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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 437973" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Hi Amy,</p><p></p><p>Yes, the school district psychiatric can diagnosis your daughter with learning disabilities. In fact, I'd bet most LDs are diagnosis by the school psychiatric. That is a huge part of their job -- testing and diagnosis children as part of the IEP process. </p><p></p><p>Will they be testing her soon or not until next fall?</p><p></p><p>*********</p><p></p><p>For your son, a label is just that -- a label -- it gives his treatment team a direction to go in and as they try different things (medications and therapy) and see what works and what doesn't, they will fine tune the diagnosis. The reason that many kids start with an ADHD or ODD label is those are pretty broad diagnosis categories and not as "heavy" as bipolar or autism. Many times insurance requires a diagnosis in order to pay for tx so they have to pick something.</p><p></p><p>Tigger started out being diagnosis with Bipolar at 5. We now know that it was an incorrect diagnosis but it seemed a good guess at the time. Due to that diagnosis, he was put on Depakote and given therapy on handling his emotions. Since his correct diagnosis is Epilepsy and Autism, both of those tx actually helped the real problem. </p><p></p><p>Stick with your mommy-gut, if they come back with a diagnosis that just seems totally off the wall, ask them to explain how they reached that conclusion. If you still disagree, feel free to explain to them why -- there may be infomation that they hadn't considered. All 3 of my older kids had at least one "lost in space diagnosis" and I was very blunt with the "professionals" about why I refused to accept their conclusion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 437973, member: 1169"] Hi Amy, Yes, the school district psychiatric can diagnosis your daughter with learning disabilities. In fact, I'd bet most LDs are diagnosis by the school psychiatric. That is a huge part of their job -- testing and diagnosis children as part of the IEP process. Will they be testing her soon or not until next fall? ********* For your son, a label is just that -- a label -- it gives his treatment team a direction to go in and as they try different things (medications and therapy) and see what works and what doesn't, they will fine tune the diagnosis. The reason that many kids start with an ADHD or ODD label is those are pretty broad diagnosis categories and not as "heavy" as bipolar or autism. Many times insurance requires a diagnosis in order to pay for tx so they have to pick something. Tigger started out being diagnosis with Bipolar at 5. We now know that it was an incorrect diagnosis but it seemed a good guess at the time. Due to that diagnosis, he was put on Depakote and given therapy on handling his emotions. Since his correct diagnosis is Epilepsy and Autism, both of those tx actually helped the real problem. Stick with your mommy-gut, if they come back with a diagnosis that just seems totally off the wall, ask them to explain how they reached that conclusion. If you still disagree, feel free to explain to them why -- there may be infomation that they hadn't considered. All 3 of my older kids had at least one "lost in space diagnosis" and I was very blunt with the "professionals" about why I refused to accept their conclusion. [/QUOTE]
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