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I don't know what the limit is for books on my teacher card. I know I can get up to 40 of the same book. Not that I'd need to. At present we have 46 on my teacher card and 10 on ds' card. We have 3 card from two libraries. I've had 100 books out before.
We can keep books out for a month on the teacher card and two weeks on the children's cards. I borrow once a month but return once or twice a week. When I return books some of my children will ask to get a free reading book, which I allow.
On the rare occasion that I allow DVDs they are 3 days and 7 days for VHS.
Each of my children have their own library box which holds all the books they are reading for the month. My 6th and 4th graders will have between 6 and 8 books in his box while my kindergartener and 1st grader usually have 30 or so in their boxes.
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My older two children shower in the morning to help wake them for the day. In summer they often take a second quick shower before bed to get off the stink and dirt. My younger two have very sensitive skin and only bathe/shower when they need it. 2 to 3 times a week.
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I had my ds10 take a blood test to check for a B12 deficiency. His doctor did a wide screen deficiency blood test. I got his results back today. She didn't find a deficiency in B12 but said that his Vitamin D results were less then 5.
She suggested that he take 400I.U. with Vitamin C. That seems like a rather low dose for such a big deficiency. She suggested that the whole family take D and C. I take 5000I.U. every day and have been giving ds one of my Vitamins once a week. I told her this and she basically didn't believe that he is actually taking them... that maybe he is spitting them out when I'm not looking. I know this is not the case.
I'm not really sure what to do about this. I picked up some chewable 400IU D3 and 500mg C with Rose Hip for him. I'm thinking that I should at least double the D3. I'm not really sure though. Any suggestions.
Oh we live in the NE so there is very little sunlight.
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I had my ds10 take a blood test to check for a B12 deficiency. His doctor did a wide screen deficiency blood test. I got his results back today. She didn't find a deficiency in B12 but said that his Vitamin D results were less then 5.
She suggested that he take 400I.U. with Vitamin C. That seems like a rather low dose for such a big deficiency. She suggested that the whole family take D and C. I take 5000I.U. every day and have been giving ds one of my Vitamins once a week. I told her this and she basically didn't believe that he is actually taking them... that maybe he is spitting them out when I'm not looking. I know this is not the case.
I'm not really sure what to do about this. I picked up some chewable 400IU D3 and 500mg C with Rose Hip for him. I'm thinking that I should at least double the D3. I'm not really sure though. Any suggestions.
Oh we live in the NE so there is very little sunlight.
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He will count the blocks, counting some blocks twice, skipping blocks, or will count higher then the number of blocks there. Any ideas?
Don't move on until he can count the blocks correctly fairly regularly (8 out of 10 times). Do a lot more counting in everyday life. Count the stop lights as you are driving. Count the forks at the table. Look we have 3 forks, now four. Count every single thing until you are sick of counting and then count some more. Oh a very good one is to count M & M's, cookies and skittles. Leave the manipulatives out for him to play with. MUS is cumulative so not being able to count will cause problems as he progresses. Steve Demme is very particular about not moving on until a subject is mastered. It may take several weeks or even months to master it. My biggest idea for you in this area is to be patient with him. He will eventually get it.
So we started hooked on phonics, along with letter manipulative, ect. Ds started being able to sound out words in the "at" family, I was amazed( I cried in fact) well since then things have not progressed so much..... when I tried to introduce the "an" family he still sounded out all the "an" words with "at" on the end so "can" was sounded out "cat" ect. We have been stuck at this stage for 3 weeks and all words are still being sounded out this way. Any ideas???He may need to learn to sound out each letter such as C*A*N or CA*N rather then C* AN as hooked on phonics teaches. One thing you can try... at Dollar Tree they have these blank word strips. They have the dotted line in the middle. You can write his words on them and then use a matchbox car and drive over the letters as he sounds them out. It may help him to sound out each letter.
Also he has close to 0 reading comprehension. I can read him a sentence or two from a story say charlottes web that says "wilbur is a pig" then I ask him what is Wilbur and he has no idea without prompting. Now if I say "wilbur is a....." sometimes he can fill in the blank. Anyone know of any good ways to work on reading comprehension from such a basic level? Any curriculum's?This Reading Comprehension Website might be useful.
Sounds more like working memory or an audio memory issue to me though. I don't really know a lot about those. sorry.
