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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - I've raised two kids with ADHD-inattentive.  You are not going to want to hear this but our daughter sounds exactly what you posted (down to even taking hours to take a shower)  got misdiagnosed ("exec functioning disorder" "slow processing" "ADHD-inattentive" "Depression" "Generalized Anxiety disorder) at least four times.  We didn't find out until she was 16 that she actually had Asperger's/now "on the spectrum".   As an adult, it is very obvious now that she has Asperger's.  I wish I had received correct testing results early on so I could have provided more intervention but we followed what the pediatrician ("perfectly NT - no issues"), private schools, five testers, three shrinks and two therapists told us.  We started therapy and testing at four an no one got it right until age 16.  I wish  you only the best of luck and want to remind you to keep retesting every three years.  [/quote]

[b]What did the aspergers intervention do that the ADHD inattentive intervention did not do? To me they seem very similar and would take similar intervention to help both types of children.[/quote][/b]

Speech lessons; extra focus on composition for writing; eye control; mindfulness training (didn't exist when we were going thru the process); social behavior training to help with making and retaining friends; vitamin D checkups; early intervention on the delayed pottytraining, GERD, colon issues, fecalomas.  That's just off the top of my head.[/quote]

[b]What's eye control intervention?  My DD is not on the spectrum (she has inattentive ADHD) but she tells me she is not physically capable of looking people in the eye. I wonder if there is an intervention for that.[/quote]

I have that issue as a mom with ADHD, Id love to know![/quote][/b]

Mom of Aspie back.  This is too late for us but here's a link to vision control for autistic kids.  http://www.visioncenter4kids.com/autism.php.  Sorry I don't have anyone local to recommend.  I also asked our high school (some time ago) for speech intervention as part of IEP but got push-back.  I wish I had pushed harder on that in the IEP because it's very clear now as an adult that DC has a lisp on the S's.  And the eyes dart around much more than when young.  Yes, we could have paid privately but those interventions but by the time we hit public with an IEP we had thrown $100,000s at the problem, through testers, private schools, special needs schools, tutors, therapists, shrinks, meds, etc.   And by the time your ADHD or Aspie kid gets to high school, the work load becomes unmanageable.  Sometimes we paid for daily afternoon tutors just to get DC through homework.  I begged the privates, the SN schools and the high school via the IEP for less homework but (from my perspective) the teachers were relentless and the pressures, especially in junior and early senior year, just too much for disabled kids.[/quote]

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