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ADDled “In most cases the diagnosis of ADD is usually “made in the field” by teachers who are trying to educate kids with minimal disruption in the classroom.”
As a teacher I have to say that this is *not* supposed to happen.
What I was taught at the Faculty of Ed and during my Special Ed training was that we tell the parents about behaviours that are of concern, without trying to put a label on them. Next, we ask the parents if they are observing similar things at home. Then we suggest that they take the child to a paediatrician for assessment. We are not to attempt to diagnose kids, because it is outside our area of expertise.
That being said, my fiance’s niece had a teacher who insisted that she had ADHD and told them to take her to a specific Doctor in town. The parents took her to another Doctor at the regional children’s hospital, who assessed her and said she didn’t have ADHD. This didn’t satisfy the teacher, who kept insisting they take the girl to the Doctor she recommended. My fiance’s sister finally shut her up when she pointed out that the Doctor she was insisting they see had actually been a resident with the Doctor they saw at the children’s hospital.
REPORT ABUSENovember 4, 2010 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Worse symptoms after brain surgery? Would medication help? #95856Have you discussed your concerns with your Doctor? They’re probably the best person to tell you what sort of improvement you might expect, as they know the most about what they did to your brain.
I’m not a Doctor, but as I understand it stimulant meds aren’t really intended for your situation. That being said, you might want to still have a look in ADHD books for strategies that might help you organize. Strategies for people with executive function issues will be similar regardless of the cause.
Organizing Solutions for People with Attention Deficit Disorder is an excellent book to start with.
http://www.amazon.com/Organizing-Solutions-Attention-Deficit-Disorder/dp/159233234X/ref=pd_sim_b_2
REPORT ABUSEHell, yeah!
As a kid I would have detention on a daily basis because I blurted out.
Now I’m less likely to blurt if I am talking face to face with someone, but I find it harder to not do it when I am on the phone.
I can usually control a blurt if I’m talking face to face, but as I’m doing it I feel like I am holding my breath. The worst part is, if I hold it in too long, I’ll forget what I was going to say, but the feeling of urgency doesn’t go away, so when I do my turn to say something, I’ll start talking and then have to concede I forgot what I was going to say.
MerryMac, I know *exactly* what you mean on the whole flashes of brilliance thing.
REPORT ABUSEI for one, was diagnosed with ADHD and a Learning Disability, though I was not given a specific label for the LD. I have fine motor skills and clumsiness as well as problems with Phonics, (Hooked on Phonics would *not* have worked for me. I learned to read very well through sight words, and context, semantic and syntactic cues. As a result, I’m a strong believer in whole language rather than phonics in isolation.) working memory and processing speed.
When I took Special Education training (I’m a teacher.) my instructor told the class that terms like Dyslexia, Discalculia, etc. really aren’t used in the Canadian context, though I don’t think he really explained why.
Nimthiriel: If you have a dual diagnosis, it can be very difficult to tease out what is caused by which condition. The important thing is find the coping strategies that work for you.
If you get an LD diagnosis, you have the right to seek workplace accommodations (at least in Ontario, I can’t speak for other juristictions.) to help you do your job better. Your Psychologist would include suggested accommodations in their report.
The thing is, in order to get the accommodations you have to feel comfortable enough with your employer in order to ask for them. I have a friend who had a horrendous time when she asked for accommodations in University, and as a result has never approached employers for accommodations.
Learning Disabilities are included in the term disabilities in the Human Rights code, so if you do experience workplace discrimination as a result of revealing a diagnosis, you do have legal recourse. You just need to have the wherewithall to go through the whole Human Rights process assuming something goes wrong. Only you can judge your own situation.
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/issues/disability
REPORT ABUSEJuly 26, 2010 at 2:50 am in reply to: Famous people with ADD & other Brain Chemistry Imbalances #92338Sorry, but that claim simply doesn’t match up with what we know of Einstein’s childhood. His mother writes about him being first in his class. At the age of 13, Einstein was reading philosophy, and declared Immanuel Kant to be his favourite.
http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/einstein.htm
REPORT ABUSEAt work, I’m forever losing things that I just had in my hand, because a kid asked me a question, I put the stuff down, and then forget about it completely.
The worst was when I lost an entire set of finished and signed report cards. (Turns out that they were in my backpack.) Had to go to the VP and get him to sign them again. At the time he said it wasn’t a big deal, and then totally turned it into one during my performance appraisal.
REPORT ABUSEJuly 1, 2010 at 1:32 am in reply to: What you may be doing that keeps you from making friends #94277“Or it could just be summed up as “typical internet forum”.
Nah, if it were a typical internet forum, we’d be talking about food by now.
Anybody know where to get some good perogi?
*runs away and hides*
REPORT ABUSEJune 29, 2010 at 12:23 am in reply to: VIDEO: Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders (TED) #94457Um, is there supposed to be a link here?
REPORT ABUSEI think you need to figure out why you want to deny the diagnosis. Is it because you don’t want it to be true, or do you have some sort of compelling reason to think it might be something else?
If it’s because you don’t want it to be true, you might want to figure out why that is. If you keep denying that there is an elephant in the room, then the room is going to keep filling up with elephant manure. Acknowledge the elephant is there, and then you can start to deal with the situation.
REPORT ABUSE” It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. “
For the record, the idea that people thought the Earth was flat is bunk.
REPORT ABUSEEvolution. I do not think it means what you think it means.
REPORT ABUSEJune 28, 2010 at 11:31 pm in reply to: What you may be doing that keeps you from making friends #94273My (mostly silly) theory is, there was some Cossack with ADHD gene(s) that helped him stay alive during one of the many upheavals in what is now the Ukraine’s past, so he had lots of kids, who had the gene, etc…
REPORT ABUSELarynxa, I think you’ve gotten entirely the wrong impression here. My fiance doesn’t live with his father. His father lives in another city altogether. The house that my fiance lives in belongs to his dad, who inherited it from his parents. My fiance moved in to look after the house after his grandmother died, and just kind of got stuck in a rut. He’s wanted out for years, but has been overwhelmed by everything that needs to be done to get it ready for sale. Together we’ve been making some progress on that.
REPORT ABUSEJune 28, 2010 at 7:16 pm in reply to: What you may be doing that keeps you from making friends #94270Purlgirl: I hear you. Sticks and stones followed up with “Well, go play somewhere else.” I would really like to know where this magical somewhere else was were I could go, and the bullies couldn’t follow. I used to daydream about the final Chapter of C.S. Lewis’ Silver Chair, where Aslan and Caspian come to Jill and Eustace’s school and scare the total crap out of the bullies.
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