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I just took my seven year old dd to the eye doctor. She has some near sightedness. He is giving her corrective lenses with prisms and a very light blue tint. I have never heard of this before and it caught me off guard. He seem very knowledgable. He also wants to see her back in a month for re-check. She was having a lot of problems processing what he was saying. Like when are the letter right above each other or when they split into two letters. She just would never answer him. He would ask her if they were on top of each other... then she would say oh yeah they are. I told him that she had PDD-Nos. He seemed like he knew what I was talking about. He does vision therapy at the office. Do you think he is wanting to do therapy on her? He said that she had excellent tracking skills.
My ds's eye doctor said that ds could benefit from prism glasses, but our ins. won't cover the special visit and the extra cost of the lenses. This site can explain what prism glasses are for in reference to autistic individuals.
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ASD child-specifically PDD-NOS? What has worked?
My ds was not dxed with PDD-NOS until early last year at age 9. But we knew that he had SPD and ADHD combined when he was 6. Before then we just knew that he was special and very different from other children his age.
He was delayed in more physical and social areas then academic areas. His week areas have been focus and fine motor control. He is very fidgety and gets off task easily. As a preschooler we had to limit his outside stimuli because he would become unmanageable.
We had a Parents as Teachers Representative come to our home once a week when ds was around 2 years of age. A lot of the things she did with him were similar to ABA therapy, but not quite as intensive.
In the preschool/Kinder years we did quite a bit hands on. I had six daily work boxes that held Montessori type activities for each day. I required that he do all the boxes but in whatever order he chose. He also worked through year 0 of Ambleside Online which is a Charlotte Mason approach. He listened in with his brothers schoolwork (WTM approach) when he wanted to.
When ds was in 1st we began using WTM and I had to guide him a lot more with Narrations then the average 1st grader. His handwriting skills were awful even though we'd been working on forming letters for 2.5 years. So with him I required a lot less copy work then is suggested in WTM. He continued doing narrations until 3rd grade. We no longer do narrations, instead we discuss material after he reads. He is delayed in penmanship by about 1.5 years but is slowly progressing. He has learned some typing skills but has not progressed far enough to use it as an academic asset yet.
He has had OT since he was 6 (for SPD and Developmental Delays).
Last year he received 24 weeks of PT (for Gross Motor Delays and Low Muscle Tone) and 8 weeks of Social Thinking training (for PDD-NOS) along with OT.
We looked into TEACCH method when ds was 1st dxed with PDD-NOS but our insurance wouldn't cover the only provider near us. So he is now doing OT and Social Thinking Group.
We mostly use WTM and AO for ds with accommodations for his unique needs. I think as far as the materials we use that meet my sons needs best right out of the shrink wrap is Math U See.
We've used workbooks for his specific issues...
Building Thinking Skills Series
I Spy Series
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Books
Think-A-Minutes Series
Reading Detective
Mind Benders Series
Visual Mind Benders Series
Roots and More Roots card games
Word Roots books (just because he likes roots)
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We were at the play place in our mall today. My 7yo came over to me and said... "Mommy, I'm revolving around my left axes (his left foot) as I orbit the play place. It's making hide-n-seek much more interesting".
Later when a rather impetuous little girl insisted for the 15th time that he was not welcome to play in the boat because he was not a girl ds said, "Mommy, I think that girl has been conditioned to reject casual interactions on the bases of gender." It was a bit surprising coming from him as he's usually much more stealth in his verbal expressions.
The lady beside me gave me such a dirty look and felt it her duty to reply, "You've got a weird one there." :glare My dd 4 overheard and said (in the sweetest, most polite voice), "He's not weird mam, he's awesome." :lol: She turned quite red.
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anyone else have a 2 E child and they ONLY 'see' the SN aspect. My son's IQ is, according to the PhD that tested him "scary high" buttttt trust me you'd never know .... sigh so tired of knowing he is smart but living with a highly emotionally, anxious typical 6 yo who is always moving, and who doesn't care for school at all.
My 10yo is we suspect 2e... That is we have a whole bunch of dx's for his SNs. He was dxed at age 5 with SPD, ADHD- combined, and Developmental Delays. We had him reevaluated last year at age 9 and they added PDD-NOS with a possible Dysgraphia. They also did IQ testing and the Kindergarten readiness test. His IQ test suggested that he was on the high end of mental retardation but the readiness test showed him being at the level of the average 2nd grader.
