What is the situation for Diagnosing ADHD/ADD in the St Helens area? Is it Community Paed or camhs?
Years ago, my son (9) was under the Community Paediatrician as he was showing signs of this. Both myself and the school had similar issues, but the aggressiveness mainly stayed at home. However, after a 5 minute chat with my son (who sat on his hands), and no observations in school, they decided there was no concerns and they discharged him and suggested a parenting course for me !!!!
In school he is always in trouble for being fidgety, can't concentrate, keeps fiddling with things - to the point he's being punished for it. :( Now, I'm all for punishing him when he's being genuinely naughty in class, but, how can they punish him for things he can't help.
The teacher and my son sat down together (I wasn't present) and did an iep and it's got a target of only getting X amount of warning cards before the end of this half term, before christmas. He's already gone past that! (unless he thought the target was a good thing, I don't understand how they were built up so quick).
The school give the impression they have done lots of good things for him but i'm concerned it's just papering over the cracks.
What would you do?