Did the NP diagnose her on one visit only? The art of diagnostics is tricky, confounding, and often like peeling away layers of an onion.
What may appear as ADHD may eventually be teased out to anxiety - or even a side effect from an inhaler (random example). I would never diagnose spectrum disorders (mind you NVLD is not - nor is it recognized in the current DSM) without multiple visits along with checklists from teachers, parents and other caregivers of significance.
That being said, I have talked to clients about NLVD as a possibility. With this, I usually see a cluster of physical issues (as you described with your DS), coupled along with some social peculiarities (as opposed to significant impairments as with ASDs), and in the absence of significant rigidity, emotional lability, and/or obsessed area of interest (that seems beyond typical).
Because there is no set guidelines for NVLD, it remains an unclear diagnosis...sometimes used as "Aspergers Light" and other times used to cluster together a host of delays void of social of emotional delays.
Last edited by Evemomma; 08/19/12 05:34 AM.