At age 6 we saw a lot more of the SN traits then the gifted traits...some of the gifted things that we were seeing we didn't recognize as being advanced thanks to his pg older brother. As he has grown older I can recognize a lot more of his gifts.
Giving accommodation for his week areas when working at higher levels has helped. Such as being his scribe in math and science work. It has helped ds to advance in his knowledge base without holding him back because of the higher writing requirements.
As we addressed some of the SN we began to see the gifted stuff surface.
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Hello all. I'm looking for something that will help both my oldest ds and my second ds with Executive Function and with Processing Speed. Something that will not break our budget or consume too much of our time. Here's a little background.
My oldest son is gifted with a slow processing speed. He's 11 and still has some executive function issues as well (they are more mild). His biggest problem area right now is keeping mathematics processes clear in his mind. He learns the method and then can't recall it later upon review. This is also true with writing. He can get ideas down well but has trouble remembering to use proper mechanics...even though he knows them.
My second son is 10 and is dxed with SPD, ADHD combined, and PDD-NOS (closer to Asperger then Autistic traits). We suspect that he is gifted also. His processing speed is sluggish but not as slow as his brothers. His Executive Functioning skills don't exist at all. Anything requiring writing is a minute by minute struggle to keep his focus. However give him any scientific reading material and he will be occupied for hours. He can do multiplication and division of fractions in his head at lightning speed but ask him to write it down and it literally takes hours to do one page unless I sit right there and tell him to do the next step.
I'm looking for academic teaching tools that will help me teach them to focus and stay on task mostly. Not so much medications or supplements.
Thank you.
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We are doing the complete series of Island and Town. I think it is worth the cost. Each book takes between 20-40 days to complete so you could just buy one at a time. It will end up costing more that way but if finances are tight one book every couple months might be more doable. You could get the poetry book 1st or the grammar book.
My oldest didn't really need the Grammar Level of Island as he is advanced and older but he read through it on his own because his brother and I were having so much fun with it. We have completed the Grammar and writing books for their levels. The Grammar books were both review... but we had several light bulb moments in the process. And several conversations on why grammar worked the way it does... they already knew the rules and names, but not the whys behind them.
We'll be finishing up the vocabulary and practice books shortly. The vocabulary books are a bit too easy for my boys. It's mostly review for them. But we are using the books at their recommended age. 8,9,10 Island and 9,10,11 for Town. The Practice books are just right for my boys... though there is quite a bit of repetition they can go through them fairly quickly which saves on the tediousness found in some other programs that we've tried.
We'll be starting the Poetry books in a few weeks. The boys are very excited.
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11 ds- oldest - Gifted, processing delays, and some anger issues not bad enough to be considered for a dx
10 ds- second - at age 5 SPD, ADHD Combined, Developmental Delays and Low Muscle Tone, at age 10 PDD-NOS
7 ds- third - dxed as neurotypical with some minor SPD behaviors
4 dd- forth - dxed as neurotypical with some minor SPD behaviors, and social awkwardness
The products we've used with most success are:
Phonics Pathways, Math U See, MCT's Grammar Series and Italics Handwriting by Barbara Getty & Inga Dubay
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Have any of you with autistic children used MB12 shots? If so did you see any results?
Thanks.
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Dh and our second son went to the local pizza shop to pick up our lunch today. On the way home they drove slowly past the PS. The children were out playing so the boys rolled down the window and said, "Nany, nany, nany... we got pizza and your stuck in school."
Oh how bad they are. I am so ashamed of their bad behavior. Dh did get a stern talking too. sheesh.
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DS 11 is more of a least worst right now... I think it's hormonal... but he doesn't complain about having to do literature or history. He's most advanced in Grammar but it's not his favorite anymore.
DS 10's favorite is anything Science.
DS 7's favorite is math.
DD 4's favorites and reading and writing.
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I have 4 that I will be homeschooling next year. Their ages/official grades in Aug. will be 12(7th), 10(5th), 7(2nd), and 5(K). This is our plan for next year. I'm sure we will do some other things as well, informal electronics, typing,etc.
