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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 594731" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>That is a MAJOR red flag for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory figure ground.</p><p>They usually can't test for it until the kid is 7 or 8... the testing is too complex and too long otherwise, to get accurate results (or so our PhD-level evaluator told us).</p><p>This is strictly medical (developmental). There are NO medications... but there ARE some really good interventions, from things that teachers can do to help, to sound-field or personal-fm systems (so the teacher's voice is louder than the background noise), to noise-cancelling headphones for when he needs to focus. </p><p>There is NO negative stigma to these APDs... at least, not any greater stigma than being hard of hearing (i.e. not like Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or MI ...)</p><p></p><p></p><p>If your brother is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) than your son is automatically "at risk" for being on the spectrum, and that (along with those "some things, some times" traits) would qualify him for a full-blown evaluation. Yes, you can have significant traits and "not meet diagnostic cut-off" for Aspie or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). And yes, you need to know.</p><p> </p><p>Don't be thrown off by the "some things, some times" inconsistency. What that means is that under fairly ideal conditions, your son is very high performing... but under stress, or tired, or hungry, or sensory or auditory overload... at some point, he runs out of "coping strength" and reacts the way he is wired. That would be totally normal.</p><p> </p><p>And if Aspie/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) runs in the family, then I'd also be getting an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills - because those issues are part of that same "spectrum", and you can have sensory and/or motor skills issues and NOT be officially "on the spectrum" (Aspie/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 594731, member: 11791"] That is a MAJOR red flag for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory figure ground. They usually can't test for it until the kid is 7 or 8... the testing is too complex and too long otherwise, to get accurate results (or so our PhD-level evaluator told us). This is strictly medical (developmental). There are NO medications... but there ARE some really good interventions, from things that teachers can do to help, to sound-field or personal-fm systems (so the teacher's voice is louder than the background noise), to noise-cancelling headphones for when he needs to focus. There is NO negative stigma to these APDs... at least, not any greater stigma than being hard of hearing (i.e. not like Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or MI ...) If your brother is Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) than your son is automatically "at risk" for being on the spectrum, and that (along with those "some things, some times" traits) would qualify him for a full-blown evaluation. Yes, you can have significant traits and "not meet diagnostic cut-off" for Aspie or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). And yes, you need to know. Don't be thrown off by the "some things, some times" inconsistency. What that means is that under fairly ideal conditions, your son is very high performing... but under stress, or tired, or hungry, or sensory or auditory overload... at some point, he runs out of "coping strength" and reacts the way he is wired. That would be totally normal. And if Aspie/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) runs in the family, then I'd also be getting an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills - because those issues are part of that same "spectrum", and you can have sensory and/or motor skills issues and NOT be officially "on the spectrum" (Aspie/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)) [/QUOTE]
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