I have an 8year old son who is very anxious/fearful. My son is not the type of child you say to something bad will happen because he literally takes that on and worries about whatever you say.
I recently booked a hypnotherapist to help with his fears, he had one session and the therapist suggested getting my son checked for ADHD, she said he has some traits that children with ADHD have. He is easily distracted, so he couldn’t concentrate during that session, he jumped from one subjected to another.
My son is SEN, a school child psychologist assessed him last year but they didn’t mention ADHD, they just said his vocabulary is not very good which is why he is struggling at school with comprehension, inference skills, poor logical thinking etc. I mentioned to the school SENCO that we were going to have him assessed for ADHD, she said my son doesn’t display any ADHD traits at school, she said ADHD is not something you switch on and off, if he has ADHD, he would show this both at home and at School. So now am confused about what to do, getting assessed is not cheap, my son is struggling at school, that’s why he is SEN, home schooling is absolutely challenging, he is reluctant to do any reading comprehension, any school work that requires reading and writing he finds difficult. He is very good at is spelling, he has an absolutely amazing memory, he can tell you all the tube stations on the London Underground and overground, he can tell which interchanges are at which station, although the psychologist says he has poor memory which affects his reading comprehension.
I am desperate to find a way to help him. I thought there was one assessment that we can do that will help identify if there is any underlying issues, but it sounds like everything is assessed separately which potentially means paying out thousands.
We have a tutor for my son to help him with reading comprehension, we listened in on his lesson last week and it was heart breaking hearing how little he understood, he is in year 4 and will soon finish primary school and it literally feels like the only thing he has learned is reading. He reads fluently and confidently but with no comprehension of what he is reading.
My son is a summer baby, born in July, I have been holding on that as the problem, but as the schools don’t acknowledge this is as the potential cause am wondering if I am just burying my head in the sand a bit.
Has anyone had an experience of this.