I could not find and OHI message board because thats what my child has. She has other learning disorders also but OHI is her big one. She just got dignoised with OHI 1 month ago and the doctor still has not told us what OHI is. They just told us it is a major learning disorder is children. She is in the 7th grade at a regualr school and is in special education all day expect choir and lunch. The things she is really struggling with is math(adding 3 digt numbers with regrouping), English(ALL parts of speech, adding vowels and constants on ends,middle,beginning of words). She struggles with just about everything in school but those are her two major struggle issues. She can sing just beautiful in choir! I am just so amazed and very proud of her for joining choir and her pasion to sing! She has a very diffucult time in PE while other kids are playing she cant move fast enough to join into the game. Plus she has asthma. So her special ed teacher and the “regular ed” teacher just lets her bounce a basketball back and forth to them after she runs 6 minutes with the other children, which she has an asthma attack. Also she is pysical delayed, speech delayed and handwritting delayed. She sees a speech therpaist in school Mondays and Thursdays. She sees a physical therpaist in school on Wensdays and an OT therapist on Mondays also. She has been in special education since pre-school and she is now a 7th grader. If any of you have children like my child please post. My 1st child is gifted and she is in 10th grade so its very hard to treat them diffrently and raise them diffrently. Thanks! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Nancy is right- OHI means “other health impaired”. One definition: “having a chronic or acute health problem resulting in limited strength, vitality or alertness that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.” Kids with ADHD often qualify for services or accomodations under OHI since the condition can be considered to “limit alertness”. Please ask your doctor to explain in terms you and your daughter can understand.
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Also with the reading problem seems like it would be a good idea to have a learning disabilities evaluation.
—des
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I’d get an educational eval. The “OHI” qualifies her for help — you need a good grip on just what help she needs, regardless of what they call her problem.
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If she is in a self-contained special ed. class, she obviously has been evaluated previously. What was the classification used by the school on the IEP before the doctor gave you the OHI diagnosis?
Janis
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I have never heard OHI to be considered a diagnosis. It is a category on Individual Education Plans (IEPs) to qualify a child for special ed. It’s sortof the catchall catergory for IEPs and could mean anything.
Shame on the school for not explaining things adequately. What else are they not telling you, I wonder?
Others here may be more knowledgeable, but as far as I know OHI simply means “Other Health Impaired” and is a designation used by schools to qualify a child for special education services. It is not a specific learning disability.
I have worked with a couple of very delayed children who function on the level you are describing. In general, I would recommend doing the following, if you haven’t already: (1) get a developmental vision evaluation and (2) get an auditory processing evaluation. Also, I would recommend starting Audiblox (http://www.audiblox2000.com ) if you and your daughter can work together daily for an hour per day. These are all reasonable steps to take. My bet is she would benefit from more OT than once a week, also, and there are some good general bodywork programs you could do at home with her daily.
Does your daughter have exercise-induced asthma? If so, there are very effective medications and inhalers that allow normal participation in sports activities.
Nancy