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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, I know exactly how you feel and would give you a big hug if I could :)

This sounds a lot like my son too. He is now 5 and getting much better, but he was really hard to deal with at 3.5 - 4.5. He was very defiant and oppositional. He can still be, but is nowhere near the amount he was during that time frame.

The dev ped we took him to at age 3.5 was trying to convince us that he had ASD. We just didn't see it. God even my mother was sending me articles about autism and trying to convince us. This is why we got him tested.

We recently had him tested by a neuropsych at age 5 and he got about 5 diagnoses - ADHD, DCD, Language Disorder, Unspecified anxiety and unspecified emotional/behavioral (conduct). 
The neuropsych said unspecified for anxiety and the emotional disorder since my son didn't show all qualifications of those disorders and thought that some of my son's challenges were actually more a result of the language disorder and ADHD. We need to monitor him for those as he gets older.

So, anyway, he has been in a private therapeutic preschool for about 1.5 years.  We had to remove him from daycare because they just could not handle, nor did they have the resources to accommodate someone like my son.

He will be going into K in the fall and the IEP team determined, along with us, that he should start in [b]a therapeutic day school which is specifically for kids with emotional/behavioral challenges. The academic curriculum is the same for regular K, but also teaches them how to understand and work through their behavioral challenges. It is very structured. We want to help him through this early, rather than trying a wait and see approach. Hopefully he will eventually be mainstreamed. We are in another state, but I would hope they have something like that near you.[/b]

I'm not a doctor, but my initial take is what you wrote does not scream ASD to me. Sounds like he may have some other underlying things going on (possibly similar to my son, or some of the others who have posted here).

I know how you are feeling - the constant doubting of yourself wondering if you are doing the right things for your child. You are on top of this and doing a great job. It will get better ( I did not believe that either) but its true.[/quote]

Wow. I do not think we have anything like this in the DC area - am I right, posters? We are in NOVA but are thinking of working with an educational consult to consider a move.[/quote]

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