ph, in canada

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Hi ph, in canada!

Great to read your update! Its amazing how things can change over

time.

Here, in Ottawa, French Immersion programs recieve extra money to

keep kids in the programs! I'm very suprised that they are not

keeping the aides until high school - or until graduation. Did you

check this with the school board? Maybe a civil rights things here.

I like having siblings in the same school, if for no other reason

than to keep an eye out for each other! Unfortunatly for us, it

rarely happens - and they are in three separate schools in 3

different areas!

We too are psych. shopping again for tom. There is such a lack of

up to date professionals around here. The hospitals are being

amalgamated and supposedly the best are being kept on - well since

most are mediocre, i'm hoping there is more to the criteria than

being considered 'the best' - like updating their credentials!!

I had a similar incident with a psychologist recommending very

innapropriate advice. They professional board said they can not

monitor a specific 'method' of treatment. ya right. I wonder if if

, or any other child, had been prescribed something

incorrectly, if they would have been so passive at the hospital. It

should have been taken to the ethics committee!

I loved your swimming suggestion for our 'less then clean kids'! My

mom used to send my sister to swimming lessons, i have a feeling that

her motive was not entirely for the sport of it!!

Take care, ph. New year, new beginnings!

wendy in canada

--- " J.M. Schreiber " wrote:

.... My son is not officially diagnosed as OCD though at his

worst he has had all the symptoms. He has been diagnosed with

depression, bipolar and the current report says Generalized Anxiety

and ODD (Oppositional Defiant). But, in the New Year, I am

psychiatrist shopping again, at the school's request as his ongoing

care at the Children's Hospital here was discontinued when their only

recommendation for him, a special needs class, was refused on the

basis that he wasn't receiving therapy or medication -- duh!

.... So the teacher wants a psychiatrist to act as a liaison as we

make decisions for junior high next year.

.... For a while it looked like the French Immersion Junior High would

be a perfect fit, but since students can no longer be assigned aides

at that level he may have a problem without external support.

.... I must say it has been good to feel like I am getting my son

back. is on the whole much happier than he has been in years

and everyone notices it. His younger sister is now in a special

needs class for learning disabilities and is thriving. Fortunately

the class is in the same school so the kids are able to go to school

together and apart from the typical sibling tears, has been

quite responsible looking after Ginny (something I would have

wondered about a year ago).

.... The best method I find for dealing with this is to put him in

swimming lessons which he loves and which assures that he gets wet

and his underwear changed on a semi regular basis.

.... Finally 's comments about her son's psychiatrist were

disturbing.' first psychiatrist who prescribed him all manner

of goodies, got so bizarre by the end that he would fall asleep

during sessions and wake up asking if we wanted to order pizza. I

complained to the hospital but because he was on contract, all they

could do was make note of my complaint. Several weeks later he was

arrested to much publicity and fanfare, for bribing prostitutes with

cocaine.

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