Reply to What to do while waiting for neuropsych results?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "What to do while waiting for neuropsych results?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP here.

On the kid’s end, issues are:
- Anxiety + not dealing well with uncertainty, so they’re on edge waiting for An Answer that will explain their struggles. 
- As teens do, they have read a lot and self-diagnosed. They tend to be a rigid thinker and have strongly identified with these self-diagnoses, so there might be some identity crisis, depending on the actual diagnosis.

On the parental end, not so concerned about the label. Bigger issues for us:
- Recommendations around college. Team has already hinted that they will recommend staying close to home. DC is a strong student and has been approaching college with more of an academic mindset. Starting the college search over is going to be hard for DC (see above re: rigid) and likely for DH as well. And just finding the time for visits (see above re: very concrete - they need to see a place to see themself there). 
- Recommendations for therapies for DC’s last year of HS. Team has also hinted that there will be therapeutic recs for this year. DC is already in assorted therapies, but it sounds like we’ll need to find and schedule new providers. That’s always time-consuming, and our jobs are not super flexible, so there will be juggling and tight schedules and trying to have some energy left for our other kiddo.

Overall, I’d rather just know so we can get started, and also I’m kind of dreading getting started.

Fortunately it’s only a week. I like the idea of distraction. [/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