New teacher phone conference in the morning-- what to say?

[BeeRae22]

Anyone have any advice on explaining PANS to dd's new teacher?? I find it difficult to explain it simply... I don't want to overwhelm him with information, but I feel it's important for him to understand it-- at least a little bit!

[airial95]

Keep it simple, and relevant to what will happen in the class room. I always describe it simply as rheumatic fever of the brain - response to infection causes neurological symptoms including loss of fine motor skills, cognitivie abilities, OCD, ODD and ADHD tendencies as well as some vocal and motor tics.

 

Period. And then I move on to what they will see in the classroom from my child and how it will impact their ability to learn.

 

If the teacher is interested and asks for more - great, give more info. But they don't really need to know the different treatments (unless its something they have to supervise in class), the different triggers (other than if you're asking them to notify if others are sick in the class), or anything else about it. My experience has been that providing TOO much medical mumbo jumbo also opens the door to discussing the "controversies" and that will give them wiggle room to deny services/accommodations.