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does my son hve ad hd

hi let me start from the beginin i hd my son in 2007 his birth was bad he stopped breathing 5 times he was in scabu for  week when he came home if any 1 piked him up he would cry and i had to have a henery hoover under moses basket otherwise he would cry when he started walkin and talkin i started to notice his behaviour was totllay diffrent to my dughter he has out bursts were he just goes mad jumping all over the place he dosent listen to anything anyone tells him he has no fear for danger and no sence of it either he has very short attension span he figets all the time he also hits out and swears he has been to child and adelesont when he was 2  they said it was terrible 2's but as he gets older he gets worse he swears has no respect for any one or any thing he is back at cams next month i have done 1 on 1 parenting course and everything they have asked me to do please help !!!
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973741 tn?1342342773
Hi.  I have something else for you to look into.  It is something that can look very much like adhd in young kids but is a little different.  It is called sensory integration disorder.  My son has sensory integration disorder (also called sensory processing disorder) and was diagnosed at 4 (evaluated at 3 and it was inconclusive, so redone at 4 and it was for sure!).  He too had a traumatic birth.  

Sensory invovles the nervous system and how it responds to the world.  My son is what they call a 'sensory seeker'-------  he is extremely active and at times seems to be climbing the walls.  Sitting can be hard, maintaining focus as well.  His behavior involves outbursts of temper or meltdowns.  He avoids certain things and will be upset about it if made to do it and he craves other things that make no sense.  

The good news?  He is now 7 and doing great.  Once we got the sensory diagnosis-----  we added in all kinds of activities to his day that help keep him calm, better behaved, less volatile, better able to function.   We go to an occupational therapist that works with sensory integration disorder and work on activities to calm his nervous system and behavioral techniques that help him cope and deal with his challenges.  If you google "heavy work" and Sensory integration or processing disorder--------- you'll get a big list of things to do that help slow down an overactive nervous system.  
Here are a few of our favorites:  Swimming.  This gives a combination of deep pressure and hard muscle work which is perfect.  Go to a playground and climb the play structure, jump off (safely), hang on monkey bars, swing (very soothing), run, roll down a hill and run back up,  skip.  Spend at least an hour at a park.  It has lasting calming affects even into the next day if done often enough.  Jump on a trampoline but if you don't have access-----  pull out a mattress and jump on that on the floor at home.  Safe wrestling with a parent in which the child is given deep pressure and uses their body to push back to help create this.  YOu can do this with a big exercise ball in the middle of the two of you---------  you and he push against it at the same time trying to push the other one over (let him win!).  Blowing bubbles.  Chewing a thick piece of bubble gum.  Playing soccer.  Running races.  Wall push over-------- stand at the wall and try to "push" it over.  

"Sensory Processing Disorder" is a good website on the disorder.  Adhd also involves the nervous system---------  so that is why these two disorders can look alike.  In the US, doctors try not to diagnose adhd until the earliest age of 6 due to many wanting to prescribe medication for it and that there is so much variability in kids under 6.  All kids have impulse control issues to some degree before 6---------  that is the magic age that many kids do outgrow some wacky behaviors.  (my younger boy just turned 6 . . . fingers crossed it works for him!  LOL)  But sensory is diagnosed earlier.  Easier to evaluate for and treatment involves this physical work and behavior modification.  So google and see what you think.  Let me know.
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thnk you i never thought of anything else but will bring it up in the meeting
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why is that he is nearly 4 yrs old and his parent worker says they should be able to do the apropriate test i only posted the question to lern more bout it as it runs in the family
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757137 tn?1347196453
Your son is too young to be diagnosed with ADHD.
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oh and he prefers to play alone !
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