ADD/ADHD Process

[~me~]

That is really helpful myturn.

After discussions with my DH last night, we are not going to fill the Ritalin prescription just yet.
He goes to a Catholic Primary School. Your suggestion of school psychologist is perfect as I think the school does have one and as we have the diagnosis of ADHD, they would be more than willing to refer us to them.

His main problem is distraction and not being able to sit still. He was a little behind for the first couple of terms last year, we just worked a lot harder with him and made some headway towards last term with help from his teacher.

My husband is extremely wary of Ritalin and feels it should be an absolute last resort. We are going to try Fidgets and perhaps the sensory cushion as well.

I will PM you as well, as we would definitely consider a private psychologist if the school could not help in that regards.

[~*familyof3*~]

Hi H,

My eldest son has ADHD. And as myturn said a child psychologist would do a cognitive assessment, we also worked close with the school based one, who spent one on one time with our DS. Again as myturn said Im not sure why you didn't have to do a psychologist assessment before you were given a diagnosis......we had the cognitive assessment plus a psychologist assessment and some other things too before our paed would even diagnose DS. Will try and pull out our paperwork later to let you know what tests we had done.