Reply to In the range of typical, or is something amiss?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "In the range of typical, or is something amiss?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you posted sounds very much like our son when he was 5. We had him evaluated for ADHD at the request of his preschool teacher (that's a whole 'nother story), and were told that he fits the profile for ADHD, but so do most high-energy five-year-old boys. She said that, for this reason, an ADHD diagnosis was not developmentally appropriate at that point (absent extreme circumstances, such as behavior creating a serious safety risk to self or others) because some children will grow out of the behavior as they mature and others won't (and then often do turn out to have ADHD), and that diagnosis is generally much more accurate/reliable evaluation beginning at least seven years old. We had him evaluated at 8, and he was diagnosed with ADHD.
[/quote]

One more thing I meant to add, the evaluating psychologist did recommend that we get an OT evaluation, because she saw some fine motor weakness and said they also might be able to help address some of the symptoms that had brought us in for evaluation. We did the evaluation and then about four months of OT, and it really did help a lot, even without the official ADHD diagnosis.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics