While continuing to wonder about conversations
I am now wondering how family members receive conversations about their
children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
When searching for articles online I came across this one:
This is an article written by a
parent who has a child with ODD. She
describes multiple tough situations that she had to overcome being the parent
of this child and how she was lucky it didn’t affect her marriage. At the end of the article she mentions how
relieved she was the first time someone had told her that they knew what she was
going through with her child. Following
the end there is a place for people to comment and from reading the comments I
have noticed that most people feel the same way. They are happy that they are not the only
ones going through situations like these and that they are able to talk to people
who have a family that is similar to theirs.
After reading this article I had
my family member read it to see what her reactions were. She agreed with most of the feelings that
people were saying they had. She felt
hopeless and it was very difficult when people didn’t understand what she was
going through.
I believe in order to communicate
with the family the teacher needs to know information about the disability or
disorder. For a disorder like ODD the
child acts normal to people who are not close to them such as, the public, but
tests the people are close to them. Only
a person who knows and understands ODD will understand this making it very
important for the teacher to know about information such as this and any other
disorder or disability that she or he comes across.
This blog has led me to wonder if
there are any articles that written by a person with ODD. I will have to do some digging to find this.
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