Thanks for the commiseration, hardtochoose. It is so frustrating to not know what's going on with your kid. Before he was evaluated, my brother and one counselor had suggested that maybe he has Asperger's, but I never thought he did. The testing psychologist confirmed my instinct by telling me that he is definitely not on the spectrum (she has worked with autistic people for 25 years and also evaluated my younger son, who DOES have autism).
That is great that the school is going to give your son a full evaluation. We usually just find more frustration when dealing with our school. I asked about evaluating him last year (because of his writing issues), and they never did. Then, I thought they might be more willing to do it this year since he has the ADHD diagnosis, but nope. I guess they are doing RTI, but frankly it sucks for us. They put him on a behavior plan for 6 full weeks of school (not counting partial weeks) to determine if the writing thing is a behavior issue or skills issue, then after winter break they will start him in a small group intervention thing and then finally after 6 weeks of that they'll decide whether or not they will evaluate. If they decide to do it, it will be almost the end of the school year by the time it happens. I REALLY wish I could afford private educational testing, or a neuropsychological evaluation or something that might finally give me some accurate answers.
I do have good news--we finally got an appointment at a different place for an OT evaluation. It's the same place he just recently had his speech eval, and I'm hoping they have plenty of experience with sensory issues. It's not for another month, but at least we're not still on the wait list.
My son has been taking Zoloft for a couple years and I was actually thinking that we need to increase his dose, as he has been have a lot more anxiety. I didn't realize increased impulsivity could be one of the side effects. Now I know to watch out for it if we do increase the dose.
Thanks again for the reply, and sorry this is so rambling and disjointed. I'm running on little sleep today.
