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Unusual hand posturing / rigid finger positions?
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<blockquote data-quote="pattyb" data-source="post: 505167" data-attributes="member: 13784"><p>Thanks everyone for your very thoughtful and thorough responses!! We will definitely seek a pediatric neurologist evaluation to try to rule out any medical issue, and look into Occupational Therapist (OT). No one has suggested medication so far and we don't plan to try anything anytime soon as we do wonder if it's the right diagnosis. What did your child's mood disorder symptoms look like around age 4? The psychologist who diagnosed him is apparently very respected, the specialists we've talked to since the diagnosis have all been like oh, good, he is great, when they find out who evaluated him. He is a PhD and 'clinical neuropsychologist.' We felt like he did take the time to really look at the whole picture, and he did watch a LOT of video we took. The only thing he said that we didn't necessarily think he understood completely about him was about the hand postures/finger twisting/rigid hand type stuff - we agree that it does seem to come on during times of more anxiety i.e. walking into a room full of kids, but it's also when he's running sometimes, and he compared it to someone rubbing their fingers together out of anxiety and that is more repetitive where this is seems different. Out of all the times he saw DS, he never did the hand thing in front of the psychologist at all, in fact every time he observed him he only saw DS being very engaged, happy, social, bright, flexible with switching activities etc. It's only in the videos that he saw any meltdowns or obsessiveness.</p><p></p><p>TeDo, I am also so interested to hear that your child does the baby talk thing too. I haven't seen anyone else talk about that. Is that something I can help him with in some way?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pattyb, post: 505167, member: 13784"] Thanks everyone for your very thoughtful and thorough responses!! We will definitely seek a pediatric neurologist evaluation to try to rule out any medical issue, and look into Occupational Therapist (OT). No one has suggested medication so far and we don't plan to try anything anytime soon as we do wonder if it's the right diagnosis. What did your child's mood disorder symptoms look like around age 4? The psychologist who diagnosed him is apparently very respected, the specialists we've talked to since the diagnosis have all been like oh, good, he is great, when they find out who evaluated him. He is a PhD and 'clinical neuropsychologist.' We felt like he did take the time to really look at the whole picture, and he did watch a LOT of video we took. The only thing he said that we didn't necessarily think he understood completely about him was about the hand postures/finger twisting/rigid hand type stuff - we agree that it does seem to come on during times of more anxiety i.e. walking into a room full of kids, but it's also when he's running sometimes, and he compared it to someone rubbing their fingers together out of anxiety and that is more repetitive where this is seems different. Out of all the times he saw DS, he never did the hand thing in front of the psychologist at all, in fact every time he observed him he only saw DS being very engaged, happy, social, bright, flexible with switching activities etc. It's only in the videos that he saw any meltdowns or obsessiveness. TeDo, I am also so interested to hear that your child does the baby talk thing too. I haven't seen anyone else talk about that. Is that something I can help him with in some way? [/QUOTE]
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