All About ADHD : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Mods, think this one should go under "Work with your child"?? instead of this thread.
bellej, perhaps you should ask the teachers for more symptoms before concluding if help should be sought for suspected ADHD.
Also, if you feel that it is not so, this should be communicated to the teacher, stating the reason why, like what you share with us. The teacher should not mistaken a lack of understanding of what he/she wants as ADHD. -
what are your girl's preschool teacher's feedback about her?
teachers/school should only make the comment of ADHD after observing the kid for 6mths; now is only 2 weeks :roll: -
Only doctors can give clinical diagnosis like that. Not teachers.
Being unable to complete assigned tasks is only like a puny bit
to it. Besides a true teacher will not label so blatantly outright…
Not even into a month before your child is with the teacher, oredi
dis kind of assessment arh… your poor kid. Did she say it to your
child, or were you called up and notified over the phone, or did u
hafta meet up with the teacher personally for this issue… Need
more insight to this issue of yours. Even for fair tuition assessment
at least kena give tutor 3mths to show results… or the next big exam
whichever is earlier… this one only into two weeks… unless though u
have encountered pre-school teachers commenting somewhat similar
comments like that… More details pls! Dun complain anything yet for
now.
Let’s brainstorm and discuss. Complaining without knowing the real
reason behind this will make things worse. Back yourself up with more
research, your own personal assessment, doctor’s assessment if need
be… feedback from pre-school teachers… current teachers… and also
find out if your child actually has difficulty attempting the assignment due
to shortage of time given… didn’t understand the lesson… distraction… (etc)
Two periods can be 45min lesson then suddenly rush 15min writing time!
Do talk to your child again… and gather more information from the teacher
with regards to your last conversation pertaining to this. Hear from you, soon dear…
Stay calm. -
Hey, don't worry about it! That's exactly what my son's teacher told me when she could not teach my son. She then told the vice principal, then the principal. I refused to believe them. They then forced me to get a diagnosis on my son. After spending $3000+, the psychologist confirmed that he is not ADHD. Wasted all those money. I then told them he is more likely to have asperger, a high order autism. After almost 1 year, the MOE psychologist confirmed my finding.
Do some research on what exactly is ADHD before spending all those money and tears. How can a teacher, who has hardly 2 weeks with your kid diagnose him with ADHD?! Only you know your child the best.
I would suggest that you read up a little about ADHD. There are quite a few symptoms to it. Then, have a chat with the teacher. For all you know, it might just be stress due to a change of environment.
I think our teachers need a lot of education in the area, especially now that so many children are having learning difficulties.
Perhaps start here? http://helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_signs_symptoms.htm -
Alamak. We also went through the ADHD, CAPD, Dyslexia (he was looking for a pattern with the alphabets so he couldn’t "read" it out), Aspergers route. Teachers are too eager to label, and psychs have all sorts of "suspicions". It takes a detailed test to prove otherwise, and lots of $. I didn’t bother except for the last one - a screening was done without my knowledge. But frankly I knew deep in my heart and from doing research that it wasn’t true.
If you’re very sure, just roll your eyes and stick with your gut. Parents are often right. -
I also dun like to label kids so soon. Sometimes i feel that its an easy way out just to label. Come on, its only the 9th day in the p1 life and can tell that it is ADHD? Better talk to the teacher and do more observation on ur child. The trs in the sch with special needs training might be able to shed more abt it. Observe the child for a longer period of time. It could be many factors that ur child cant manage to finish the work.
Be positive and stay calm, things might nt be that bad. -
I’m a teacher trained in special needs and to be able to even refer the child to MOE’s educational psychologists for assessment, we need to build up a case.
Building up cases involve many procedures and many ppl.
Written reports/observation by all teachers who teach the particular child. Detailed incident records, survey/interview with teachers, peers and the student himself/herself. Parents also need to give background about home environment, schooling history, traumatic experiences when younger, medical history, etc.
And to be able to gather enough evidence for it to be reliable, it needs to be over a span of at least 2 months. And it’s not at the end of 2 months but consistently throughout the 2 months.
All you can do now is to ask the teacher for evidence of written observations given by all subject teachers.
They may send your child for tests without informing you. If you want to be kept inform, you have to highlight to them that all tests/assessments need your written approval. -
mrswongtuition:
The problem is, some teachers find certain kids so hard to handle, and they find it so difficult to put up a case, that they take the easy way out. They do something drastic and then ask the parent to chip in the money and get the diagnosis done. Just some black sheep out there. But I met one. What a costly thing to do to us! It was only I sent in many complaints that the school finally allocated some support, instead of asking me to provide psychologist support, teacher aide, etc etc. I was beginning to feel like I was MOE...I'm a teacher trained in special needs and to be able to even refer the child to MOE's educational psychologists for assessment, we need to build up a case.
Building up cases involve many procedures and many ppl.
Written reports/observation by all teachers who teach the particular child. Detailed incident records, survey/interview with teachers, peers and the student himself/herself. Parents also need to give background about home environment, schooling history, traumatic experiences when younger, medical history, etc.
And to be able to gather enough evidence for it to be reliable, it needs to be over a span of at least 2 months. And it's not at the end of 2 months but consistently throughout the 2 months.
All you can do now is to ask the teacher for evidence of written observations given by all subject teachers.
They may send your child for tests without informing you. If you want to be kept inform, you have to highlight to them that all tests/assessments need your written approval. -
2ppaamm:
ask the parent to chip in the money and get the diagnosis done. Just some black sheep out there. But I met one. What a costly thing to do to us! It was only I sent in many complaints that the school finally allocated some support, instead of asking me to provide psychologist support, teacher aide, etc etc. I was beginning to feel like I was MOE...
Not restricted to black sheep but rather a common strategy adopted by school?
A relative of mine had similar encounter. Her son's case was put on hold for soooo long. She waited and waited for close to a year & finally kicked a fuss with the school for brushing her son's case under the carpet & wasted so much time instead of rendering help as soon as possible, the school told her to engage external pyschologist if she wanted it fast!
After numerous complaints, the school finally reluctantly arranged for a psychologist to see her son. Don't know what kind of tales the school told the psychologist, she was being ticked off by the psychologist for being 'difficult' when she brought her son for assessment. Somehow she was projected by the school as uncooperative & a miser trying to save some penny by refusing to pay for an external pyschologist :shock: A totally unpleasant experience. She subsequently switched her son to another school. -
[quote]Building up cases involve many procedures and many ppl.
[/quote]Ah...Now I know why I waited, teacher promise & nothing happen yet. Teachers talk among themselves, call me up all the time & pester me for help. They know I have a problem child whom I myself can't cope, yet nobody wants to take the initiative or even raise a case when I ask her to do so.
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