Wayne Said:

Teachers & Doctors can not agree on my son?

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If he doesn't have ADD, then the ADD meds aren't going to do any good. Teachers may well recognize an ADD kid when they see him, but if the diagnosis doesn't match up to the teacher's guess, I'd go with the diagnosis.

I would have him evaluated for learning disabilities. Even if he's not ADD, it sounds like there's something there that needs to be addressed with different learning strategies.

Also, when you write out a post that long, break it into paragraphs. Your post is very hard to get through.

Bernard Said:

Teachers/Doctors/Occup. Therapists (please help)?

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I work with children in anursery seting and you ar quite right it is in the childs bes intrests to attend her thearpy sessions, however the best advice I coud give to you is jsut to role model and use langauge around her, I have found a nice website that may be of help http://www.speechdelay.com/testrosettlanguagedevelopment3.htm
If it is possible contact your stepdaughters school, to try and contact a speech threapist to visit her at school.

Also if you live in England google early support, and browse the website in familie you wil find speech and langauge difficulities it may be of some helphttp://www.earlysupport.org.uk/decMaterialsZone/modResourcesLibrary/StreamRenderer/Speech%20and%20lang%20Nov%2006%20reprint.pdf

Walter Said:

4 yr old with speech delay...suggestions??

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I would definatly try to find out if she has a more specific diagnosis...it sounds like she may have apraxia, and that is causing the garbled speech.

This seems to be a major issue for her, and might be the basis for a change in custody...this might even be considered neglect on the mother's part!!

to help her communicate with you try the "signing time" DVDs. they are excellent at teaching sign language, and fun for the child ( and not babyish like baby einstein) and the adults in the child's life. The website is www.signingtime.com. They even have support materials like flash cards, board books, and music CDs of the songs from the DVDs.

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail and I will tell you a few things that my speech therpist did to test my son for a diagnosis...and some of the things we did to help him.

Vernon Said:

my son has a Speech and other problems?

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Some of the things you mentioned are probably just the child's personality such as his caring about doing things right, not messing up, pleasing people, taking care of things, etc. He may have some dyslexia as there are several forms. You might look at www.amenclinics.com and see if you can find some information there as Dr. Amen touches on several brain disorders. The Stuttering Foundation of America can help with the stuttering. As a former educator, I have seen children similar to what you describe; they were all highly intelligent and did very well for themselves as I followed them through school and their careers. You might be interested in reading about Al Garnto, an artist in Georgia who has a form of dyslexia that wasn't discovered until he reached college.