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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  So we did start medication a few months ago (got in with KKI), and it helped, though as I'd guessed not so much with the language/social piece.  More with the bouncing off the walls/safety issues piece.  Though school feels it's helped with attention and ability to engage (and thus some language use, since it's hard to participate if you're not tuned in).  No huge social or language leaps, or any real difference in progress there - yet, though I do feel like there's now more of an opportunity (though I think we're not getting the right support from the school and our ability to do services outside of school has been limited).  Part of the difficulty is I think we need a dose adjustment - med impact is a bit inconsistent, but I hesitate to raise right now as we're not seeing any eating or sleeping side effects (and as a still-napper, I'd really like to avoid messing with the nap while it's still needed).  I'm thinking over the summer/early next school year we'll try to increase it, as the nap issue should be less pressing.  I'm definitely glad for the medication though, it's made a difference at home as well - it was hard to see how trying the behavior and other aspects were until they were toned down a bit.  When things are working well, it's more peaceful (and safer, etc).  Things like rec classes have gone much better, grocery shopping is manageable and dare I say sometimes even pleasant, and so on.

But it may be over time that we see a bigger difference in the developmental pieces.  In terms of other underlying issues - we now also have an ASD diagnosis, which I think technically fits our continued issues but I'm not sure is exactly on point (I don't think there's anything better).  But I wasn't surprised to get it, and I've seen the issues for a while now.  And I'm more comfortable pursuing that/rolling with it having started medication, to see that indeed it helped, but not quite with the core issues thus making it more likely something else is going on at the moment.

I still think it's hard to sort out what's what.  The language piece isn't helping the social piece - but the social issues seem bigger than just language (if you're not using the language you have, even if not as sophisticated as peers, in a social manner like you could that seems to me to argue it's not just language).  Attention/hyperactivity wasn't helping anything.  But she is more tuned in to non-social things, so I think again that shows the difference in social versus other things. And it's hard to predict where things will be in a few years.  I've both under and over estimated the likely progress in various areas in the past 2 years, so have given up trying to predict anything (and correspondingly tried to give up on the anxiety over it a bit).[/quote]

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