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Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) child's teacher doesn't believe us
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 723170" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Although normally I love the idea of an advocate, and used one myself, i dont think the advocates know what Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is. Ditto for anyone who can test through school. It is not sonething looked for. If this were me, rather than expecting school psychologists to test her and find Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) i would go to a private psychiatrist or neuropsychologist (not a neurologist) who is very interested in and knowlegeable about adopted kids. Otherwise you may never get the right diagnosis or the right interventions at school. She will probably get a wrong diagnosis since very few of even mental health workers or educators ever heard of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). It is best known in the adopton community.</p><p></p><p> After you get this diagnosis, and any others she may have, ask for school testing and bring this private testing with you. School districts have to consider the diagnosis of an outside professional. Usually the outsiders test much better and have more all around knowledge and experience.</p><p>Is your daughter in private attachment therapy outside of school? Any treatment at all? Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is very serious. School can give her supports, but school wont make Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) better.</p><p></p><p>The time to disrupt an adoption is before finalization. Disclosure or not there is no recourse once the adoption is legal. When our adopted child molested my younger kids the county removed him but we had to pay ongoing child support. Usually you can not give up rights to your child for any reason in Wisconsin (and many states) but our case was so extreme eventually they compassionately allowed us to dissolve the adoption. But this is rare.</p><p></p><p>The states rarely disclose everything and are never held accountable. Sometimes nobody really knows the extent of damage there is. I dont think the State of NJ, where our boy came from, had a clue what he was really like. He even fooled his psychiatrist. And his foster parebts before us. RADs are good actors. But he was very dangerous, so do be careful. They not only can molest little ones, but often act out sexually at young ages in other ways and ours killed two pets. </p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 723170, member: 1550"] Although normally I love the idea of an advocate, and used one myself, i dont think the advocates know what Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is. Ditto for anyone who can test through school. It is not sonething looked for. If this were me, rather than expecting school psychologists to test her and find Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) i would go to a private psychiatrist or neuropsychologist (not a neurologist) who is very interested in and knowlegeable about adopted kids. Otherwise you may never get the right diagnosis or the right interventions at school. She will probably get a wrong diagnosis since very few of even mental health workers or educators ever heard of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). It is best known in the adopton community. After you get this diagnosis, and any others she may have, ask for school testing and bring this private testing with you. School districts have to consider the diagnosis of an outside professional. Usually the outsiders test much better and have more all around knowledge and experience. Is your daughter in private attachment therapy outside of school? Any treatment at all? Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is very serious. School can give her supports, but school wont make Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) better. The time to disrupt an adoption is before finalization. Disclosure or not there is no recourse once the adoption is legal. When our adopted child molested my younger kids the county removed him but we had to pay ongoing child support. Usually you can not give up rights to your child for any reason in Wisconsin (and many states) but our case was so extreme eventually they compassionately allowed us to dissolve the adoption. But this is rare. The states rarely disclose everything and are never held accountable. Sometimes nobody really knows the extent of damage there is. I dont think the State of NJ, where our boy came from, had a clue what he was really like. He even fooled his psychiatrist. And his foster parebts before us. RADs are good actors. But he was very dangerous, so do be careful. They not only can molest little ones, but often act out sexually at young ages in other ways and ours killed two pets. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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