Re: ()I really need some help.

[Guest guest]

Thank you everyone for the help.

I have been reading articles online. I went to the library and checked out several books.

I do need the diagnosis for treatment - an IEP/504, speech, OT, DT, and PSR. I am going to have another doctor evalate her, but that wont be for another 2 months - joys of waiting lists.

My daughter has drastic pragmatic speech delays (she is in the 5%). She has sensory issues that drive me mad - her clothes, if they are scratchy or not, if her pants go above her belly button or not, if the seams itch - also noises tend to drive her nuts, she is not sensitive to pain yet she freaks out at the sign of blood (just a little drop is enough to send her into a meltdown). Her fine motor skills are that of a 4 year old (and she is 9) this past month she has just started tying her shoes, you are unable to read her printing because she writes her letters large and does not put in spaces. While at the same time she has great test scores in school (she is 2% away from being labled gifted). She is in the 4th grade doing 5th grade work. Socially it is a nightmare, she can make a friend but keeping them does not happen. She struggles talking and playing games with her peers and brothers. Yet she will walk up to a stranger and just start talking -

I dont know how to get her to stop and everytime we talk about stranger danger and her safety. She is almost never still, she is always moving her legs, her hand, playing with her hair, running her fingers around her mouth. When you talk with her one on one, she can carry out a conversation about half the time, the other half of the time she shuts down and just says i dont know. She is great at interupting the conversation if you are having it with someone else.

With what I have wrote, and please ask questions if need be, do you think it is more Aspergers or ADHD?

Please let me know. I have her IEP/504 meeting in a week and I want to make sure I am doing the right thing for my daughter.

Thank you so much,

[Guest guest]

I'm actually attending a workshop -called is it ADHD or Aspergers...I found these : http://www.yourlittleprofessor.com/adhd.htmlhttp://ezinearticles.com/?ADD---What-Makes-Aspergers-Syndrome-Different? & id=744581Our first neuropsych gave us a dual dx but now I've had him evaluated and he has an auditory processing disorder which could also explain many of the ADD symptoms. From: DeGraff

<reneendegraff@...>Subject: Re: ( )I really need some help. Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 10:02 AM

Thank you everyone for the help.

I have been reading articles online. I went to the library and checked out several books.

I do need the diagnosis for treatment - an IEP/504, speech, OT, DT, and PSR. I am going to have another doctor evalate her, but that wont be for another 2 months - joys of waiting lists.

My daughter has drastic pragmatic speech delays (she is in the 5%). She has sensory issues that drive me mad - her clothes, if they are scratchy or not, if her pants go above her belly button or not, if the seams itch - also noises tend to drive her nuts, she is not sensitive to pain yet she freaks out at the sign of blood (just a little drop is enough to send her into a meltdown). Her fine motor skills are that of a 4 year old (and she is 9) this past month she has just started tying her shoes, you are unable to read her printing because she writes her letters large and does not put in spaces. While at the same time she has great test scores in school (she is 2% away from being labled gifted). She is in the 4th grade doing 5th grade work. Socially it is a nightmare, she can make a friend but keeping them does not happen. She struggles talking and playing games with her peers and brothers. Yet she will walk up to a stranger and just start talking -

I dont know how to get her to stop and everytime we talk about stranger danger and her safety. She is almost never still, she is always moving her legs, her hand, playing with her hair, running her fingers around her mouth. When you talk with her one on one, she can carry out a conversation about half the time, the other half of the time she shuts down and just says i dont know. She is great at interupting the conversation if you are having it with someone else.

With what I have wrote, and please ask questions if need be, do you think it is more Aspergers or ADHD?

Please let me know. I have her IEP/504 meeting in a week and I want to make sure I am doing the right thing for my daughter.

Thank you so much,

[Guest guest]

As I mentioned yesterday, regardless of

what they ultimately label it, it encompasses so many parts of the

problems we all deal with every day

Two books that I found very helpful about

sensory issues were:

The Sensory Sensitive Child

- A & A Gouze / Harper

A make sense approach wrapped around the

theory that your child really is doing the best she can every day and you can

help her by not putting her, (unknowingly) in stressful situations

Sensory Processing Disorder Answer

Book - Tara Delany / Sourcebooks Inc

250 Questions answered in very simple

terms with suggestions and home help treatment ideas for each of the deficient

senses

You will learn how all of the different senses

affect your child’s daily life and will probably be able to define which

senses are giving her the most grief

I read the same message in so many

responses to you and would like to offer once again that you not get hung up on

the label….This disease is an intertwined neurological mess which

overlaps from one level of the spectrum to the next and for the most part

requires a lot of the same treatments regardless of which “step”

you are standing on

You need the diagnosis to get services and

you have that so…..I would suggest…..onward with what you have and

find her some services….your research will help define in your mind what

she needs. As long as it won’t hurt or hinder her…try it

Have a great day

Teri

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Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010

7:03 AM

Subject: Re: ( )I

really need some help.

Thank you everyone for the help.

I have been reading articles online. I went to the

library and checked out several books.

I do need the diagnosis for treatment - an IEP/504,

speech, OT, DT, and PSR. I am going to have another doctor evalate her, but

that wont be for another 2 months - joys of waiting lists.

My daughter has drastic pragmatic speech delays (she

is in the 5%). She has sensory issues that drive me mad - her clothes, if

they are scratchy or not, if her pants go above her belly button or not, if

the seams itch - also noises tend to drive her nuts, she is not sensitive to

pain yet she freaks out at the sign of blood (just a little drop is enough to

send her into a meltdown). Her fine motor skills are that of a 4 year old

(and she is 9) this past month she has just started tying her shoes, you are

unable to read her printing because she writes her letters large and does not

put in spaces. While at the same time she has great test scores in school

(she is 2% away from being labled gifted). She is in the 4th grade doing 5th

grade work. Socially it is a nightmare, she can make a friend but keeping

them does not happen. She struggles talking and playing games with her peers

and brothers. Yet she will walk up to a stranger and just start talking - I

dont know how to get her to stop and everytime we talk about stranger danger

and her safety. She is almost never still, she is always moving her legs, her

hand, playing with her hair, running her fingers around her mouth. When you

talk with her one on one, she can carry out a conversation about half the

time, the other half of the time she shuts down and just says i dont know. She

is great at interupting the conversation if you are having it with someone

else.

With what I have wrote, and please ask questions if

need be, do you think it is more Aspergers or ADHD?

Please let me know. I have her IEP/504 meeting in a

week and I want to make sure I am doing the right thing for my daughter.

Thank you so much,