Seventh Grade ds:
- Bible w/dad
- Devotionals A Ready Defense/ Evidence That Demands a Verdict/ The Mind of the Maker/ Desiring God/ Christian Life/ The God Who is There/ The Practice of the Presence of God
- Sequential Spelling 4&5
- Italics Handwriting G
- MCT LA Voyage
- MCT LA Magic Lens 1
- Usborne Encyclopedia History of the World/The New World/The Age of Revolution
- MUS Pre Algebra/Algebra
- Latina Christina II
- Traditional Logic II
- Nature Studies
- Apologia General Science
- Outside activities
Drawing Art Classes
Music Lessons
Fifth Grade ds:
- Bible w/dad
- Sequential Spelling 3
- MCT LA Town
- MUS Zeta/Pre Algebra
- Story of the World III/A Child's History of the World/AO YR 8&9
- Latina Christina II
- Thinking Toolbox/ Fallacy Detective
- Finish Apologia Zoo 3, Apologia Anatomy & Begin Apologia Astronomy (we won't likely finish it next year)
- Outside activities
- Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Music Lessons
Tae Kwon Do
Second Grade ds:
- Sequential Spelling 1
- MCT LA Island
- Story of the World III/Ambleside Online YR 3&4
- MUS Gamma/Delta
- Prima Latina
- Outside activities
- Finish Apologia Zoo 3, Apologia Anatomy & Begin Apologia Astronomy (we won't likely finish it next year)
- Outside activities
Clay Classes
Music Lessons
Kindergarten dd:
- Phonics Pathways (finish)
- Reading Pathways (finish)
- FLL 1&2
- MUS Alpha/Beta
- Story of the World III/Ambleside Online YR 3&4
- Prima Latina
- Finish Apologia Zoo 3 Junior, Apologia Anatomy Junior & Begin Apologia Astronomy Junior (we won't likely finish it next year)
- Outside activities
Dance Classes
- Bible w/dad
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I have one tested gifted and three advanced children. They would all be much more advanced if they were that compliant sweet angelic type that I've only ever heard of.
I think part of our family problem is that we often model non-compliance in our home. We watch videos of civil disobedience and debate politics and ethics with each other and the children fairly regularly. We talk about unfair laws and how to get them changed. Dh rants regularly about the decline of x,y,z in America. So I guess in some ways we have taught our children to do the same. But we have also worked hard to make sure they are respectful in the midst of exerting their own opinions. They are not always successful but I think they all try to be respectful most of the time.
My oldest has had a mind of his own since birth. He was a difficult infant and never wanted to be held. We started him doing academics at 3 out of desperation... to keep him out of mischief. He is almost 12 now and he is my most helpful (useful slave :lol:), publicly polite, and globally concerned of the group. But he also has anger issues. He yells and calls names of his siblings and occasionally dh and I. I think it is mostly puberty related. Though he does have issues with being mentally older then his chronological age at times... and others treating him like an 11 year old (how dare they). I don't think it helps that he is small for his age.
My second son is academically advanced but is also Autistic. He is my sweetheart. He is sensitive and we have to watch how we speak to him. He has the most bad behaviors... jumping on furniture, biting things and sometimes people, not following directions. But he doesn't have the defiant air that his big brother has and it would not occur to him to get angry at anyone, ever. Academics are his biggest challenge due to a small attention span. Yet he retains everything he's ever read.
My third son is only slightly ahead academically (about a year). Mostly because we started later with him. But he learns quickly and sweetly. He has typical 7yo behaviors like procrastination with schoolwork if he has to do it alone but he has a love of learning with mommy that the other boys don't. He gets along with everyone. He is my most relaxed one by far. He will do what he is told without complaint and to the best of his ability 80% of the time.
My daughter, who is the most advance right now, is a sweet cuddle bug who is also very whiny. I don't know if it's just a girl thing or what. But she whines when her brothers bug her. She whines when it's bed time. She whines to get her way (even though it doesn't work for her). She is also very clingy. But she is the first to help mommy in the kitchen or with laundry or running errands. I am really hoping that this helpful trend continues past the early years when she can actually do things on her own.
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Our 7yo is getting a Nintendo 3DS, Super Mario 3D Land (comes with 3DS)-it was on sale, socks and under ware, a pillow, a book, a movie, and a mini Lego set. He's getting the big purchase this year.
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Rainbow Resource was shipping before Christmas last week... don't know if they still are... But they have several really good sets. We bought this set last year (it's $47 now) and it came in a sturdy tub with a lid that stacks great with our educational Legos.
Walmart has these Legos that come in a blue or pink box. The blue box has the standard colors no pink. They are in stock now and are shipping before Christmas (site-to-store).
And I just had to share....
