Yes Horse Girl is active. Yes she is distractable. She mainly has problems reading and speaking. She also has trouble with concitancy when it comes to holding on the knowledge she works so hard to get.
The ADHD specialist says there is no way that Horse Girl is ADHD because it is Horse Girl's Tempral Lobe that has the problems, not the Frontal Lobe. There is such a thing as Tempral Lobe ADHD, but the symptoms are clearly not Horse Girl.
The ADHD specialist talked to the Neruopsychologist and found out that she has a template she uses to write every report she writes and she recomends medication for every kid who gets any ADHD diagnousis even when it is subclinical and when she said verbally that she wouldn't medicate the child. The ADHD specialist told the Neruopsychologist that she was harming kids by doing this because schools could say to parents you aren't medicating your child like the neuropsych said in her report even though she said something else verbally and then the parents went on to and ADHD specialist who also said that the child shouldn't be medicated. That one sentance in a report could cause problems for a kid years down the line. The Neuropsych didn't get that and said it shouldn't matter if the child is doing well in school.
That is the thing Horse Girl isn't doing well in school, but none of it is ADHD related it is all phonological processing, reading, writing, grammer, basically everything related to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia.
I told one of the teacher's at Horse Girl's school about the ADHD specialist saying Horse Girl doesn't have ADHD and she was like, well she gets distracted and she is active. Well for some reason people don't want to realize that a person can be active and distractable without being ADHD. If you check out some of the worst cases of Dyslexia which is a learning disablity that does take place in the tempral lobe. One of the symptoms is "abnormal distractibility, "twitchiness" and hyperactivity" which is Horse Girl to a T.
Here is a list of symptoms of Dyslexia, one of the most consice:
"The specific peculiarities that characterize dyslectic reading are as follows:
- difficulty with sound-symbol matching
- disregard of punctuation
- omission or inappropriate insertion of functors
- omission of syllables in multisyllable words
- poor phonetic decoding skills
- poor comprehension in oral and silent reading
- poor letter-sequencing in spelling and reading
- omitting or miscalling syntactical endings such as -ed, or -s
- lack of phonemic awareness
- substituting semantic criterior for phonetic criterior: ripped for torn, large for big, etc.
- confusion of similar-looking abstract words, such as form and from
These kinds of reading mistakes are peculiar to dyslexia. they are not made routinely by children who are merely slow, disinterested in reading, emotionally disturbed, or undereducated.
In the dyslectic person a variety of non-reading problems, co-occur with poor reading. These are also problems for which no other cause such as retardation, social or medical factors, is apparently present. These include:
- left-right confusion
- difficulty remembering ordered lists, such as the months of the year
- difficulty remembering a group of unrelated facts like the multiplication table
- deficit in tactile localization skills
- markedly slow interhemispheric transfer time
- abnormal distractibility, "twitchiness" and hyperactivity
- problems with fine motor control in handwriting
- visual problems associated with motor control of the eyes: lack of smooth tracking, lack of smooth convergence, unstable ocular dominance, intermittent mismatched focusing and poor stereopsis at the midline."
The ADHD specialist we are seeing is amazing. She really wants the label of ADHD off Horse Girl's record so it won't hurt her later and she is lining up some of the best doctors in the field to help us get something that that accually fits Horse Girl.
So all this is causing me major frustration and depression.
The depression is a mix because I feel bad that I past these genes to my daughter and because it is so hard to get the right answer.
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I understand the guilt - but if it gets too much, please remember that you had no control over whether that gene passed on or not. None. Plus, you are doing everything in your power to take care of the situation. Horse girl is LUCKY to have a mom who knows exactly what she is going to go through in school and in life. You and only you can understand that so completely. You will be able to teach her how to use her strengths and overcome her disabilities. You have done it without any such help. There is no better advocate for her than you :-> Try to focus on that when the guilt and depression worm their way in. Hugs.
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