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Old May 08, 2012, 05:39 PM
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Aw Carla sorry to hear your dealing with Teachers who won't listen either. I have the books that bipolarmedstudent suggested above on order from the library. I am reading a book right now called "Superparenting for ADD" Edward M. Hallowell & Peter S. Jensen.
It is really helping me get a clearer picture and explains it better than his school set up Psychologist did.....I was told he has a difficult to deal with disability and left to figure it out. All the research I have done so far makes it seem like its almost impossible to understand and help my child. This book however approaches it from a totally different perspective, explaining that this wonderful little boy just sees things differently and that its not as bad as every1 seems to make it out to be. Calming me a lot and helping me feel better about my stress' with the whole situation. I don't feel now that there is no hope like the school has convinced me of. I have a meeting with the school tomorrow to discuss some ongoing issues but I now feel a lot more prepared instead of intimidated.
We are lucky where we are that I found a child counselor that I can go see that is covered by OHIP. He adores her and she seems to really enjoy seeing him too. She has been a great help in a lot of run ins with these particular teachers and school. All I did initially was talk to my Dr and he recommended the Family Health Unit and they set me up with her....I explained all the issues we/he was having at school and asked her to suggest what I could do. Maybe you could ask your Dr...the testing is not avail cost free tho but "A's" Counselor acted as an advocate on my behalf and put in a request to the school.....It might be worth a try if its available to you. The testing personally would have cost me $5000 dollars but because she pushed that it was necessary for him the school board put him on the list and they tested him for free.
They do only choose a limited number of candidates here and my son had to wait a year before they tested him. As he was bumped for another student who required the testing more than he did.

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