Tonight when I put C to bed, he told me “Mommy, I think I’m unusual. I mean, I’m not like other kids in a lot of ways.” This is the first time he’s ever expressed that and I was a bit surprised. Despite all the things that are unusual about C, he’s never seemed to pay [...]
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After not expecting to hear back from our school district until the fall, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a letter last week stating that they agreed to our request for an independent educational evaluation. They sent us a short list of psychologists and neuropsychologists they have worked with and one had been a neuropsychologist [...] Well, tomorrow I take C to the developmental pediatrician. I wonder if we’ll come away with any answers. I kind of wonder what she will be able to determine from a handful of records and an hour-long appointment. Maybe this will at least set us on the right path. It’s amazing how backwards our medical system [...] There is nothing quite like getting your brain in gear with intensive summer classes after being out of the classroom for nearly 6 years. I’ve spent the past week immersed in gifted pedagogy and am just taking a short break before getting back to homework. My goal, at least for now, is to try to get [...] While I still haven’t heard back from the neurologist at CHOP, C’s pediatrician, or my insurance company, I finally had some success with a local developmental pediatrician. The doctor C was going to see next May was able to get us in sooner. This required a lot of persistence and patience on my part. When I [...] Well, it’s been a week and I don’t have much to report as far as progress on getting a diagnosis. I found that CHOP kept shuffling my neurology request over to behavioral health, which took days to straighten out. When I was finally able to speak to neurology, they said that they would need to hear [...] Well, I was supposed to meet with C’s counselor on Wednesday, but got a call from his office saying they needed to reschedule. Unfortunately, they said he wouldn’t be available until next Friday at the soonest. I asked if there was anyone else I could talk to in the meantime and they set me up with [...] As I mentioned last week, we’ve been having a hard time finding a psychologist that can help C. I complained to my insurance company about the woman who was ready to blindly diagnose him, to which they were largely unsympathetic. While I can somewhat see the psychologist’s perspective (she can clearly see that he needs help [...] After some advice from a reader, we’ve decided to pursue starting OT and PT now rather than wait until next year. We had been hoping C could start over the summer, but found out at the last moment that they only offer those services to kids who qualified for special education. So, we have already found [...] It’s a week later and I’m still frustrated. I probably would have felt a bit better by now, but received a long e-mail yesterday from C’s school reiterating how he’s too distracted to be productive and also recommending I drill him with flash cards over the summer because he is behind in memorizing math facts. I [...] |
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