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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 511061" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Nikki...</p><p>While you're in the process of getting evaluations done... see if you can pursue two more. These are done by separate people anyway, but the info they provide adds much to the overall evaluation process - even if nothing shows (because of what it rules out). </p><p></p><p>1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation - sensory issues and motor skills. Either can really complicate things, can have both! Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies etc. to help, as well. If you need stats to argue for a referal, "per CanChild, 50% of kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)" (you can find CanChild and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) info at <a href="http://www.canchild.ca" target="_blank">www.canchild.ca</a> - and even if you can't get the actual Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) diagnosis, there's lots of good info on handling motor skills issues at school and at home) The early grades at school are SO heavily weighted to fine motor skills, that even minor issues become huge.</p><p></p><p>2) Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation... if she had major language processing issues, it would probably already be obvious. But there are other possibilities - APDs like auditory figure ground, where the person's background noise filters don't work well... so, they hear normally, and work well one-on-one in a quiet space... but classroom may be a disaster.</p><p></p><p>Those who do comprehensive evaluations will be familiar with the reports generated by OTs and SLPs, and will include such info in their analysis and report.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 511061, member: 11791"] Nikki... While you're in the process of getting evaluations done... see if you can pursue two more. These are done by separate people anyway, but the info they provide adds much to the overall evaluation process - even if nothing shows (because of what it rules out). 1) Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation - sensory issues and motor skills. Either can really complicate things, can have both! Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies etc. to help, as well. If you need stats to argue for a referal, "per CanChild, 50% of kids with ADHD also have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)" (you can find CanChild and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) info at [URL="http://www.canchild.ca"]www.canchild.ca[/URL] - and even if you can't get the actual Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) diagnosis, there's lots of good info on handling motor skills issues at school and at home) The early grades at school are SO heavily weighted to fine motor skills, that even minor issues become huge. 2) Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluation... if she had major language processing issues, it would probably already be obvious. But there are other possibilities - APDs like auditory figure ground, where the person's background noise filters don't work well... so, they hear normally, and work well one-on-one in a quiet space... but classroom may be a disaster. Those who do comprehensive evaluations will be familiar with the reports generated by OTs and SLPs, and will include such info in their analysis and report. [/QUOTE]
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