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1st 36wk water broke
2nd 36wk water broke
3rd 39wk scheduled C-section (but I did go into labor that day)
4th went into labor at 33 wks and was on meds. until 36wk when she came
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...The coconut sugar looks exactly like brown sugar if you get the right kind.. You could definitely use it instead.
I forgot to mention one other product that I love.. I use this to coat our chicken for frying.. It's soooo good! My kids beg for fried chicken.. You can find it in just about any health food store.
I did find the coconut sugar locally. And I'll look into the chicken coating. I've been using egg and rice flour... the kids like it, but it's not crispy like I prefer.
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Does he have low muscle tone--was the OT correct in that? Any other physical issues?
His P.T. said that he has low tone over the right side of his body which is normal for most people have except that ds's was sever and probably why it took him 8 years to keep from running into things. His neck and shoulder muscles are the worse though. The neurologist did not even check to see if he was low tone or not. We asked, he said, "Yeah, probably these kids usually are." But he never checked.
He had rotovirus when he was 2 and was hospitalized for the subsequent dehydration caused by the virus. He has PICA and has eaten many non-foods, mostly due to the need to chew and then forgetting that the item is in his mouth. It has caused a few minor problems with his mouth (cuts and ulcers) and he's mildly farsighted with astigmatism in one eye.
He's had lots of injuries (cuts and bruises, concussions) due to clumsiness, but nothing permanent. He's had probably 20 X-rays over the years. He used to have his arms go out of socket a lot, but he has learned to be more careful with letting others drag him around. No spinning by the arms. He has had no stitches but he has more glue then the office supply store. :tongue_smilie:
He has occasional (maybe once or twice a year) fevers (104-105) that we've stopped taking him to the Dr. for because nothing is ever done about them... they just send us home saying it's normal. They usually last for 2-3 days and then go away. He gets colds maybe once a year.
He has nose bleeds once or twice a month which last 20-30 minutes usually. Dark circles under the eyes appear around this time of year every year. We've been told that was because he wasn't getting enough sleep. He's my best sleeper.
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Thanks for your response Misty.
We use Barlean's Fish Oil liquid. I don't know if it is high in EPA. We tried several but it is the only one that I have been able to take w/o a reaction. I have a shellfish allergy. So we all just stuck with that one. DS takes 3tsp.
My dd (who also had FTT @ 6mo) has a Soy allergy. We found this out when they insisted on taking dd off b-milk and onto Soy formula. We don't use any soy in the house because it was so bad that I don't even want to chance it. We use brown sugar for cereal 1tsp. (I could eliminate this though) and Truvia for cooking. I've never heard of coconut sugar. They eat a lot of dried fruit, apples and bananas... should I be limiting these since they are high in sugar?
I made Quinoa for the kids and they love it. We've tried 3 recipes so far using it. We've tried a couple brown rice pastas that they liked but I didn't.:tongue_smilie:
So for now we should just add Vitamin D and Culturelle for Kids? And getting 100% on the GFCF diet?
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I have a few questions for those who've BTDT. We're feeling rather in the dark and confused with our ds. Sorry it got a bit long.
First I'll give a some background. Ds was born prematurely at about 36 weeks and had some complications during childbirth but was able to come home from the hospital at day 4. So he was basically a fine happy baby from that point until around 7 months.
I breastfed ds exclusively until he was 6mo. when I began adding solids Rice Cereal. At 6.5mo I added Oatmeal Cereal and it was awful. He went between two bowel extremes and he lost weight. By the time he had his 6mo. check-up (which was actually at 7mo.) he had gone from 20lbs to 13lbs. and was pale. He couldn't hold his head up anymore and was just sick looking. The Dr.s did blood tests, a test for Cystic Fibrosis. They did not do any food allergy tests. He was dxed with Failure to Thrive and they questioned me as though I were intentionally starving my son. I asked for but did not receive food allergy testing several times. After getting the run around having no results we finally just stopped feeding ds cereal all together and only breastfed again until he was a year and a half. At 9mo. he was 11lbs and at 1.5 he was up to 24lbs from only nursing. He got better, but was never quite the same.
Around 1.5 he started acting like he couldn't hear us (it took effort to get his attention) and he rocked back and forth a lot. He ran all over the place, jumped and spun, ran into things and was very clumsy. But he was hitting his milestones mostly a couple months behind. At 1.5 we had to have ds on a harness in public because he would run out into traffic and climb on things. We dislocated his elbow and shoulder several times before we asked for a prescription for a harness (it was illegal otherwise in the state we lived in).
