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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 551929" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Loony... please don't take this as a rant or being harsh, but... wow, have you got a lot of ground to cover fast.</p><p></p><p>Now, I have lots of sympathy. been there done that.</p><p></p><p>You're dealing with a raft of problems:</p><p>This is a... </p><p>- 13 year old</p><p>- male, with</p><p>- raging hormones,</p><p>- a feast-or-famine appetite,</p><p>- and horrid school history, who is also</p><p>- in the middle of medications adjustments</p><p>- and is trying to survive with almost zero support at school.</p><p></p><p>Recipe for problems? In my books, of COURSE he has problems.</p><p></p><p>I don't know the right order of things to tell you, but from what we went through... any chance of a comprehensive evaluation on an emergency basis? ("emergency" need got us one in 6 months instead of 18 months... not fast enough, but better than the alternative.)</p><p></p><p>You don't list dysgraphia as one of the dxes. What else does he have? Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? How about an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation? and all the other fun stuff... </p><p></p><p>You see, ADHD rarely stands alone. Yes, sometimes - I have a kid like that. But far more often, it's a matter of ADHD plus a few other things. I think you need to find out what those other things are.</p><p></p><p>1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills. Might explain the dysgraphia. Might explain a bunch of other stuff, too. And Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations lead to therapies that actually DO work. Plus... other evaluators will make use of the Occupational Therapist (OT) report. Here, so will school. Given that half the kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (developmental coordination disorder, a neuro-motor issue), AND he's got dysgraphia? Chances are pretty high that there's a motor skills component in there somewhere. medications are not involved in sensory or motor skills issues - just accommodations and interventions.</p><p></p><p>2) Screening for the full spectrum of APDs. Not just the classical Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) that involves how verbal language is processed. But the rest of them, too - things like auditory figure ground. This can be HUGE. They tell us that about 70% of the kids who have ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), will also have some form of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD). </p><p></p><p>3) a fresh comprehensive evaluation, to pull together all the pieces.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what all is in that IEP - but if you have to put "scratch paper" into an IEP for a kid with dysgraphia... that IEP isn't worth the paper it's written on. JMO, of course - after living for a lot of years with a kid who has all of the above problems and more, I do tend to get a bit opinionated about these issues. I've seen first hand the damage that schools can do, really fast, when they don't understand. And... even WITH a raft of reports and dxes and recommendations behind you, generally they STILL don't understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 551929, member: 11791"] Loony... please don't take this as a rant or being harsh, but... wow, have you got a lot of ground to cover fast. Now, I have lots of sympathy. been there done that. You're dealing with a raft of problems: This is a... - 13 year old - male, with - raging hormones, - a feast-or-famine appetite, - and horrid school history, who is also - in the middle of medications adjustments - and is trying to survive with almost zero support at school. Recipe for problems? In my books, of COURSE he has problems. I don't know the right order of things to tell you, but from what we went through... any chance of a comprehensive evaluation on an emergency basis? ("emergency" need got us one in 6 months instead of 18 months... not fast enough, but better than the alternative.) You don't list dysgraphia as one of the dxes. What else does he have? Has he ever had a comprehensive evaluation? How about an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation? and all the other fun stuff... You see, ADHD rarely stands alone. Yes, sometimes - I have a kid like that. But far more often, it's a matter of ADHD plus a few other things. I think you need to find out what those other things are. 1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation for sensory and motor skills. Might explain the dysgraphia. Might explain a bunch of other stuff, too. And Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluations lead to therapies that actually DO work. Plus... other evaluators will make use of the Occupational Therapist (OT) report. Here, so will school. Given that half the kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) (developmental coordination disorder, a neuro-motor issue), AND he's got dysgraphia? Chances are pretty high that there's a motor skills component in there somewhere. medications are not involved in sensory or motor skills issues - just accommodations and interventions. 2) Screening for the full spectrum of APDs. Not just the classical Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) that involves how verbal language is processed. But the rest of them, too - things like auditory figure ground. This can be HUGE. They tell us that about 70% of the kids who have ADHD and a Learning Disability (LD), will also have some form of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD). 3) a fresh comprehensive evaluation, to pull together all the pieces. I don't know what all is in that IEP - but if you have to put "scratch paper" into an IEP for a kid with dysgraphia... that IEP isn't worth the paper it's written on. JMO, of course - after living for a lot of years with a kid who has all of the above problems and more, I do tend to get a bit opinionated about these issues. I've seen first hand the damage that schools can do, really fast, when they don't understand. And... even WITH a raft of reports and dxes and recommendations behind you, generally they STILL don't understand. [/QUOTE]
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