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Hello

My son was diagnosed with Asperger's at the beginning of this school year, and was diagnosed with ADHD when he was 4years old. He just turned 9 years old. He has been taking ADHD medication since he was 4. He also has to take medication to help him sleep.He has social problems. He does not like loud noises and get distracted and frustrated really easily. He has problems with his writing. When he is writing he will get stuck on writing a letter and keep tracing it over and over, sometime he will eventually tear through the paper. He can't keeping his writing in between the lines on his paper. He will have his letters three lines high. He doesn't know the difference between a second a minute,or an hour. He doesn't know the difference between a day, a week, or a month. My son does not sleep well at night, every since he was a baby he didn't sleep much. He will go to bed sometimes a 11 or 12 and wake up at 3 or 4 and not go to sleep until the next night. That is with him on the medication. Without the medication he would go to bed between 1am an 3am.The school that he goes to will not put him on an IEP, they did put him on a 504 plan. The school has handled his writing by having someone else write for him if it is more than a one word answer.
I recently went to a Autism Expo and Conference an I learned a lot from it. I learned that there is help and hope out there.You just have to find the right doctors. I just don't know what direction that I need to go. My son's pediatrician will not listen to me when I talk to her. She acts as though these things that I am saying on here is not a problem and has no concern. She just hands over the meds and says take these. At the conference that I went to I learned about all the different types of therapy that I could put my son in. The only thing is, is you have to have doctors referrals to get in these therapies. I know I need to find him a new doctor but I don't know where to go. I was told about a doctor in Tipp City, Ohio but is not covered by insurance. And the doctor visits are $200 and some dollars a visit. The people at the conference call these doctors DAN doctors. I don't make a whole lot of money. I know that there are grants or scholarships out there for families with ASDs but the requirements say that the child has to be on an IEP for a year.
But as I said before the school won't put him on an IEP. Does anyone know of any other DAN doctors in Ohio? Or any other suggestion on what I should do?
Thanks for your time.

Welcome to the Wrong Planet

I cannot know as I'm not a parent or a child, but I imagine you'd be most interested in Parent's Forum and you'll find lots of friends, I know. Especially, there are applicable resources, such as the 'recommended clincians' thread. http://www.wrongplanet.net/forum19.html

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