I stopped looking at milestones at around 2 (I shouldn't have). I just assumed he'd continue to progress normally or just a bit slower. He potty trained in 2 days just after is second birthday. We had hearing tests done which were normal.
At 4 we expressed concern with his dr. She insisted that ds was "normal" for his age. He was a very hyper child and the nursery at church had a separate assistant just for him. He was not like the other 4yos he talked much more then they did and he was much more hyper... and very clumsy and dangerous in his actions.
At 5.5 we asked again and was dismissed again. He had an eye exams done. The Dr. found that he had some extreme sensitivities to light and thought that prism glasses would help... but we couldn't afford the $1,200 visit to confirm.
At 6 we finally got an evaluation with an Autism Specialist. He was given a dx of ADHD combined. And we insisted on an OT eval which she "didn't think was necessary" but obliged us anyway. He was dxed with sever SPD. He had low tone, oral, vestibular and proprioceptive issues 2 deviations below the norm, had both fine and gross motor delays of 5 or more years (so he was functioning as a 1.5 year old). Everything else was 1 deviation below the norm.
We chose not to medicate ds for the ADHD since he was at home anyway and I could help him focus without it. He was given O.T. 1hr per. week for a year. The ins. said that he could no longer receive care because he had progressed to the 5th% for his age range. Around this time we also gave him fish oil (3tbs a day), because my other ds's Dr. suggested that it might help the whole family.
We asked for O.T. again 1hr per wk when ds was 7.5 he was tested again and qualified for O.T. due to fine motor delays. The O.T. also did some P.T. with him each session because he didn't qualify, but she thought he needed it. Again he did O.T. for 1 year and then he had to wait 6mo. to be tested again.
At 9 we asked for another eval. which the dr. refused. We changed dr.s and asked for another eval. for O.T. at 9.5. It took several requests to finally get her attention and she did a more then 10 min. appointment with ds. She believed something more was going on then just ADHD and SPD so he was again sent to a phyc. dr.
So in March of this year ds was dxed as having PDD-NOS. When we got the dx we immediately got a neurology eval appointment and asked for more O.T. The dr. offered both O.T. 1/2hr per wk and P.T. 1hr per wk He has %ed out of P.T. but will continue O.T. for another 6mo. He was also offered to join a Social Thinking Group with a speech pathologist which he loved. He will get to do another this spring.
No one has really been very helpful with what we should be doing with ds. Everything we have done has been an up-hill battle (except for the P.T. and STG). So we were looking forward to seeing the Neurologist because he would shed some light on things.
We went to the app. in November. I was really disappointed in the level of information given. Practically none. The only suggestion given to us was to begin a fast acting ADHD med. that ds could take during his educational hours of school. And we were told that ds doesn't have SPD... his recent test results say otherwise. We asked if the PDD-NOS or the ADHD could be related to food allergies and we were told absolutely not... that Autism was a birth defect, and nothing else.
So now we're back to square 1. We've decided to do the GFCF diet and see if that helps any...before trying medications that have some serious side-effects. So far we have removed most Gluten and Casein from our diets... we're not there yet, but are a lot closer. I've seen a big change in my neurotypical children since removing these (2 have improved bowel and behavior, my oldest 11yo is more moody but this could be hormonal)... and some mild changes in ds10.
He is still quite spacey and he has taken to biting other children (a new thing). He still has a lot of sensory stuff going on and some inattention things going on, a few behaviors that get negative attention from others, but the hyper is way down even though he's been cooped up in the house for over a month.
So all this to say what can I be doing to help my ds to be fully himself? What else can I do to help ds with attention... which is the biggest issue right now before trying drugs (I know they work for some, but there are some serious drug reactions in extended family). Are there tests and such that I should be insisting that ds receive? I have seen that a lot of you are using supplements, should ds be using them and if so which ones? He takes only fish oil and Vit. C during the winter months.
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I called back and asked the nurse if the Dr. meant 5 points below normal or 5 because that's just what my dh asked. The nurse said that his level was 4 ng/mL. I voiced my concern about how low of a supplement she had suggested. Ds' doctor had said 400iu once a day. The nurse confirmed that was the dosage but we could safely double the dose if we would feel more comfortable. They will be retesting in 2 months.