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Thank you for your understanding and pointers to where we should be looking.

I am going to look into Dan Shapiro's classes and see if DH and I can attend and also look for a psychologist.

What kind of psychologist should I be looking? As for Psychiatrist, I need to understand the path. Can you please help me understand how you approached it. Did you just went to one you found or there are some kind of experience I should be looking. I had talked about possibility of neuropsych issue with DS's pediatrician and he had ruled it out. [b]According to him if DS can sit in front of the computer doing what he likes for hours - he does not have ADHD or ADD...[/b]should I ask for any specific issue. I am totally exhausted and very worried that I am leaving DS in danger if I do not act quickly.[/quote]

I posted before but only just saw this. The bolded above is completely wrong, as any ADHD expert or any parent of an ADHD kid will tell you! Don't even bother with your ped - they don't know a thing about any of this, seriously.
Dysregulation of attention, as ADHD should be called, is when a child's motivation circuits are not working properly, making any boring task such as homework impossible to focus on, and any rewarding task such as video games impossible to draw away from. ADHD often comes with anxiety, since children know they're capable of doing better but can't figure out why they're not doing it. They may believe themselves to be stupid or lazy, and get stressed out as a result and may just withdraw.

The Stixrud practice that I mentioned before does full neuropsychological evaluations, including IQ testing and ADHD testing. Note that it's very difficult to get reimbursed and it costs anywhere from 3-4K.
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