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[quote=Anonymous]OP maybe not what you want to hear, but many of us on this forum with older kids did not find therapies helpful at all for kids this age. They are just too young to access the skills required by therapy.

fwiw, DS was diagnosed at age 3 with moderate/severe ADHD. Absolutely not too young to diagnose.  I asked the evaluators about the diagnosis age, and the dev peds at KKI (where we had the eval) said that the literature all suggests that 3 may be too young because so many parents just think regular 3-year old range of behavior is intolerable and look for a diagnosis; or symptoms may be low enough that it really isn't clear if it's ADHD or not. But that a small subset of ADHD kids have such obvious clinical symptoms at age 2 and 3 that there's no reason not to diagnose for that group.

At that time, they told me to seek out social skills groups and behavioral therapy. I called every therapist within an hour drive and none offered those supports for 3 year olds. One very nice psychologist told me her own son had a similar profile, and that reality was that therapy wasn't going to do a thing at that age, and the only thing that would help is time and medication. I needed to hear that from an expert.

At age 4, we decided to start medicating. It was life changing for our household. We felt tremendously guilty, but DS wasn't functioning happily in this world and the medication let him find more peace.

Some on here have success with OT, but we did not, nor did any of my good friends.  Just was added stress in our week.

Age 3 was a really hard time for SN kids because there aren't enough supports or answers to resolve these issues, and you're kind of in a desperately-trying-to-hold-on waiting pattern until medication.   [/quote]

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