Advice needed- Inattentive ADHD child




	Advice needed- Inattentive ADHD child Hi! My 7 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with ADHD Inattentive and I'm looking for advice from other parents who may have a child with the same diagnosis. Most of the information I've read relate more to treatments geared toward ADHD with Hyperactivity so I'm feeling lost. My daughter is a textbook example of Inattentive ADHD- distracted, daydreamy, inattentive, sleepy/lethargic, poor concentration and slow processing. She also doesn't communicate very well which is really our biggest issue at this point. Most of the time she'll stop talking in the middle of her sentence, either forgetting what she was saying or unable to find the right words to convey her thoughts cohesively. At her age, she still rarely constructs more than 2-3 sentences at a time. I'm wondering if other parents with an inattentive child experience the same thing with communicating with your child? It's so frustrating for her (and me) to watch her struggle with conversations all the time. The psychologist who diagnosed her has been helpful with recommendations for school help but not overall treatment. Do parents send ADHD Inattentive children to therapy, like speech therapy? How do you treat the communication disconnect? We have implemented behavioral remedies for her lack of organizational skills and planning, and her school is developing a 504 plan for her to deal with her reading and writing struggles. But if your child sounds like mine, what things have you done with success that may be helpful to me? Thanks in advance for any advice! sounds like she may have some issues in addition to ADHD....most of us do... Dr. Larry Silver has written some excellent articles and books on learning diabilities and processing issues...you might check out his and others' writings if you are interested in learning from such experts. No substitute, of course, from working with real people in your area who are qualified, caring, and willing to do the diligence required to find out what's going on.... Thanks John for your suggestions. I agree there has to be more going on with my daughter than just ADHD especially since I haven't come across other ADHD kids that don't communicate well. In fact, it looks like most of them talk a lot. I'll check out Dr Silver's information. I'm just learning and absorbing as much as I can right now to do what's best for my daughter. Thanks for taking the time to reply! Here, fyi, is an excerpt taken from page 3 of “Briefing Paper”, a publication of the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, which describes difficulty finding the right words to speak when we’re asked a question. It’s a trait that adds one more additional challenge to our lives, and teaches us early on that people can’t know the full extent of our understanding of a topic if they are only exposed to our initial answer to their question. john http://www.ldaofky.org/Reading%20&%20Learning%20Disabili ties.pdf A Look at Learning Disabilities in Children and Youth by Larry B. Silver, M.D. Reprinted with permission from the Learning Disability Association of Montgomery County, Inc., in Maryland *Output* At the fourth stage, output, there are both language and motor disabilities. Language disabilities almost always involve what is called “demand language” rather than spontaneous language. Spontaneous language occurs when we initiate speaking — select the subject, organize our thoughts, and find the correct words before opening our mouths. Demand language occurs when someone else creates the circumstances in which communication is required. A question is asked, and we must simultaneously organize our thoughts, find the right words, and answer. A child with a language disability may speak normally when initiating conversation but respond hesitantly in demand situations — pause, ask for the question to be repeated, give a confused answer, or fail to find the right words.John D40188.7694097222Thanks again John! I think you are definitely on to something here. I checked out Dr Silver's information and found his correlations between ADHD and possible language learning disabilities very interesting. In fact, I reviewed my daughter's testing report from the Psychologist and I'm shocked he didn't dig deeper to investigate any language learning disabiliites, specifically Expressive Language Disorder and Auditory Processing. She scored very poorly in these areas especially in relation to her IQ score and learning potential. We have a meeting with my daughter's school this week and we are requesting she be tested through the school to address my concerns and determine if she should be seeing a Speech Therapist regularly. We'll see what happens, but I feel more justified in my concerns about her additional symptoms in addition to her Inattentive ADHD. Thanks again for your opinion/advice- it may have sent me on the right path here..... Yeah, sometimes the test analysis isn't as thorough as it could be....I think there's computer analysis designed to pick up on obvious descrepancies...but often the subtleties and "sub-clinical" differences in scores go unnoticed. Your psychologist may have been looking at neuropsychological testing results which are designed more to pick up DSM "disorders"(i think), not learning disabilities. Psychoeducational testing is used to ferret out issues with learning, expression, etc.. keep up your good work and advocacy! 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