On Jul 1, 10:46=EF=BF=BDam, Nan <Badmam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:33:35 -0400, "Sue" <sburke9...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
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> >"Stephanie" <nothanks.nevergonedoit.com> wrote in message
> >> That sounds backward to me. A UTI test is a no-brainer. "Behavioral"
> >> =EF=BF=BD>issues are less cut and dried.
>
> >It is backwards. You always rule out medical first. Then if is nothing
> >medical then you can safely work on the behavioral. If it is medical
and=
you
> >are treating it as behavioral, then you are possibly making things
worse=
..
>
> Exactly. =EF=BF=BDAs a child I was told, "Start paying attention!" when
I
> would say I didn't hear what my mom said. =EF=BF=BD Later, she took me
to=
an
> audiologist and discovered my hearing test failed in both ears due to
> excessive wax build up. =EF=BF=BDOnce it was taken care of, I heard
fine.=
=EF=BF=BDMy
> mom felt pretty bad about puni****ng me for not paying attention.
>
> Nan
All 3 of my kids have had times where I noticed they were possibly
tuning me out, so I would sneak up behind them, whisper something in
each ear at differing times and rub my fingers together next to their
ears from behind them to see if they could hear those sounds to rule
something like that out. lol.
I had a 1st-grade teacher tell me that my son needed his eyes checked
because 1st grade is when children commonly need gl*****, despite
their kingergarten-entry eye exams. My son was playing with his right
eyebrow as he read and she believed this meant he was having vision
problems. I explained to her that he does not do this when we are
sitting on his bed or on the couch or floor when he reads, only when
there is a table surface of some sort on which he can rest his elbow,
once he could rest his elbow there, he would play with his eyebrow,
and it was mostly because he was one who didn't like to sit still - it
offered movement. She wouldn't leave well enough alone, so I wound up
taking him to the doctor just to get her off of our cases. Sure 'nuf,
his vision was and still is fine - after a $150 eye exam.
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