that I am resisting a label because I just don't like them. I am regularly told - and it does make real sense to me - that the personality and the brain of the young child are evolving so rapidly and so uncertainly that accurate diagnoses cannot be made this young, unless a case is very extreme, very obvious. There is no point in having an unsure diagnosis just for the sake of it, as there is no call for medication of any kind at this point. Time will reveal things. We went to see the school psychologist - her assessment was that at this point J is completely within the normal range. She has told me to come and see her next year if it is clear he is having problems with learning to read and write... this makes sense. We have seen a child psychologist who suggests ADHD but says it is too early to make a diagnosis and she needs to see and know him much better before she can do so. What I am really waiting for is to see the speech therapist (am on several waiting lists) because here in France they do also diagnose and work with neurological problems. I have also been told about an excellent neuro-psychologist that I would like to see - as everywhere, long waiting lists... We have an appointment in June to see another child psychology service and I think they will make an early assessment and suggest forms of help, which seem to be many and varied here. So things are in hand! Things really will get clearer soon, over the next few years. [/QUOTE]
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