ADHD

[finleysmaid]

Can you tell me what your counties attitude to diagnosing ADHD is? just fishing really! 

[Mouseketeer]

We struggle to get past the health visitors who put every concern we raise down as ‘age appropriate’, we had a child a couple of years ago who clearly was, no one would listen, the challenging behaviour was due to every excuse under the sun except what it clearly was, now at the end of reception has been diagnosed ....this is where ‘Early Intervention’ falls down :-( 

[finleysmaid]

58 minutes ago, Mouseketeer said:

We struggle to get past the health visitors who put every concern we raise down as ‘age appropriate’, we had a child a couple of years ago who clearly was, no one would listen, the challenging behaviour was due to every excuse under the sun except what it clearly was, now at the end of reception has been diagnosed ....this is where ‘Early Intervention’ falls down :-( 

but he's managed to get a diagnosis at 5 years old?

The reason I ask is that ours will not do anything until he is 7 but has just diagnosed him.

Ealry intervention appears to mean when they get to year 4 in our area at the moment!

[Mouseketeer]

Yes they have and will also get some funding now for class support.