Overall, my wife and I are extremely disappointed. We wasted time and money just for them to tell us what we already knew. We got no referrals, not help, and no “what do we do next” answers. The end product of over a year of waiting for appointments was no help and no closer to getting help for our son.
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Our son has Sensory Processing Disorder. We started this process over a year ago by getting a referral from our pediatrician. It took eight months to get an appointment with the OT, ST, and Nutritionist. The Psychologist should have been included in the appointment, but they were sick. The three individuals who did his assessment agreed with some of the items we have difficulty with, but offered no actual advice or referrals to get my son help. His largest struggle is focus in school especially once he gets frustrated. It took an additional 3 months after that to see the Psychologist, whom we believe misdiagnosed our son. The Psychologist Eva Markham diagnosed ODD. We were surprised by this, because he didn’t seem like that to us. We ended up filling out a BASC 3 Analysis along with his teacher and the analysis doesn’t support ODD at all but does support our original issues we brought to them which are primarily Anxiety. When we asked “what’s next” or “what do we do now” we were told nothing. There was some kind of therapy (I cannot remember what my wife told me) that my wife asked about and she said he cannot do that until he is 8 yrs old (currently 6). We researched online and he could have started at age 3. After a year of waiting and putting our son through a bunch of tests and analysis that he now is starting to understand what’s going on we have no help, no referrals, and we know nothing new that we didn’t know already. We now are back to square one in trying to find something to help our son and have paid money for them to misdiagnose him and tell us information that we already knew.