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Middle school is a really tough time for adolescents, and so if your daughter happens to have some health issues or behaviors which may cause her to act, to talk etc. a bit different from her peers, maybe it is upsetting to her in having to deal with the difference(s)  and/or reactions from her peers?  I would first of all request a meeting with the psychologist to go over in detail the results of the testing AND to perhaps relate it to issues which may have arisen this year with her friends, with other more general peers or with teachers.

Questions to consider might be:

- Is she on the borderline in terms of emotional awareness and her behaviors or other there definite tendencies for emotional reactions or behaviors which have been there even episodically for a while and are increasing as hormones etc change?

- Have you seen a definite negative change in either her emotions or behaviors at home?  in other settings?

- Has she commented about changes in her relationships with peers or have you noticed a change?

- Then what explicitly would an ED label provide in services to meet her needs that the OHI label would not?

- Could one accept the OHI at t his time, but change it if the need is seen? I am wondering with the summer months ahead if you might find that she would benefit from some private therapy and/or social skills groups that so many seem to bring up here, especially if it seems like a fairly new occurrence.

So yes I guess I would really check out why the recommendation is being made, what resources it opens up to her and/or consider if private counseling over the summer might help turn things around.  ED is a hard label to shake, but if the need is there and services, it certainly should be considered.   We did not recognize the inner emotional issues with our oldest, and it really came out in the college years.[/quote]

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