Hi hope you dont mind me posting such a lengthy long first posting but we need help or ideas !!
I have 8 year old (identical) twin boys, ( born 8 weeks early) both developed a little slower for the major milestones (as expected by being this premature), but had no other health or obvious development problems until the last 6-8 months..
In september 2009 they went over to the junior school and since then, while one twin is developing and maturing well, the other twin has run a catalogue of behavior, concentration and challenging authority problems at school.
Both boys are bright, have a good full vocabulary, are interested in science, cars, pop music and computers & play-stations...riding bikes and have had first girlfriends. Are above their age in reading skills & vocabulary but below there age in handwriting skills.
But the one twin is having so many behavior,concentration and challenging behavior problems at school- and his recent activity involves walking away while being talked to or told off- we feel at our wits ends. And we feel he is about to get an exclusion>When he is not displaying this challenging behavior at school he is feeling sick at school and wants to come home from school, or has stomach aches and doesn't want to go to school. ( these have been checked out at doctors with no lasting symptoms)
Over the years school's have mentioned dyspraxia, but this was was never followed up. (Both boys have IEP's for handwriting and not getting on with their work and respect to adults).
BUT to sum it up, it appears he doesn't listen, or he appears to day dream, or not get on with his work and chat to his friends or fix a chair or open windows..anything but get on with his work.If the subject interest him he can come up with some fabulous and clever ideas & answers....
We have taken him to see his GP and he is finally being referred to a development clinic, i have searched the internet and feel he either has an undiagnosed hight IQ, or has attention deficit with out the hyperactivity, or does he have a form of Autism or asperges as mention by the GP... help we seem to be going around in circles any ideas ????
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mumNR · 14/06/2010 23:06
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