[senco-forum] ADHD

or - to be controversial - fluoride, and strengthen the teeth of everyone!
Analogy can be two edged as can treatment.

Jeff (generally pro careful assessment and treatment!)

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In your message regarding Re: [senco-forum] ADHD dated Sat, 24 Feb 2007
16:38:40 -0000, Philip MacMillan said that ...

> Horses and water - you can always put salt in the feed.

> Philip EP
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> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] ADHD

> >
> > "We also  have to accept that not all children with challenging behaviours
> > have ADHD  and work with their psychologists, psychiatrists and other
> > specialists to  find the way to help them to change, because change can
> > only take place  when the child is motivated and accepts that they have
> > certain  responsibilities.  Horses and water come to  mind..."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > To my mind that would depend on their having been fully assessed for other
> > learning difficulties...that would be my first port of call before seeking
> an
> > ADHD diagnoisis...all too easy to blame the child. I read someewhere that
> 80%
> > of  inmates at penal institutions have reading difficulties at the very
> least,
> > and  many were often not diagnosed with anything.
> >
> > Perhaps change in the child is not always what's needed, but in people's
> > attitude to the child, leading to accurate diagnosis and the right sort of
> > support, as even a seemingly minor learning difficulty can be the tip of
> the
> > iceberg and have a major impact on a child, -educationally, socially and
> on  their
> > self-esteem.
> >
> > It is hard enough for eloquent parents with high qualifications and
> > intelligenced to get the right help for a child, imagine how hard it is
> for a  parent
> > with less than adequate advocacy skills to take on the system,
> specially  -as
> > is often the case- these are inherited difficulties; also for the child
> with
> > parents who do not even realise their child has any problems and would nto
> > even  think to push for the diagnosis they need. Even the best parents
> will
> > often  accept what the schools say about their child even if the child
> tells them
> > different. And there are some parents who just don't care enough.
> >
> > Often schools see behavioural issues as just that, a child is branded a
> > troublemaker even at infant level and that label follows them and no more
> is  ever
> > done; the child becomes a defiant teen, acting up to the name they have
> been
> > given as fighting it hadsn't helped.
> >
> > The rest is history and another life down the toilet....all for the sake
> of
> > looking a little further.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Aly
> >
> > Chair Auditory  Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
> > www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm
> > www.apduk.org
> >
> >
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