i have a 9 year old boy who has developmental coordination disorder and we live in great britain i just went on the nhs direct website and typed in emotional problems and it come up with adhd he has had major problems in school since he started in nursery school but his behaviour has got a lot worse since year 2 he is know 5th year and we are having loads of problems and when i read the sytoms of this disorder i have highlighted more than 98% or the sytoms as problems we and the school are dealing with on a day to day thing
i was wondering if any one who is a parent of a child about the same age as my son could help me understand ways in which i can help my son for over 4 years know i have requested pysiatric help for my son with out any luck he is in mainstream school which is becoming more and more of a problem
thanks to anyone who can help me
Hiya Janet, im also in the uk and have had concerns about my son who is now 12 for the past 6/7 years.
I was just wondering have you contacted your own GP about your 9yr old son as he/she can refer you to the specialist. Also have you contacted the educational pyscologist who can do an assessment on his learning abilities? I did both of these when my son was 9 and found out that he does have a learning disability which believe me has made life so much easier because i can now try and understand things better. He is now in high school and has not shown much progress so once again we are going through the process of seeing the specialist and having another assessment done on him by the educational physocologist. I now have concerns that he could have ADD and Dyslexia.